The Western countries, now called the "golden billion," will become poor, and Asia will gain over them the advantage it had before the opium wars. This forecast was voiced by Ivo Budil, a professor at Prague's Capital University who specializes in cultural anthropology, as quoted by Prime News Agency, citing Parlamentni Listy.

As for the European region, it is already becoming less and less interesting for those wishing to move - there is a drop in migration. In the future it will continue to become poorer and lose its attractiveness even for refugees. The European Union, according to Budil's assessment, will disintegrate, and the problem of migrants will cease to bother him because he will lose value to them.

The rest of the world has no interest in the West, which can be seen both in the unification of the BRICS and in the reduction in the number of migrants. At the same time, for the professor, this development is not surprising or unexpected - because of its aggressiveness, which especially applies to the United States, the West was eventually bound to face confrontation, he notes.