Europe’s Lost Testicles

Disarmed and docile Europeans pose no meaningful threat to their governments’ depredations.

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

All sorts of reasons have been advanced for declining birthrates. SLL spotlights Europe as an advanced case and offers a hypothesis: its testicles have gone missing.

What does it do to a continent when a country 3,000 miles and an ocean away strikes the decisive blows in two of its cataclysmic wars? What does it do to that continent when that distant power assumes control over much of its defense? At a primal level, the very essence of manhood is the ability to defend one’s self and loved ones. Perhaps ceding responsibility for doing so is not emasculation, but it made Europe the little brother who must rely on big brother to fight his battles.


Naturally, big brother calls the tune. During the Cold War, that meant accepting one’s place under the US defense umbrella and toeing the US line on the Soviet Union. Only French President Charles de Gaulle challenged US domination, and that was more show than substance. With a nuclear arsenal and geographic proximity, the Soviet Union posed an existential threat to Europe, even more than it did to the US. If the Soviet Union had invaded during the de Gaulle era, France would have quickly rejoined a US-led alliance.

European politicians had another reason for accepting US domination. They were erecting the world’s most generous welfare states. Money saved on defense spending was spent on benefits. With little protest Europeans also swallowed high and steeply progressive tax rates in return for state-provided largess.

The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 posed an existential threat to the US military-industrial-intelligence complex. NATO could have been disbanded and responsibility for Europe’s defense handed back to Europe. The US could have significantly cut military spending. It took ten years and 9/11, but the complex overcame the threat and preserved the status quo. It ginned up a story that Islamic extremism posed a danger to the West of the same magnitude as the former Soviet Union.

Islam has historically been riven with sectarian strife, notably the Sunni-Shia schism. Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda were living in caves when the US and United Kingdom invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Not one Islamic nation, and certainly none of the Islamic non-state groups, had any appreciable industrial capacity. Only one Islamic government, Pakistan’s, had nuclear weapons, and its arsenal was tiny compared to the West’s and Israel’s. To rate the Islamic “threat” as anything but minuscule compared to that posed by the Soviet Union was absurd

The only way the West could lose to Islam was if it defeated itself (see “How to Defeat Your Enemies,” SLL). To their credit, the governments of Germany, France, and New Zealand refused to swallow the US’s concocted rationales for the 2003 Iraq invasion—that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was fomenting terrorism—or support it. Globally an estimated 36 million people protested the invasion. The Guinness Book of Records lists a protest by three million in Rome as the largest ever antiwar rally.

We’ll see what happens if the US reneges on the Iran Nuclear Agreement, but to date 2003 remains the highpoint of European opposition to big brother. If they had known the consequences of US incursions into the Middle East and Northern Africa, they would have protested even more vociferously. The US has made a complete hash of it. The war against terror creates more terrorists, and turning the area into a hodgepodge of hell holes has prompted millions to flee, often to Europe.

They find a continent that economically has seen better days. The welfare state guarantees everything but the opportunity to work hard, keep what you earn, and make a better life for yourself. State favored companies use regulation to squelch smaller, less-connected competitors and stop innovative startups before they get started. The European Union is a bureaucratic, centralizing engine run amuck, creating more daunting obstacles to companies and entrepreneurs. There’s the usual corruption that comes with centralized bureaucracies. Monetary authorities are all-in on debt monetization and interest rate suppression policies that discourage honest savings and productive investment but encourage stock, bond, property, and derivatives speculation.

No surprise then that the European economy hasn’t grown much, if it all, the last few decades. Nor that it’s eating America and Asia’s dust in high-tech. It’s not even a surprise that this state of affairs evokes little protest among Europeans. When the government provides cradle-to-grave, you shut up and get with the program. Even if means you live with your parents into you’re thirties or forties, never have a real job or meaningful occupation, never marry or start a family, and nobody can remember one memorable thing you’ve done at your state-provided funeral.

