In this episode of the Brussels Signal Horizon Podcast, journalist and historian Dominic Green warns Western Europe may have as little as five to ten years before social cohesion breaks down beyond repair. Drawing on history, demography, and first-hand reporting, Dominic Green explains why mass immigration, institutional failure, and decades of denial are converging into a crisis that mainstream politics and media long refused to confront.
We explore why Europe and the United States are facing different but related dangers, from unintegrated migrant populations and rising crime in Western European cities to institutional decay, political radicalisation, and conspiracy thinking in America. Green discusses why conversations once dismissed as “unthinkable” — civil unrest, parallel societies, and demographic collapse — are now openly acknowledged by police forces, governments, and even U.S. national security officials. The discussion also confronts some of the most disturbing realities of recent years, including the grooming gang scandals in the UK, the collapse of public trust, and the consequences of governments minimising or concealing facts from their own citizens.
Green argues that gaslighting, not disagreement, is what has shattered trust and explains why anger is spreading across generations, particularly among young men who feel abandoned by failing institutions. Green offers a sober assessment of what could still be done, from restoring borders and enforcing laws to addressing the deeper cultural and spiritual crisis behind collapsing birth rates and social pessimism. He argues that civilisations do not always fall from invasion; sometimes they fall because they lose the will to continue.
