The end of the Western alliance

It is a new world, and not a better one

The post World War 2 era is at an end. At the end of World War 2, Western countries decided to unite in defense of Western civilization. Having learned the wrong lessons from that war, however, the countries of the Western alliance have identified civilizational suicide as its new moral imperative.

By the West, I understand essentially the countries of the EU, NATO, and the “Five Eyes” portion of the Anglosphere:

• all of Europe west of the former Soviet Union, together with the Baltic states

• the United States of America

• Canada

• Australia

• New Zealand

Other countries are closely allied to this grouping, but the countries listed above are traditionally Christian, and founded by Europeans. We will examine other groupings later in this article.

The news events prompting me to this conclusion are primarily connected with the Iran war. Parts of NATO have joined previous American military expeditions regularly for decades.

This time was different, however. A collision of two facts made NATO support of America not viable this time. One fact is the great replacement of the Western population, chronicled by Renaud Camus (most of you will need to translate the page into English).

The second fact is that the American war effort took place in complete coordination with Israel, the nation most hated by the West’s new population. Even allegedly “conservative” governments in the West, who might have sulked and given lukewarm support to America alone, refused to fight alongside Israel.

I used to be a die-hard supporter of NATO. Now I wonder what the alliance stands for. In my last column, I explained my repeated question in dozens or hundreds of reposts: “Why do the [people of Western country X] choose this?” Each such post displays criminal activity, violent, depraved, contemptuous, by unruly guests welcomed enthusiastically into the West. Crimes include assault, rape, and murder, and Westerners never seem to get tired of this. The perpetrators are quite reliably from certain communities of migrants.

Historian Bill Federer was interviewed regarding the ongoing Islamification of Europe. He claimed that there would be a Muslim majority in Europe by 2030, which I am virtually certain is not accurate. There may be a Muslim majority by mid-century, but that is irrelevant. What matters more is the steadily increasing numbers of Muslims in the West, the Muslim confidence in the success of their hijrah (migration), their confidence in asserting their religion, and the obsequious deference shown by Westerners, who efface their own culture so as not to offend the migrants’ sensibilities. Shari’a law is already replacing Christian, European common law in some areas.

Europe has the fortune of being adjacent to not only the Middle East, but also Africa, and it is not too far from South Asia. This led me to revisit my Freedom Development Index, adding a sixth dimension, IQ, to the previous five. The map changed only slightly, and the updated version appears below.

I put most of the 164 countries pictured above into several baskets, to see the average score within each group. (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Mongolia, Russia, and Ukraine did not fit into any obvious groupings. There was not enough data for Afghanistan, Cuba, North Korea, South Sudan, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan.) Here are the results.

• The West is defined near the top of this column.

• The Tiger countries are Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan. While these countries are not majority Christian or founded by Europeans, they generally work well with Western countries.

• Latin-Caribbean is the western hemisphere outside of Canada, Greenland, and the United States.

• ASEAN is the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

• The other categories are self-explanatory.

It would appear that great caution is called for in importing population from the lowest-ranking groups on the Freedom Development Index. With multiple countries having average IQ less than 60, one must ask how such people would support themselves in a technologically advanced society.

It should be understood that all immigration standards should be applied to individuals, not to nationalities. I think it is fair to deny residence to immigrants with IQ less than 85.

Returning to Europe, I have read recently of many exciting developments.

• Spain is granting amnesty to 500-800 thousand illegal aliens, who will then be able to travel throughout the EU. We Americans should expect the Democrats to do the same thing when they return to power, and in our case, we have about 30 million illegal aliens, enough to guarantee permanent one-party control.

• The Pope has ordered the construction of a Muslim prayer room in the Vatican library. The popes who oversaw Crusades are turning in their graves.

• The United Kingdom has made it a de facto, not yet de jure, crime to fly the flag of the United Kingdom, and also to object to women being raped. The British government is also in the process of eliminating the right to trial by jury. King John must be wondering why he gave in so easily and signed the Magna Carta.

Returning to our original subject, the collapse of NATO, the question bears pondering: what exactly is it that we are defending? Moreover, who is “we”?

Charles Murray, in his Human Accomplishment, identified the highest achievers from around the world, in the humanities, science, and technology. The most brilliant era of accomplishment was roughly from the Renaissance through the 20th century, and at its head were primarily England, France, Germany, Italy, and their neighbors to a smaller extent, with America becoming prominent later in this period.

Western civilization underwent a destructive process, starting slowly in 1914 with World War 1, and then accelerating after World War 2. The post-war Pax Americana masked a loss of confidence in Europe, which grappled with the Holocaust which was perpetrated on its territory. Finally Europeans decided to assuage their guilt for the lost Nobel Prize winners by admitting tens of millions of rapists and jihadists, eager for revenge for the Crusades.

This column should not be construed as gloating over the demise of Europe, but rather a warning to America. Democrats are eager to destroy America, by turning its control over to violent people who cannot support themselves. The next combination of a Democrat president and Democrat congress may well doom America, the last, best hope of the West. I wish I had a simple solution to this problem.