Instead of taking an honest look at why Europeans are not having babies, politicians and other well-credentialed idiots have decreed that immigration is just the trick for declining birth rates and aging populations. They’ve been lucky; big brother America’s interventionist policies have created all sorts of refugees.

Islamic immigration is a focal point for all that ails Europe. Since 2003, there’s been no real opposition to the US’s refugee-creating policies. The refugees have found not just refuge, but state-provided benefits. Europe’s so-called leaders, apparatchiks, and media assure the population that Muslims bear no animus towards Europe. The fable goes that they will readily assimilate and become part of the taxpaying work force, forestalling the impending insolvency of the welfare state.

Only actual facts and a few alternative media outlets challenge this codswallop, for the most part Europeans have bought it. Are they fooled or neutered? The continent responsible for much of Western Civilization probably didn’t get stupid in a generation, which argues for the latter.

The isolated sparks of opposition are met with opprobrium, threats, fines and criminal sentences. Not a month goes by in which a prominent European politician doesn’t call for restrictions on the internet, the one forum that’s not completely cowed (or is it steered?). A few Eastern European nations are the resistance, pariahs. It wouldn’t be the worst thing for them if Angela Merkel-led “proper Europe” cut them off entirely.

One has to wonder if Europe’s preening politicians would be quite so obliviously oppressive (having old ladies beat up to stop them from voting and the like), if Europe’s population would be so docilely delusional, and if its Islamic immigrants would be better behaved if guns were as available as they are in the US. Pseudo-intellectuals smirk that guns are “potent phallic symbols.” True perhaps, but as noted, defending one’s self and loved ones is the first responsibility of the phallically endowed. Guns are a lot more effective than Tasers, knives, baseball bats, or calling the police.

There have been odious incidents of European women being groped, stripped, and sexually assaulted by Islamic criminals in public venues, unchallenged by what passes for European manhood. Just as odious is the pressure brought to bear on those seeking to publicize such incidents. In the US, your “intellectual” credentials aren’t in order unless you hail Europe as a “model.” It’s a model all right, for what happens when governments have no fear of their citizens. Europe’s emasculation is a potent argument for full firearms freedom in the United States.

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rhs jr
rhs jr

I believe Pole, Hungarian, Austrian and some German men still exist and I expect we will be hearing from them.

Das Arschloch
Das Arschloch

Sometimes a degenerate exterior conceals a healthy core. The inner core reemerges when circumstances require it.

BB

I think a few more attacks from Muslims just might wake up enough people to at least vote some of those treasonous son of a bitches out of office.That young man just elected in Stucky home country is a good example.He is anti immigration hard cord .God I hope more are elected before it’s to late.

Anonymous
Anonymous

The Germans just overwhelmingly voted Merkel and her pro Muslim policies in for another term.

A. R. Wasem
A. R. Wasem

Wasn’t anything remotely resembling “overwhelming” and the “patriotic” party gained Bundestag representation for the first time.

starfcker

Robert, don’t forget those two Wars wiped out the real men of Europe. There’s a couple of missing generation of studs (and their studly DNA) on that continent. When the sissies and the women is all that’s left in a civilization, you get what you get.

Capn Mike
Capn Mike

Those “refugees” ain’t refugees. They are young men from Africa who come for the benefits and the pussy.
I have seen them in action in Paris. Very scary street thugs who escape punishment due to “racial sensitivity”.

nkit
nkit

Capn Mike is right..they ain’t refugees, they are nig nogs coming for a free life, and a chance to bone your daughter, and your daughter’s daughter, viciously too….other than that, they run their own businesses, staff our labs, run our IT businesses, lick Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, sustain our economy and all that other happy nig nog Obama speak..

Christopher Hardt
Christopher Hardt

Excellent read. May I suggest an additional cause of loosing testicular fortitude? It’s very simple really: when a nation or a people relinquish responsibility for their lives to a paternal government they willingly diminish themselves and their own self-responsibility. Submissiveness to the government becomes endemic. People trade their individuality, even their sense of self preservation, to a very large degree, for safety and security. Is this not the siren call of the Left? “We will take care of you.” An additional soul-rotting pattern takes over – namely the instinctive drive to fit into the tribal standard, to be politically and socially correct. Socialism is not just an economic/governmental system it is a means of homogenizing a society. Unfortunately no cream rises to the top. Conformity is the standard blandness. Yes, Europeans have sold their ignorant souls to the devil. What breaks my heart is we are following in their footsteps.

Luminae
Luminae

Mr. Hardt you have accurately described China, a nation which has the industrial capacity and military to engage the US in a way ISIS never could. I often think we are so focused on the muzzies that we are missing a much larger threat to the American way of life.

What if China were to move first on NK while we are dilly-dallying? Chew on that for awhile.

Even better…imagine a unified democratic Korea on China’s border.

Vodka
Vodka

I’m from Scottish ancestry. They lost 27% of their young men fighting WWI. Then had to send a fresh crop 20 years later for WWII. You don’t ever fully recover from such staggering losses. I suspect it’s the same with all the European nations who saw their young men slaughtered. Civilian women and children included.

Rdawg
Rdawg

If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap!

Llpoh
Llpoh

Rdawg – if it is not single malt, it is crap.

Luminae
Luminae

An Interesting read, yet all it says really is that western europeans are largely wusses and pussies. No surprise there. The Hungarians and Czechs appear to be of a different mindset.

In the USA any guy supporting Shrillary lost his cahoneys a long time ago. So it’s only us, who are doing the man’s job of raising a family, that are left. We can’t do it all and still fight the MSM, et al.

We need a POTUS with more guts than Reagan to lead the way. This is why Trump won.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy

The punitive under current of the left is an infection to our Free Republic . The continuous regulatory agencies that invoke policy rules , regulations or standards that have zero Constitutional standing yet has the power of the court system and the just doing my job badge wearing minions using and abusing the power these real facists excercise to justify their own pathetic non productive existance is a major problem to all Free thinking people . This very site has had its advertising dollars interrupted by internet left leaning services . Just another attempt to silence speech they on the left find unacceptable . Some posts on many sites are unacceptable to many , sadly the lefts inability to argue from a position of facts leaves them with the last resort of a scoundrel argue from an emotional perspective . Emotion has no place in reality , facts are as they are and a bitter lesson , the truth hurts especially when we turn that critical observation to the man in the mirror .

Gerold

That’s a very excellent and well-reasoned article, Robert and with such great economy of words it’s almost poetic.

We mustn’t forget that Germany, Europe’s economic power-house has been occupied with ‘Allied’ (NATO) bases since 1945. I’m not surprised that most of my German cousins are spineless, metro-sexual eunuchs unquestioningly swallowing state-sponsored, politically correct propaganda. They re-elected Merkel and, believing that Islam is a religion of peace their white guilt opened the gates to their future Muslim conquerors. I recently covered the reasons in “Pathological Altruism and White Guilt.”
Pathological Altruism and White Guilt

Many of the comments here are hopeful, but I’m reminded that hope is not a plan. I wince when I read some of the chest-pounding comments on other websites, notably SHTF that are nothing more than braggadocio because not words, but only action and blood will save the white race. I wonder if we’ll come to that realization before it’s too late.

It’s not just Europe, but North America is also infiltrated with enemies be they low-IQ minorities, the Deep State, the Chosenites, welfare queens, the left, etc. The enemy is in our midst so if we survive this Fourth Turning, it will be bloody and heart-breaking.

Bill Sturka
Bill Sturka

The Alternative For Germany Party won about 12% of the vote in the last election. Off the top of my head that has to be 5 or 6 million people. Many of them of fighting age and probably full of a suppressed rage at what’s being done. As has been noted above, things can change very rapidly in the right circumstances.

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