Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The globalists refuse to declare the migrant crisis an “invasion,” but we have history’s guidance to show us what happens when an unsustainable number of people enter a nation. The Goths, a non-military group considered migrants, are a perfect example. These men, women, and children sought refuge within the Roman Empire. This was not an invading army but rather a fleeing population seeking safety from the Huns. The Goths, long-time foes of the Romans, appealed to be admitted to Roman territory due to the threat they faced and needed to seek asylum. This event led to significant consequences and marked a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire.
The great Gothic migration involved hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. While, to some degree, the growing unrest in the East pushed them southward, there is also little doubt that the border defenses of the Roman Empire had also been seriously weakened by the political instability and economic pressures that were building within Rome itself. Of course, the rumor of great plunder and riches available in Roman territory acted like a magnet much in the same way as the rumors of streets paved in gold in America prompted great European migrations during the 19th and early 20th centuries or the outdated stereotype of the American Dream.
By 238 AD, the Gothic position was so threatening to the Roman Empire that Emperor Maximinus was forced to pay them vast amounts of tribute, similar to how countries currently pay all expenses for migrants. While his aim may have been to buy time, this demonstrated weakness on the part of the Romans, who were still in the middle of internal political struggles for power. Internal imperial rivalries ultimately defeated Maximinis. Within less than four years thereafter, the Goths began a series of raids along the Danube.
A decade later and Philip I attempted to quell the influx of migrants, but died while battling his successor, Trajan Decius. Rome was simply decaying gradually from internal struggles, which weakened the economy and constantly pitted one legion against another in a struggle for power. We see internal struggles today throughout the West as politics continue to divide the people. The Romans did not consider the Goths to be a force that would threaten the entire Empire, but rather more as a barbarian force looking for plunder rather than power.
Trajanus Decius declared the Goths an enemy and attempted to force them out of the empire, only for the masses to return a year later. The Goths were prepared this time and formed several strategic alliances with enemies, such as the Dacian Carpi. This led to a full-scale invasion, and the Roman Empire suddenly found itself besieged as war raged on in Moesia, Dacia, and even in Thrace, while the main body of the Gothic invasion was preparing a descent into the region of the Black Sea.
After many battles, the Goths emerged as the new masters of the entire Danube territory, all the way to the Black Sea. Trebonianus Gallus emerged as the new Emperor who could do nothing to reverse the Empire’s humiliating defeat. The Goths now turned to Illyricum and Thrace, burning and plundering their way across the region. By 253 AD, the Goths set sail along the Black Sea, headed straight for Asia Minor, which was wide open and waiting to be plundered.
The Roman Empire was declining until Emperor Aurelian came to power and began restorative efforts, including anti-immigration policies. He not merely launched defensive measures, he moved on the offensive against the Goths and demolished them through a series of battles. The Goths were driven out of the Balkans and into Dacia. Aurelian also greatly restored the Black Sea defenses, which helped those regions rebuild their economies as well. However, Aurelian failed to pursue the barbarians into the Roman province of Dacia, pulling back and establishing the new border once again along the natural border as originally defined by Augustus – the Danube.
Aurelian’s decision to redraw the borders left Dacia in the hands of the Carpi and the Goths. Once the Goths were contained, they began to divide into two distinct groups – Ostrogothic and Visigothic kingdoms. These groups would evolve into powerful states that would ultimately bring down the Roman Empire in the West.
Those in favor of the Gothic migration stated that the newcomers would increase tax revenue and benefit the Roman economy. It was a humanitarian crisis and Rome’s responsibility to solve. Instead, the unsustainable influx of Gothic refugees contributed to the eventual fall of the Western Roman Empire. The event marked a turning point in Roman history and was part of a period in which the Roman Empire nearly collapsed under the combined pressures of invasion, civil war, plague, and economic depression. History always repeats.
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So…….if history repeats it must be the same group of people whose job on this planet is to thwart mankind’s progress at every turn….
