Europe’s migration crisis in 2025 has detonated the last illusions of a continent that long imagined itself the vanguard of humanitarian virtue. As asylum systems collapse and nationalist fervor surges, the liberal project itself stands in quiet ruin.

Imagine it: the marbled corridors of Brussels, where silver-haired statesmen once declared that Europe was the custodian of universal humanism. Behind their lacquered doors, they sipped cognac and sketched blueprints of a benevolent empire—an immaculate asylum policy that would redeem the sins of colonial conquest.

In July 2025, the façade crumbled spectacularly. The Economist, usually the velvet voice of Western self-congratulation, sounded the funeral bell. “Scrap the asylum system,” it howled, as if the words themselves would cauterize the rot. But no headline can conceal the truth: Europe’s migration regime has imploded, and with it, the last fragile myth of liberal omnipotence.

Once, Europe proclaimed itself the promised land for the dispossessed: a sanctuary immune to the turbulence it exported. Today, its........

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