American neoconservatives and Brussels’ eurocrats have completely misinterpreted the ideas of liberalism and multiculturalism, labeling those who are advocating protectionist and anti-immigration policies or calling into question the usefulness of NATO as “fascists.”

There is an abyss between “fascism” and the rise of nation-states reasserting themselves as “the primary vehicle of political life,” George Friedman, an internationally recognized geopolitical forecaster and strategist, writes in his article for Geopolitical Futures.