By Jo Nova
Donald Trump wants to bring free speech, fertility, hard borders and patriotism back to Europe too
Other people have pointed out the dire state of Europe, but the continent can’t ignore the US President.
He has vowed to “cultivate resistance” to Europe’s current trajectory — and raises grave concerns at the subversion of democratic processes, and the loss of European culture saying “should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less“. The US is officially putting the topic-that-must-not-be-discussed on the table — mass immigration, and blaming the decay of Europe on transnational bodies like the European Union.
This is still an America First policy — framed as it being in Washington’s interest to “prevent any adversary from dominating Europe”.
Trump’s new national security strategy takes aim at Europe
The Wall Street Journal
“A large European majority wants peace, yet that desire is not translated into policy, in large measure because of those governments’ subversion of democratic processes,” Trump’s strategy document states. “This is strategically important to the United States precisely because European states cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.”
Apparently the US releases one grand strategic policy each Presidential term with big thinking ideas about the place of US in the world.
We can be sure the Blob media will repeat the quotes, but dwell on the trivia and funnel readers away from the substance. The BBC tells readers that Trump is aligned with the far right AfD party, which was classified as “extreme” in Germany, but they won’t discuss the numbers of immigrants or how European countries are changing. Politico discusses “echoes” of the racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, but won’t ask what proportion of Europeans are fluent in their national language, and how many celebrate (or even know) the European culture and heritage of the last thousand years.
Trump says The People are even more important than The Economy….
Trump administration says Europe faces ‘civilisational erasure’
By Brandon Livesay, BBC
Trump described the document as a “roadmap” to ensure America remains “the greatest and most successful nation in human history”.
The new report doubles down on Trump’s point of view, calling for the restoration of “Western identity”, combatting foreign influence, ending mass migration, and focusing more on US priorities such as stopping drug cartels.
Focusing on Europe, it asserts that if current trends continue the continent would be “unrecognisable in 20 years or less” and its economic issues are “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure”.
“It is far from obvious whether certain European countries will have economies and militaries strong enough to remain reliable allies,” the document states.
It also accused the European Union and “other transnational bodies” of carrying out activities that “undermine political liberty and sovereignty”, said migration policies were “creating strife” and said other issues included “censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence”.
Conversely, the document hails the growing influence of “patriotic European parties” and says “America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit”.
Trump wonders whether NATO can survive in the long run:
“Over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European,” the document reads. “As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.” — Euronews
It is a conversation The West needs to have. Is a nation a broader family that has a lifelong pact to look after its own in War and Peace, or just a hotel where people choose to live for a while?
Nationalism threatens the Blob, because it demands to know how The Blob serves the nation and The Blob serve only themselves.
Photo of Statues by pierreforlin from Pixabay
The European people obviously object strongly to the policies and direction their leaders are dragging them towards but like here, the leaders are not representing the people or the best interests of the nation, but instead those of their global elite owners.
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I saw this moments after it was published. I was gonna send this to Jo, but I didn’t really think she would take notice of it.
I thank the dear Lord that she’s published this. Kudos Jo🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Bill in Arizona
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https://www.rt.com/news/629119-trump-shatters-liberal-illusion/
Thee seems to be acknowledgement that the “poles are shifting”.
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The snowball is gaining momentum:-
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/washingtons-new-national-security-strategy-de
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The loss of the UK, Europe, in fact the entire Developed Western ,industrialised world is not simply happening! It’s all going according to the plans of the UN, ,WEF, EU. Currently close to 80% of government worldwide has strongly leaning Socialist/ Marxist governments. Need anything more be said?
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‘Need anything more be said?’
Yeah, Social Democrats are not Marxist/Socialists and you’ll need a link for that 80% figure.
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Link / schmink!!
Common sense is the magic link to everything!
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Common sense is a natural variable.
The New York mayor is a Social Democrat and the POTUS treated him kindly in the Oval Office.
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Then Mamdani turned around and bit him after he got home.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/23/mamdani-trump-fascist
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Putin is a fascist, not the POTUS who may have despotic ambitions.
Do you think the EU “ … cannot reform themselves if they are trapped in political crisis.”
Democracy is constantly in uproar and the US is in a political crisis.
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Bollocks. Putin is a nationalist who puts his country first. Most get their opinions from the mainstream media and do not have a clue. Go on, next time there is a bushfire or a virus running about you can believe it because the media is telling you the truth. FFS!
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Its important to read widely and between the lines, propaganda is widespread.
Putin is a nationalist war criminal and he is turning the Russian Federation into a failed state.
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Mmmm you can fill up the between the lines with all kinds of wild imaginings, that doesnt make it analysis or truth however entertaining.
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Call them whatever you or they like, if they believe that there should be no private management of industry they can be labelled Marxists
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Prime Minister Albanese has been a follower of the late Russian revolutionary Marxist Leon Trotsky for decades and so are various of his Labor Party members, emphasis on State Labor Victoria.
During the 1970s NSW Labor Premier Wran proposed a new strategy for winning votes from Australians who are in the majority not particularly interested in politics but effectively are on the middle ground. Wran told his Labor comrades that they must appear to be centre-right, all factions.
In recent years/decades the sensible Labor right (being centre-left) have been pushed aside by far-left masquerading as centre-left.
And part of the Wran strategy was to try and push the Coalition of Liberal and National further to the right than their mostly centre-right majority position.
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Great news.
