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The West is in the process of destroying itself from within - and Oswald Spengler saw it coming a century ago. In The Decline of the West (1918), Spengler argued that civilisations rarely perish from external conquest alone. They collapse when they lose faith in their own identity and begin to take pleasure in their own disintegration. Instead of confidently transmitting their traditions, values and achievements, they turn against themselves. They treat their history as a catalogue of crimes, their institutions as systems of oppression, and their core principles as sources of guilt. At that point, they become culturally defenceless. The modern West displays these symptoms with disturbing clarity. Large parts of its elite actively participate in the vilification of Western civilisation. Western achievements in science, law and liberty are reframed as sources of shame. Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is often presented not as a policy to be managed, but as a form of historical atonement. Criticism of this process is frequently treated as morally illegitimate. Spengler observed how late-stage democracies tend to become weak and sentimental. They struggle to defend their borders or uphold their own values because doing so conflicts with their self-image as open and non-judgemental. This creates a dangerous asymmetry: while the West engages in relentless self-criticism, other cultures remain far more assertive about preserving their own identity. Spengler did not believe this process was easily reversed. Once a civilisation loses the will to defend itself, it has already entered its final stage. We are running out of time to prove him wrong.