For a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s under the daily threat of nuclear annihilation in a bi-polar world of the good guys, the U.S. and our vassal states in Western Europe versus the bad guys, the Soviet Union, China and the Warsaw Pact, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall was surreal. The entire framework of how we understood the world radically changed. While World War II lasted only six years (and one day), the Cold War lasted for around 44 years and was the foundation of our worldview both at home and abroad.
The fall of the Soviet Union should have been the moment of absolute triumph, the “end of history”. At that time China was still a mostly backward agrarian nation and the Soviet Union was now gone, marking the what many of us thought was the final end of the murderous regime started by the Bolsheviks decades earlier.
Instead the winners of the Great Struggle of the 20th century appear on the brink of extinction.
The United Kingdom epitomizes this. The events in jolly old England since the Israeli-Hamas conflict are a great example of this. One news story in particular caught my attention. It had to do with the Prime Minister of the UK sacking/firing the Home Secretary, a high ranking position in British government once held by Winston Churchill. That in itself wouldn’t be all that interesting but the reason for the sacking and the parties involved speak volumes.
The Prime Minister that did the sacking is one Rishi Sunak. Mr. Sunak is of Indian ancestry, born to “…East African-born Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak.”. Here is Mr. Sunak and his family celebrating that traditional English holiday of Diwali.
What a little slice of Britannia right there! Mr. Sunak is the first non-English Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Sure he was born in England to citizens of the United Kingdom but he is certainly not English.
The Home Secretary he sacked is one Suella Braverman, shown below.
Wow. Even by the very low standards of beauty in England, she is homely. Her early life section tells us “She is the daughter of Uma (née Mootien-Pillay) and Christie Fernandes, both of Indian origin, who immigrated to Britain in the 1960s from Mauritius and Kenya respectively.”. Her mother is a Hindu Tamil and her father is a Goan Indian from Kenya. She is apparently a Buddhist and “She took her oath of allegiance as an MP on the Buddhist Dhammapada.”. The Dhammapada is apparently a collection of sayings from the Buddha. How jarring in a land that still has a King that is the head of the Church of England, although it can be argued that the CoE hasn’t been Christian in any sense for a long time.
Also of note, her marriage which will come into play shortly: “In 2018, she married Rael Braverman, a manager of the Mercedes-Benz Group, whom she described as a “very proud member of the Jewish community.” and furthermore “Suella Braverman told The Jewish Chronicle that she has “close family members who serve in the IDF””. Ah ha! We have a Buddhist Indiana married to a Jew serving as Home Secretary for the UK, at least she was. What happened?
Braverman made some comments that were deemed intemperate regarding the pro-Palestinian demonstrations in England, many numbering in the tens or even hundreds of thousands. She was fired for her comments, as it appears that the Israeli war on the civilians of Gaza is less popular in London than it is in the American media. That is what happens when the capital city of what was once the British empire is only about 1/3 British….
From 1948 onwards and especially since the Blair government in the late 1990s and 2000s, the population has diversified in international terms at an increased rate. In 2011, it was reported for the first time that White British people had become a minority within the city, establishing it was a majority-minority city within the country. In 2005, a survey of London’s ethnic and religious diversity claimed that there were more than 300 languages spoken and 50 non-indigenous communities with a population of more than 10,000 in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_London#Ethnicity
Over 50 non-British ethnic groups of at least 10,000 people. That is a recipe for ethnic strife. Meanwhile Scotland, home of William Wallace, has a First Minister named Humza Yousaf, “the son of first-generation Pakistani-Punjabi Muslim Rajput immigrants”. Apparently the British people cannot find any actual British leaders to elect.
What is truly bizarre about this whole situation of a Hindu Indian Prime Minister sacking a Buddhist Indian Home Secretary married to a Jew for speaking out against pro-Palestinian marches in London is how it came about.
Throughout human history, the story has been the same. Stronger people conquer weaker people. While the rhetoric claims that Whites “stole” North America from the Indians, the truth is far simpler: Whites were better organized and had better weapons and there were more of us. England once ruled a global empire based largely on the strength of the Royal Navy and most of the era that led up to the modern times was the struggle between European powers divvying up the world. One of the underlying issues that led to World War I was the desire by some of the European powers who missed out on the colonial land-grab wanting some colonies of their own. I have described most non-European/East Asian people of the world as passive observers of the great powers fighting over territory.
For the last 20 plus years, the West has been slowly conquered but not by superior people or by strength of arms. Instead the West is losing by surrender, apathy and civilizational suicide. One of my favorite quotes on this comes from a book I reviewed and recommended in 2018, Douglas Murray’s The Strange Death of Europe.
Europe today has little desire to reproduce itself, fight for itself or even take its own side in an argument.
That captures the spirit of most of Western Europe and increasingly North America. Having won the war of culture and race, the West seems disinclined to do much to maintain their victory and slowly the conquered people in places like South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South/Central America are taking over the West while the people in those nations mutely and passively sit back and watch. Brief spasms of protest like Trump and Brexit have done little to slow the pace of decline.
We are in the end stages of the Great Surrender that is leading to the great collapse of Western civilization. As the great men of Western civilization fade into obscurity or have their legacy trashed by lesser people that delight in ritualistic humiliation of their long-dead betters, our nations are being ruled by black and brown people acting in pantomime, affecting the dress, speech and manners of Whites like small children wearing their parent’s clothing and playing house. Someone like Rishi Sunak might be able to keep the trains running in the society built by Whites for a time but a nation full of people like Rishi Sunak will not be able to maintain British society indefinitely absent actual British people. Despite the limitations of being a rainy little island, the British built an empire because the British empire was made up of British people. An island like Madagascar is four times the size of England and has a much warmer climate but has never amounted to much because Madagascar is full of the Malagasy people while England was full of Englishmen.
There is no precedence I can think of where a stronger people have been conquered by weaker people because the stronger people just simply gave up.
Western civilization is on the way out with a whimper, rather that a bang, as the strongest people group in the world surrender the civilization we built to people incapable of forming even the most rudimentary societies. It is a shameful end to a proud history and everyone will suffer as a result.