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COMMENTARY: Civil War Approaches, by Rod Dreher – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Rod Dreher, European Conservative, September 15, 2025

Rod Dreher (@roddreher) is a columnist for europeanconservative.com. A senior fellow at the Danube Institute in Budapest, he writes a daily newsletter at  roddreher.substack.com

 

One of the key conditions that King’s College professor David Betz says leads to civil war: an elite radically disconnected from the masses.

Civil war is coming,” David Betz told a Budapest audience on Thursday night. And later: “Sorry, but I don’t think there is a peaceful solution at this time.”

Betz should know. The professor is head of the war studies department at King’s College London and is an academic expert in civil war. For years he has been writing that all the conditions for civil war to break out have been met in most Western countries; all that is needed is a spark.

Betz’s message has gained far more attention this year, thanks to podcast interviews like this one with Harrison Pitt of europeanconservative.com. What makes his warnings especially chilling is that he delivers them calmly, driven by data and logical analysis. He is the furthest thing from a wild-eyed apocalypticist shouting on a street corner. …