The masks slip a little more every day and confront us with the horror of the world taking shape before our eyes. It is now impossible not to see the political void, a black hole swallowing up the principles and values that the West, Europe leading the way, claimed to embody. Out of the ruins of two world wars that it spawned, the consequence of unbridled nationalism, Europe built an inspired model to bring peace to relations between sovereign states. Today it is difficult to deny the...