A new argument making the rounds claims Europe's major cities have flipped from overwhelmingly native-born white populations in the 1950s to minority-white today, framing this as an unprecedented, irreversible shift.

• Cities like Brussels, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, and Stockholm have gone from 95-98% white in 1955 to roughly 21-65% today.
• The claim is that no country has ever undergone this scale of population turnover before in such a short time.
• At the current pace, the argument goes, within a generation almost no country left in the world would have a native white majority except Russia.
• That exception is tied to the war in Ukraine, with the suggestion that Russia being the last major white-majority nation may be part of why it draws so much global hostility.

Outlook: Expect this demographic argument to keep fueling immigration and nationalism debates across Europe and the U.S., with Russia's war increasingly framed by some as tied to this narrative.