I mean we can do business with the descendants of the settled European civilizations of the Greeks and Romans: Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain and France.
Barbarian hordes who barely learned writing until the Middle Ages are just being propped up by Greek and Roman legacy.
No it’s even worse and pathetic. The ancestors of the Anglos who comprise the Five Eyes were considered barbarians by the romans and Greeks, and now they want to LARP as Roman’s and Greeks yet none of them speak Latin nor Ancient Greek and even worse, historically discriminated against modern Italians and Greeks. It’s like the Ghiscari trying to be their Valyrian conquerors in Game of Thrones or modern Jews with ancestry in Germany and Russia, trying to claim descent from ancient Israelites. Even modern hebrew is an artificial language devised by European rabbis who spoke a dialect of German called Yiddish, during the 19th century when nationalism was all the rage in Europe at the time.
Compare this to the values that a modern Chinese would have now compared to a Chinese from the Han dynasty; both practice filial piety, even have the same family shrines and the lighting of incense and read the same Classics in the same language and practice the same cultural values, science and medicine.
In contrast, the modern Anglo let alone modern westerner does not practice the paterfamilias Roman values of the roman era, they do not worship Roman gods, let alone exercise Roman values. Rather, their own ancestors were the equivalent of Indians today supporting Israel.
If you want to see modern Anglo led western values, it is this,
Goldmans argument is that Israel’s mistake was not being feared. In this, he repeats Machiavelli‘s principle that it is better to be feared than loved and like a mirror, this is what prevents the Anglo led west from repeating 1840 to China again; fear of China actually prevents the predations of barbarians.