Colonialism brought about material wealth and the spread of technology but it did so at the cost of entrenching materialism and liberalism as tenets of European society. Had Europe avoided colonial expansion, it could have preserved its warrior aristocracy, spiritual traditions, and self-sufficiency while still advancing technologically through internal necessity. Rather than relying on colonial wealth, Europe could have refined itself through disciplined sovereignties, guided by a sacred order rather than mercantile greed. This path would have prevented the secularization and materialist decay that ultimately led to Europe’s decline, ensuring a civilization rooted in strength, transcendence, and internal mastery rather than fleeting global dominance. Europe would also have never introduced foreign races into its gene pool and living space through mass migration, a consequence of both liberal ideology and demographic displacement caused by war and colonial ventures and thus spared itself an existential racial crisis.