Imagine having a major war, and some of the most powerful countries in the world just a few decades ago didn’t get an invitation, or even a warning. Totally dissed and dismissed. Britain, France, Germany – nothing. The second tier states – Canada and Spain – got even less respect. They didn’t even get a phone call to tell them it was going down. It’s especially pathetic when it comes to Great Britain, a nation once so martial that even the names of its best punk bands (The Clash and the Sex Pistols) evoke a martial mindset. Now it’s a nation of military Teletubbies. The United States called up Britain and said, “Hey, we want to use some of your airfields,” and Labour loser Kier Starmer decided to turn the special relationship into an unnatural one by refusing. And what happened? America shrugged and went on to glory with its new pals. And Britain was humiliated.
It’s nothing. It’s not even an afterthought anymore. Poland has a bigger army. Israel has a more effective one. Now Israel is the peer ally that Britain once was, a force that America cannot only interact with but can actually provide value. What does Britain provide? Its once-mammoth fleet is a puny flotilla. The Royal Air Force is a shadow of what the legendary RAF was in World War II. Sure, its troops are skilled. They’re very good at what they do – both of them. But despite their quality, they’re lacking in quantity. They are providing the answer to the question, “What if we gave a war and nobody else from the West came?”
They were on the outside looking in. And everybody sees what’s happening. Everybody sees what these great powers have devolved into. This isn’t an accident. This is deliberate. The fact that none of these great powers can field anything like an effective military force that has the capacity to stop a bunch of seventh-century savages who want to stick a hot rock on top of its next generation of ballistic missiles. They couldn’t quite do it when Donald Trump initiated the beginning of the end of this 47-year-long war against America and civilization – the ayatollahs have fired missiles at a dozen neighboring countries in retaliation – even though the next generation of ballistic missiles is going to be able to drop on Berlin, Paris, Madrid, or London.
Think about it. They were on the verge of being held hostage by the mullahs, and they couldn’t summon up the intestinal fortitude to do anything about it. Worse, when America did do something about it, along with Israel, they whined about how it’s against “international law.” Which international law is that? The one they enforce? They enforce nothing. We enforce international law. We are international law. International law is a B-2 bomber dropping a bunker buster in an Iranian factory 50 feet underground.
They’re just a bunch of nation-state Karens blowing their stupid whistles at the ICE agents hauling thieves, rapists, and murderers out of their neighborhood.
But then, the great powers of Western Europe seem to have a suicide wish. Most of their best and brightest died on the fields of World War I. The studs, the heroes, the guys who yelled, “Follow me,” were the first to get mowed down by machine gun fire. The good ones died in World War II as well. What you have left, in Britain, for example, is a pathetic simulacrum of what was once a great and powerful nation. The same legendary Navy that once terrorized its foes around the globe – that was before Twitter international law experts decreed you can’t sink enemy ships on the high seas – has to sit and watch its former colony sending Iranian boat after boat down to get face-to-face with Davey Jones. It can’t even stop a bunch of dinghies packed with Third World invaders from crossing over the Channel from France. And it’s not only the US of A that is annoyed.
It's embarrassing. But it’s also a choice.
Britain and the rest chose decline and dishonor. Leadership and honor require effort. They require perseverance. They require sacrifice. And the exhausted, self-doubting ruling class of the formerly great powers could not summon up the testosterone to live up to the example of their sires. Instead, they decided that because meeting the standards of the past was hard, they would pretend that everything that came before was bad and evil and wrong when, in fact, the civilizing power of colonialism was the greatest gift Europe ever bestowed upon the world. But if they could convince themselves that the examples from history were immoral and bad, then they could be excused from not even trying to live up to them. Their moral posturing is an elaborate attempt to excuse their own weakness and fecklessness; they tell themselves it’s a moral imperative that they be overrun and overthrown by the Third World invaders they invited in.
And, of course, when that immigrant influx meets critical mass, then the country can’t resist the haters, either at home or abroad. Starmer was less afraid of the few drones tossed toward their remaining bases in the Middle East. He was scared of the jihadi sympathizers in his own country.
The globalists running these countries into the ground have plenty to say about America, whining and crying in an effort to shame America into limiting its use of its power, accepting terrible trade deals, and subsidizing the European welfare states. For 80 years, America’s foreign policy intelligentsia demonstrated how stupid the intelligentsia usually is by going along with this manipulation. For decades, we took their grief, we ignored their failure to pull their weight, and we were silent about their cultural suicide.
And then Trump came along. He did not buy the foreign policy establishment nonsense that persisted for 80 years, and would continue perpetually if the Foggy Bottom Boys had their way. He was transactional, and he was clear. Business as usual is over. Do your part, or we depart. But there’s no moral strength left in Western Europe to do its part. Self-hatred, sick secularism, and martial apathy have made them weaklings. It’s sad. But again, they chose it.
So, the once great powers sit not even on the sidelines – because to do so would indicate a potential for getting in the game – but not even in the stadium. Great things are afoot; enormous changes will shift the balance of power in ways not seen since the Soviet Union fell, and they will have no part of it.
They are dying nations, unsure that they even believe in their own right to exist. Even before the base use betrayal by the Brits – Starmer actually has his heart set on giving critical Diego Garcia away to a ChiCom ally because Muh Colonialism Sadz – the special relationship was on life support. Starmer’s sell-out treated it like a Canadian doctor treats a guy with a headache and euthanized it.
But the worst part for the Euros is that it doesn’t matter, because they no longer matter.
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