Dire warnings may be overstated, but they identify deeply disturbing trends.
The Brussels Horizon Podcast aired an episode in April titled “The Coming ‘Civil War’ with David Betz.” A widely published Professor of War at King’s College London, Betz warns of the retribalization of Western societies. Mass migration and elite overreach, he argues, have created powder kegs of discontent awaiting the next spark of outrage: a horrific knifing or car-ramming or perhaps an exceptionally unjust judicial ruling. Citing multiple scholarly studies, Betz makes the case that the chances of civil war in the West erupting within the next five years—beginning with civil disturbances comparable with old-style peasant revolts—exceed 50 percent.
