French historian Emmanuel Todd predicted the collapse of the West

The West, led by the United States, is awaiting collapse, concluded Emmanuel Todd, a legendary French historian who predicted the collapse of the USSR a decade and a half before this event. An interview with the scientist is published by Berliner Zeitung.

Emmanuel Todd notes the decline of the West at different levels. If you look not at the GDP inflated by the service sector, but at the real industrial and agricultural production of the West, you can see a huge weakness, he says.

Even more questions are raised by the failures in the field of education, especially in the United States. The level of education in this country has been falling since 1965, the scientist notes. There is a decrease in the number of students, and tests show that the IQ is falling. "Today in America they often train not engineers, but lawyers and stockbrokers. I turned to the numbers and discovered that Russia, with half the population, trains more engineers than the United States,” the sociologist said.