The quality of mind of European leaders has gone down very badly. And they have no understanding how the world has changed fundamentally and how 12% of the world’s population who live in the West can no longer impose their will on the rest. That is what’s happening. We are seeing the birth pangs of a new order before our eyes.

And incidentally, many of the failed states we see in the world today, whether it’s Libya or Syria or to some extent Afghanistan and Iraq, these are the result of unnecessary Western interventions for which the West has never been held accountable.

And I want you to know that 88% of the world who live outside the West are not stupid. So when the West comes along and says, “Gosh, we are so saintly and virtuous, and the rest of the world, please become like us,” we look at them… when you see an emperor with no clothes.

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As a European I’m actually grateful to Kishore for saying this: he expresses a view that almost everyone in a position of power outside Europe has, but that few dare say.

As a result, people like Macron or Mertz believe – wrongly – that they’re admired by their peers outside Europe when it’s simply not the case: they’re largely seen as self-harming fools who can’t think strategically nor govern properly.

Nothing worse than a fool who doesn’t realize everyone is quietly mocking them behind his back. Kishore is doing  the decent thing by stating the truth plainly.