Also EXTREMELY interesting how an almost 2000 year old story lines up with today…..
Could you imagine……we would be traveling the stars already were it not for the name-stealing troublesome meddlers ….
Yes I’m being kind…….
Don’t mistake it for weakness …..
The same group of human delusions drives the intraspecies violence.
“My group is better than all other groups.”
You got Socrates in my Hippocrates.
Thank you B……exactly!
Who was Baruch Levy?
Baruch Epstein or Baruch ha-Levi Epstein (1860–1941) (Hebrew: ברוך הלוי אפשטיין) was a Ashkenazi Jewish rabbi, best known for his Torah Temimah commentary on the Torah. He was the son of Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, rabbi of Novarodok and author of the work Arukh HaShulkhan.
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So the kike was 23 when Marx died?
They have come a long ways baby.
The letter is a fraud. Karl Marx (1818-1883). Baruch Levy (1860-1941). There is real evidence out there.
Yeah, but did the Goths ever get wistful and embarrassed about their 1000 years of rape pillage and torture and demand to pay reparations?
Rome had long since fallen. The real migrant crisis: “For the Syrian Orontes has long since polluted the Tiber” centuries earlier.
Western Civilization 2, the modern world, is the creation of Germanic men. The German ‘barbarians’ adopted Roman culture but with less acceptance of corruption (decadence, sloth, greed, fraud, etc.). It took a long time, but the Germanic people reinvigorated Western culture as and after they selectively adopted imperial Roman culture (which deserved to die). The same is true of the Macedonians who, not being corrupted by long political dominance, reinvigorated Greek culture with their own interpretation of it.
One thing the Romans did not put up with was Jewish challenge to their rule. They expediently gave Jews political favor with regard to submission via the rites of the imperial cult because Jews simply would get violent rather than perform the pagan rites. Eventually, pragmatic leeway became pragmatic destruction. Romans did not sit on their asses waiting for (((Jesus))) to save them. Jews were kicked out of Rome several times in the two last centuries before the epoch of the Western calendar. Today we at large embrace the Jews as cosmopolitan brothers working for a common eschatological future. The prelude to the Bolshevik Revolution via the Jewish Labor Bunde and various propagandists such as Karl Marx is a precursor of the system of engineered destruction of the West we see today after the Frankfurt School adapted Marxism to the recipe of massive psychological abuse called ‘Critical Theory’.
Modern Americans like to glorify past empires as if it were a good thing because these peons of today are ignorant of what living as a pleb in the mature Roman Empire without the bribes of bread and circus was like.
I do NOT believe the invasion of the Goths as immigrants or troops is a close analogue to the decline of the West today. The inside-out engineering of today has no corollary with the Roman Empire because the Romans would simply kill the Jews and destroy their cultural means, in particular their temple and their access to Jerusalem. That pragmatism is something the Romans did consistently over many generations. Hitler tried to win in less than a generation for all time. Natural law is contrary to such an arrangement. German culture and moreover modern Western cultures are not strong enough to politically fight the Jews across the generations like the Romans did. The Jews fight culturally with no real challengers to them at their game or even downstream as the Romans did.
The somewhat astute reader may object with the Jews chasing a stable eschatological rule over all the world forever as also contrary to natural law. Judaism has a wealth of intelligent design because it has been working at conquest from within empires and other societies since the Babylonian Capture in the early 5th century B.C. Jews are relentless and act over a timespace horizon much vaster than the goy masses can comprehend. If their religion is false, to wit, if there is no Jewish God of the universe, which there is not, does that make their efforts fruitless? No, it does not. Once any end times of Jewish rule ceases, the messiah of the era is simply declared a false messiah. Rinse and repeat. That is the organic process. It is very natural in the POSIWID way. (((Christianity))) is very natural only as domestication to the Jewish hand. (((Islam))) is presumably the result of Jews recruiting Arabs to conquer Canaan on their behalf. Canaan was under Byzantine Christian rule. The most prominent feature of the Jerusalem skyline, still, is the Dome of the Rock. It’s golden dome hovers over the Holy of Holies. Notice that Jews and their heritage have social relevance to Christians and Muslims. That is common ground they can work.
