" Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity "

― Zbigniew Brzeziński , The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives