Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Their greater fear is not of Putin’s Russia but of an EU superstate whose dominance leads inexorably to the decline and disappearance of distinct ethnic nations. To the leaders of Hungary and Poland and the traditionalist and populist right-wing parties of Europe, nationality matters more than political systems.
Speaking in Conroe, Texas, last weekend, former President Donald Trump accused his successor of allowing millions of migrants to enter the country illegally across our Southern border.
“The most important border … for us is not Ukraine’s border but America’s border,” thundered Trump.
“Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Europe, he should be sending troops to defend our border right here in Texas.”
Thus did Trump not only frame a compelling issue for the fall election; he has framed an issue that touches on one of the great and deepening divides of our time.
Which matters more — the defense of our country from an invasion of migrants from the Third World, or the defense of the borders of distant nations that have little or nothing to do with the security or survival of the United States?
Why should who rules the Russified Donbas be America’s concern?
This “border issue” feeds into other Republican issues.
For the border crossers seen on national TV appear to be mostly young men, who will likely contribute to the crime crisis of shootings and killings plaguing America’s cities.
Illegal immigration is also the ways and means by which illegal drugs enter the United States. Last year, 100,000 Americans, most of them young, died of overdoses, with two-thirds of these Americans succumbing to fentanyl that is produced in China and comes through Mexico.
Trump’s framing of the issue as between the foreign borders we defend and America’s border that we do not also divides the GOP.
The interventionist wing of the party seeks a confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, while America First nationalists urge a refocus of U.S. troops and resources to our own bleeding southern border.
And illegal migration is rising as an issue not only in the United States but across Europe.
In France, the four leading presidential candidates — incumbent Emmanuel Macron, nationalist Marine Le Pen, the center-right candidate Valerie Pecresse and the far-right candidate Eric Zemmour — are all making the invasion of Europe an issue, and taking a tougher line.
Over the same weekend that Trump spoke in Texas, the leaders of two NATO nations that border Ukraine headed to Madrid for a gathering titled “Defend Europe.” The threat that brought them to the Spanish capital was not Russia’s military presence on Ukraine’s borders.
Reports The New York Times:
“Instead of tackling the Russian threat to Europe’s eastern frontier, the meeting attended by the prime ministers of Poland and Hungary, Mateusz Morawiecki and Viktor Orban, focused on what the populist leaders cite as their most pressing threats: immigration, demographic decline and the European Union … ”
“France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, an outspoken fan of the Kremlin, was also at the two-day conclave … ”
“A declaration issued after the Madrid gathering made no mention of Ukraine. … It instead stressed the need to form a united front in favor of ‘family policies,’ Christianity and keeping out immigrants. The European Union, the statement said, had become ‘detached from reality,’ leading to ‘demographic suicide.’”
In brief, while Western elites are alarmed about the borders of Ukraine and Kremlin encroachments, much of Europe is more concerned about its own moral, cultural and demographic decline — abortion, LGBT rights, low birth rates and the death of Christianity.
Europe is in danger of dying, these people believe.
These Europeans are concerned that the nations and peoples their ancestors and fathers knew are going out of existence. Their greater fear is not of Putin’s Russia but of an EU superstate whose dominance leads inexorably to the decline and disappearance of distinct ethnic nations.
To the leaders of Hungary and Poland and the traditionalist and populist right-wing parties of Europe, nationality matters more than political systems.
Hungary’s Viktor Orban, for example, does not regard Putin’s Russia as an enemy of his country, and provides economic incentives for Hungarian families to have more children.
Consider. If the birth rates of the ethnic groups that historically have made up the nations of Europe are now below replacement levels, 2.1 children per woman, these peoples will become minorities in their own countries and eventually die out.
Extinction beckons.
Why should the inhabitants of these nations care about the borders of other countries, if their own countries are slowly passing away?
And why should the future inhabitants of Europe from Africa and Asia in year 2100, who will inherit, populate and rule these lands, care about the old borders created by the history of yesterday’s Europeans?
As the peoples of Europe are divided between those who fear demographic death in the long run and those who fear autocratic Russian dominance in the near term, so, too, are Americans divided.
