Every gardener is in a constant battle with chaos. It takes hard work to build planter beds, pull weeds, and fight off the relentless forces of nature that want to take back what the gardener has created.
If a garden wants to survive, its owners must pass on the importance of its maintenance from generation to generation. Without constant maintenance and renewal, a beautiful garden that has lasted for centuries can take over in just a few years.
Empires that replace their armies with foreign recruits have a tragic history of being torn from within.
Nations and empires inevitably suffer the same fate as untended gardens. If common identity is not continually renewed, these political orders will quickly collapse into chaotic struggles of sectarian interests.
The United States is exhibiting all the classic signs of late imperial fatigue. Unless this country finds the courage to once again establish a unified vision, it will be torn apart by the petty squabbles of a sick and dying civilization.
bad omen
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday sought to express condolences to the families of three American soldiers killed in the Middle East last week. She said I “attempted” because this woman could barely form sentences. This skill is generally considered essential for a woman to attain her position.
Although Pierre displays an almost comical level of incompetence, her clowning often has the positive effect of accidentally exposing what our establishment really believes. Jean-Pierre said in his statement that the soldiers died fighting “on behalf of the regime.” Realizing her gaffe, and stuttering a little further, Jean-Pierre quickly added: “And the American people.” But the truth was clear.
A standing army that is personally loyal to a particular ruler or regime rather than to the people or nation is always a bad sign. A military that identifies with a nation is unlikely to follow orders that target citizens or violate shared values. Soldiers who feel like outsiders and share only loyalty to the current ruler are much more likely to carry out orders against the regime’s enemies.
The Biden administration knows this. Its officials used the coronavirus vaccine as an excuse to purge as many conservatives and Trump supporters as possible from the military ranks. The left has been carrying out a slow revolution within the military since the 1990s, but the Biden administration has dramatically accelerated the process of ensuring ideological purity among its ranks.
It’s no surprise what happened next. The military faces a severe personnel shortage after purging many of its most capable fighters over political heresy. Instead of eliminating ideological bias, the administration seems determined to close the gap by admitting more immigrants. Empires that replace their armies with foreign recruits have a tragic history of being torn from within.
The need to fill these positions becomes even more urgent as the Biden administration seeks to create a pretext for war with Iran. It is unclear how a third consecutive year of regime change projects in the Middle East will benefit the American people, but politicians of both parties who profit from the military-industrial complex are certain that war is necessary. .
After all, the Biden administration believes that the American military exists only for the benefit of the ruling class, and in moments of less vigilance and more incompetence, officials announce that fact.
domestic and foreign enemies
A video was released last week of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) addressing a crowd in Somalia, explaining that he has no choice but to put Somalis first and Muslims second because of their blood ties. Ta. She told her supporters: “No.” His “one job” in parliament is to protect Somalia’s national interests and territory.
The overt prioritization of foreign interests was shocking to manybut that’s exactly what you would expect in the later stages of a declining empire.
As the late Samuel Huntington explained:clash of civilizations”, diasporas often place large numbers of immigrants in dominant states with strong ties to the homeland. Immigration, in turn, exerts great influence on the foreign policy priorities of new countries. This is why many paleoconservatives warned that mass immigration, both legal and illegal, was a danger to American sovereignty and identity.
Nations are generally able to assimilate small numbers of new arrivals. Given enough time, those people can come to share Indigenous values and priorities. But massive waves of immigration have been flooding the United States for decades, making assimilation virtually impossible.
When large groups of unassimilated foreigners immigrate into a representative system, the outcome is almost always the same. When a wave of violence between Palestinians and Israelis erupted in October, crowds of protesters from both groups gathered in the streets of many American cities, shouting at each other and in some cases directly clashing. Countries that do not maintain control of their borders soon find themselves embroiled in ethnic conflicts between various imported groups.
Omar’s “Somalia first” stance may have been more brazen than many Americans are accustomed to, but the problem is not unique to her. American politicians have proven time and time again that they are more interested in protecting the borders of foreign countries like Israel and Ukraine than they are in deterring invasions pushing beyond their own southern borders. U.S. taxpayers are still providing pensions to Ukrainian bureaucrats and weapons systems to Israel, one of the richest countries in the world, while politicians are cutting Social Security and building a border wall. Trying to refuse construction.
The ruling elite believes that the military’s primary allegiance should be to the current presidential administration and the national political leader who declares its primary allegiance to foreign countries, this is just the late hour of empire.
America doesn’t tend its garden. It has not renewed its common identity and moral vision, and it has not passed on to the next generation the importance of preserving its traditions. President Ronald Reagan famously said, “Freedom does not disappear for more than a generation.” If America is to leave behind anything other than chaos, it must first rediscover its will to put America first.
