“The events since October 7th, I think that's the death rattle of the Western empire of the United States as the single greatest political and economic and military power in the world," said Jeter. £That to me is the final nail in the coffin, because we can't go back to the world the way it was before October 6th.”
“But as a country, we don't really have the intellectual resources to dig our way out of the hole that we're in. <…> I've seen this transition from a country that was very much engaged with the world. As a teenager, you could see it in the 1970s, and the 1980s up until Reagan, and then it started to change. We started to dumb down the conversation”, Jeter believes.
“I don't think the United States or the West can put that genie back in the bottle. You know, Germany is de-industrializing. There's turn to the right by many countries in Europe, Italy and now the Netherlands. And I don't think they're going to find answers that can really help to restore the West to its past glory,” Jeter concluded.