Our ruling class, to whom the world struggle is between autocracy and democracy, are willing to fight for the triumph of the latter over the former.
The other half of America is more concerned with the character and composition of their own nation, present and future, which also appears to be passing away.
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Notice there is no mention of freedom in Buchanan’s analysis, unless it is the implied freedom from ethnic genocide.
The Republicans had a huge tool to force Biden to go back to Trump policies on the border which far from perfect but did reduce the flow of illegals. That tool or bargaining chip was Biden’s infrastructure bill which passed with Republican votes. Both Idaho Senators voted for it. Why? having lived in Idaho it is crawling with Illegals, cheap labor for agri-business. This creates a black market cash economy across the country NO POLITICIAN dares talk about. Throw in their human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug flow (billions of $) . We are losing our country with this influx of illegals who have no regard for laws. Why should we?
We have groups clamoring for a living wage, but do not seem to understand that illegal aliens drive down wages for American citizens. If this point was driven home, it would raise the anger level among the minimum wage crowd and they would not freely give their votes to the politicians who are holding down their wages.
until we reform entitlements we need immigrants–
if every working age american who was not completely self supporting had to work we would need very few immigrants but until that happens we need them–
can we be realistic & vet them?
No.
4 down votes on my comment–
were those kneeerk reactions,you cannot logically analyze what was posted & post a rebuttal,or is it something else such as,maybe you or your kids are members of the fsa?
Trump haters in 3 2 1 …
Trump haters are the same as other people who hate our government and the people responsible for it – rational people.
Hey assby — FUCK TRUMP !!! Note that this comes from someone who voted for him, enthusiastically in 2016, and extremely reluctantly in 2020 only to avoid Xio Bribem… Get a clue
That would not make any sense to Pat and his ilk.
Trump. LOL.
Remind me, how many divisions did he mobilize to our southern border when he was tweeting-in-chief? How many times did he just tell the commies in our gov’t to get fukked? How many of the treasonous conspirators did he round up and toss in prison?
Meanwhile, I am sure he is working hard to free the jan6 trespassers.
Nothing against him or his ideas, per se, but how much more evidence do we need that a POTUS or average joe have very little power to affect actual change when the entirety of the fedgov administrative state, the permanent bureaucracy, the professional political class, the globocapital elite, and at least some 40% of our own “citizens” do not believe in Our Nation has a right to exist in the first place?
There is neither the will nor the mechanisms to suddenly, after decades of open borders and cultural war losses, and straight-up purposeful demographic replacement (it’s great for our Economy dontchya know!), bring about a restoration of a Nation without first a restoration of the sovereign right of her people to exist.
Go ahead ask all your fellow patriots “Who are We (the people)? What does it mean to be An American?” Oh its about paperwork then? About a desire for better personal economics? The “right” to pursue a better life? “Freedom” to go to a mosque without being blowd up?
Well, good luck with that liberal democracy of 50%+1 that has nothing to do with current year tyranny.
Invaders are just what happens after our people have been dispossessed of our right to exist and self-govern. A nation is not lines on a map; it is a homeland for a people with common biological heritage. Culture, language, traditions, and values forged by their environment over generations. Heritage.
Orange Man Bad peeled back the comforter to show some of the hairy legs of the deep state hydra – and that was a great thing, but the impulse to grasp at memes and call them policy is already to the point of own-goals on our side.
It’s feel-good mental patriot masturbation to rally behind these memes (“the democrats are more about Ukraine’s borders than our own”). Great for the political rallies but what has that won us in the actual war?
It simply does not matter that most people are reasonable about borders. What matters is the right to identity, the will to secure the land for those people, and the mettle to ward-off all invaders and threats to those people even if it carries great cost. In that we are very late to the party. You cannot keep a nation when you are afraid of being called racist on Facebook and your wife “votes” democrat because poor people or something.
Homogeneity is necessary to save this country that was founded on a western white system, by western whites for western whites.
AP, (((someone))) with no sense of irony down-voted you… LOL