The post I just critiqued is a nice try but wrong. It is far too simplistic and just another bro-science lesson. History rhymes but does not exactly repeat like a broken record. Sexual reproduction is similar. Organic process is messy and variable. So is organic power. We are organic. The Romans were so practical that the last vestige of the Roman Empire did not cease to exist until Constantinople was conquered by the Muslim Ottoman Turks in 1453. A decline of 1,000 years is a long time, longer than most political entities have existed, including the Third Reich. The modern West, if still alive, is approximately five centuries old. Romans were past their prime at 500 years old if you are truly Western, but the Five Good Emperors and the maximum imperial extents under Trajan were one more century away. You have no viable culture. The Jews do. Guess what happens for the next one or many centuries?
Today’s Westerner is not really Western. He does not think per se, so I avoid using the word here. He does not mentally function like a Greek philosopher or a farmer-soldier of the Roman Republic. He demands privilege from daddy government. Daddy government is looking out for #1 and will be ‘practical’ in the fullness of time. The masses are practical herd animals in all times and at all places, and I hate them with all my heart. Evolutionary psychology is the correct interpretive frame.
Those who read this are well above average, but I hate most of you anyway. Not good enough for me. Not good enough for Nature and Nature’s God, lol, in the fullness of time. I hate you because your pretenses of culture and as applicable religion are jokes at my expense first. The herds of pretentious cultural weaklings that reliably assail and neutralize actual humans can be dealt with later. In engineered decline at this stage, the plebs do well because they suck. Suck on. That’s what the parasites of my heritage do every day.
Hey, Doug. Planet earth is a horror movie. Get used to it. Work on why you are here.
I think he’s opted to hide in the tool shed full of rusty chainsaws. Just sayin…
Funny, but you are not far off Central. I went out for karaoke and it seems that the local population has gotten worse (from my perspective). You go mix it up with the masses? It’s just more than I can take to see garbage with marriage, family, and lives—everything robbed from me. It is a hard think to have put in your face. I just can’t socially function with this garbage, and they have every immediate reason to believe they are right and I am wrong. I know mother nature will correct this perversion, but I don’t know that I will survive to see it. I’d like to, I think. Rusty chainsaws are better people.
“The inside-out engineering of today has no corollary with the Roman Empire”
Their involvement with slavery and the changing racial makeup of Rome had similarities to today. And of course if christianity or other cults had a part in it. Also, jewish culture is not destroyed by things like sacking a city or scattering them. If anything, these are the completely wrong methods to deal with them.
The process of the jew is organic but I would say it is an event like bugs emerging every 3rd year. Iterative. Perpetual. Always looking and smelling substantially the same.
I find the herd wearying if not depressing, but sometimes you have to plumb the depths to remind yourself how far down the niggercattle go.
‘Wearying’ is the word. This Matrix with cattle commitment is overwhelming. Can’t even defeat it here.
Historical correction: Babylonian Capture occurred in the early 6th century B.C.
The terminally stupid refuse to stop the invasion of America, the rest of the world is no different. What you have known will be no more.
…and what you have always feared will overtake you.
Yep. Hard times are a comin!
Comin`? Comin’? Must be good to be you. I wouldn’t call the mutilation of penises, testicles, and breasts hard times. I wouldn’t call the emasculation of men and the pimp ruination of women so that healthy family formation is rare hard times. No, not until it’s your testicles in the hand of da Man, then it’s hard times.
It is only ‘hard times’ that could save me. I want the hard to visit heavily upon the masses and their masters. We never talk about being hard men that restore good times. Yah, I went off again. I suppose you are not technically wrong in your statement. I can’t image what the herd will call hard times, and I don’t want to.