Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic
If a country cannot defend itself from external attacks and will not defend its own internal culture, then that country won’t long last. This isn’t a controversial point, is it? Nations survive when they are capable of securing their borders from invaders who wish to conquer them. Nations endure when they are capable of preserving their own historic cultures. When they can do neither, foreigners take over and either kill, enslave, or convert the locals. That’s human history in a nutshell.
Do you remember when people were handing over their DNA to genealogy-mapping businesses that trace family lineages, and most of the modern inhabitants of Turkey were greatly offended to discover that they are actually Greek? Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan joined other prominent Turks in condemning popular ancestry companies for revealing an uncomfortable truth: Most Turkish citizens are descendants of Bronze Age Greeks whom Islamic peoples from Central Asia conquered. After the Ottoman conquest of their lands, the Greek ancestors of today’s Turks chose conversion over death or second-class social status. Just as the Turks are really Greeks, Egypt’s Muslims are the descendants of Christians, and Iran’s Muslims are the descendants of Persian Zoroastrians. Wherever Islam conquers, the old ways — cultures, beliefs, religions — are discarded and forgotten.
Do you think future inhabitants of Great Britain, Germany, and France will be similarly offended when they discover their own genetic links to the Celts, Gauls, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons? Will they be shocked to realize that their ancestors were once devout Christians? Will they deny the truth of their ancestors’ Islamic subjugation just as Turkey’s citizens do today?
Europe’s “fundamental transformation” (to borrow Barack Obama’s euphemism for totalitarianism) is already occurring swiftly. “Muhammad” is the most popular baby name in the United Kingdom, and it is quickly becoming the most popular baby name across much of Europe.
France and Germany continue to close Christmas markets and cancel public festivals for unstated reasons, but French and German citizens know exactly why the cultural celebrations that they love are disappearing: Islamic terrorists target these events to murder Europeans. European “authorities,” such as they are, are more concerned with Muslims’ feelings than Europeans’ lives.
The Muslim mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, sympathizes with Islamic immigrants who stab locals and tourists but criticizes victims (and those who wish not to be murdered by Islamic terrorists) for being “Islamophobic.” By downplaying the threat of Islamic terrorism and pretending that the greatest danger to Britain is “white supremacy,” Khan is conditioning the British people to accept their subjugation. The Brits used to say, “Keep calm and carry on.” Now they say, “Keep calm and surrender.”
In an ISIS-produced magazine called Invade and within an article series entitled “Terrorize Them!” Islamic State terrorists are urging Muslims to kill British patriot Tommy Robinson. To the best of my knowledge, U.K. authorities have done nothing to protect Robinson from those who wish to murder him. They would rather imprison Robinson for “hate speech” than say anything negative about the bloodthirsty cult that suicidal Westerners defend as the “religion of peace.”
Three weeks ago, a group of men brutally raped a young woman outside the Epsom Methodist Church in Surrey, a county south of London. Police have claimed not to have “sufficient information” to provide the public with identifying characteristics regarding the rapists, but there is widespread belief among the locals that the attack fits the familiar pattern of Islamic rape gangs in the U.K. When local Brits refused to be “politically correct” about the animals raping British women, the Surrey Police released a statement warning locals that law enforcement “will not tolerate disorder” because, as the BBC reported, “This may lead to additional tensions within our local communities.” One infuriated social media commenter responded, “In the UK, without exaggeration, alleged racism is now considered a worse social evil than actual rape.”
In case there are Brits who are still confused, this is how the English will “fundamentally transform” themselves out of existence. As writer Samuel Short inveighed against British authorities’ proclivity for protecting Islamic rape gangs from public backlash, “They would rather leave their country in the hands of barbarians than turn their backs on diversity and tolerance.” Islamic conquerors, Short argues, “don’t need guns or armies to take Great Britain, they’ve captured the minds of natives who are willing to go to their own execution.”
This is how the United Kingdom forsakes its historic heritage and sleepwalks toward the same fate as the Greeks of Turkey. “Political correctness” kills. The people who benefit from “political correctness” conquer. Any questions?
How do European nations expect to survive if they are incapable of defending their own borders? When in the history of the world has a nation flourished because other nations were willing to defend it from conquest? A country that cannot protect itself is either a colony or vassal state. Yet the Europeans have fluttered around for eighty years since WWII depending upon military assistance from the United States.
The Second World War should have provided Europe’s leaders resounding clarity as to the importance of their own territorial security. They scoffed at a weakened Germany after the Great War, and Germany made the nations of Europe suffer for their collective hubris. While the victors of WWI rested on their laurels, the Germans rebuilt their military and conquered. If it were not for the combined efforts of the United States and the Soviet Union, Europe would have gone to the Nazis.
That should have been a profound wake-up call for any civilization that wishes to persist. If you are not prepared to militarily defend your nation, then your nation is on borrowed time.
We Americans are taught in school how important the Marshall Plan was to reinvigorate the economies of Western Europe. We are taught about how vital the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was to keep the Soviet Union’s Iron Curtain from descending upon the whole continent. Still, it is difficult for most Americans to comprehend why the European Union — a federation that has over a hundred million more people than the United States — can’t yet provide for its own defenses. Is eighty years not enough time to rebuild and secure the nations of Europe?
What is it about Europe that puts it in such a state of disadvantage that even with a population four-thirds the size of America’s, it must depend upon America’s military to exist? Could it be that it has spent the public’s taxes on too many welfare programs and too few weapons? Could it be that it has preferred to wage an imaginary war against the weather than to prepare for an actual war against real enemies? Could it be that Europe doesn’t actually want to survive?
Eighty years after being gifted a third chance to live free from the yoke of German tyranny, an unelected European Commission now rules over the continent, and an unelected German, Ursula von der Leyen, presides over the Union as president. What the German “ruling class” learned after Hitler is this: It’s easier to conquer Europe with bureaucracy than with tanks. When European citizens are mostly disarmed and the militaries of European countries are mostly for show, an army of bureaucrats can seize control over everything.
Generations of Europeans have been indoctrinated to be squeamish around firearms. Europe’s “ruling class” regularly disseminates news of “gun violence” in the United States. But the crucial distinction that protects Americans from the same suicidal folly of Europe is the Second Amendment’s protection of our God-given right to self-defense. A well-armed American continent means that ordinary citizens remain at all times prepared to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. A country unwilling to defend itself is a country that will not live.
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