QotD: Rhodesia and the suicide of the West

The history of the twentieth century is a graveyard of nations, but few corpses refuse to stay buried quite like Rhodesia. - QotD

• The story of Rhodesia is not only a regional tragedy, it is a civilisational warning. 

It is the story of a state that was functional, prosperous, and militarily superior, yet was dismantled not by its enemies in the bush, but by the “kith and kin” of its own civilisational bloc. 

• It serves as a controlled experiment in the “Suicide of the West”, illustrating what happens when a civilisation loses the will to defend its own outposts 
• and succumbs to a “politics of cultural despair“...