European and Western Culture is nothing to be ashamed of, after all this is the culture that brought freedom to the world, was first to end slavery and feudalism/serfdom, promoted free enterprise etc., all with some obvious failures along the way, which then led to another experiment in freedom, and a much more successful one, the United States (who have also made some mistakes, but the freedom process is self-correcting).
Great European thinkers for freedom and free enterprise, all largely now cancelled by the Left are.
Adam Smith.
John Locke.
Ludwig Von Mises.
David Hume
Immanuel Kant.
Frédéric Bastiat
Murray N. Rothbard
Friedrich Hayek
baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Baruch Spinoza
And many other thinkers such as those who contributed to the Enlightenment and the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions.
All of the above, freedom, free enterprise, free speech, science, industrialism, the expectation of continual improvements in happiness and the standard of living, reason etc. the Left are trying to and have destroyed.
Also, it is not “racist” to expect immigrants to a country work to hard, pay taxes, assimiliate, obey the law etc. just as immigrants that came to Australia, Canada, USA, NZ used to do, back in the day.
Not all cultures are equal (a common lie by the Left is that they are) and if people wish to retain dysfunctional cultures they should stay where they can enjoy such cultures such as Somalia to quote one in the news in the United States. Why else would people leave such places for a better life? The better life includes a better culture and a better, freer economic system and other freedoms that come with the new culture etc..
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I agree with what you say and ask another question. Can anyone name a policy that improves people’s lives that has come from anywhere outside the West? The Arabs found zero which is very handy but what else have they created? The Chinese invented paper and gunpowder admittedly but everything since was borrowed from the West. There are many non-Westerners inventing and developing things today but all are based on something that a Westerner began.
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Actually, I think it was the Indians who invented zero.
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I read that too.
And what a transformative concept it really was.
Higher mathematics beyond simple counting depends on Zero.
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‘ … the culture that brought freedom to the world …’
The Colonial powers of Europe enslaved millions over hundreds of years, by the time they reached Australia they were theoretically more enlightened.
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They did. True.
And so did all other cultures at some point or another in their histories.
But you forget to add that the European “Colonial powers”, (well, one at least) brought the end to slavery in the western world.
Slavery still exists, but generally not in modern, free, democratic Judeo/Christian Western societies.
You need to look elsewhere to find it.
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Please add to your list:
Desiderius Erasmus
Renee Descartes
Hugo Grotius
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How fortunate for the West – and not just the USA – that Donald Trump won the last presidential election. Not only does he have the unique persona to fight those who undermine the great traditions and values of western civilisation, but he has gathered individuals around him who have the ability and belief to support his agenda. And hopefully, when he is gone, they will continue the fight.
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In some ways the 2020 abomination worked out for good. It revealed the back stabbers. It let the Uni-party fail and fail badley. If Trump had won in 20, would he have been as effective, or would it have been just more Uni-party obstruction the next four years, followed by a Uni-party president elected in 24?
But still the damage done was massive.
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Think how things might be today were the Uni-party still not doing all it can to obstruct Trump’s agenda.
Take the progressive media, judges and Jerome Powell, please!
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As well as the near miss assassination attempt.
Maybe there is a God!
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There is. And He’s a very good shot.
Satan?
Not so much.
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Our biggest problem is that most people refuse to believe that the people in charge couldn’t possibly be evil.
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“Our biggest problem is that most people refuse to believe that the people in charge couldn’t possibly be evil.”
THAT has been the greatest propaganda coup of all time. Its no different to our ancestors believing the Pope or the King had a direct line to God, something that you were carefully fed from birth.
Look at the numbers who still believe democracy is the greatest form of Govt, and the problem is we just need to change the party in power to achieve nirvana.
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Can anyone name one place or civilisation that ever achieved nirvana or even close to it?
The powers that run this world don’t care which ruler you choose.
They care only that you keep choosing to be ruled.
Just vote some clown in to solve your problems rather than do it yourself.
Never worked, never will.
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That’s 97% of Australians.
How do you think we got 34% AnAl?
(That’s Albo for the uninformed.)
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Or Anthony Albanese our Prime Minister for those overseas
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Can someone please take over from the late lamented Pickering and produce a new Pickering calendar of the present PM and his cabinet
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Johannes Leak or Mark Knight?
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The Australian/Commentary has a Daily Cartoon –
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary
Here is a Leak cartoon.
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Pigs might Fly!
But Larry Pickering would have done something ruder and funnier.
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Along the lines of:
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was getting people to believe he did not exist”
More:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/14507/the-greatest-trick-the-devil-ever-pulled
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Actually no, the biggest problem is people think the Government is either competent or infallible, when neither is true.
Even worse, they think Government is composed of “experts”….
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Bumped from yesterday
FWIW
A couple of Eva-Vlaardingerbroeks items
https://www.facebook.com/nicholasblack14/videos/-youtube-censors-dutch-right-wing-commentator-eva-vlaardingerbroeks-viral-great-/739749241851488/?mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=BgdTMINXjdgM9t9F
Lets you read the captions
And
“Democracy is dead”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZJ6jz9FVNro
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The Big Problem with Europe is that you have an unelected EU Commission based in Brussels and an elected EU Parliament in Strasbourg.
The EU Commission seems to have all the Power whilst the EU Parliament doesn’t seem to have much Power at all.
It’s no wonder that a lot of Europeans are getting frustrated and is one of the reasons for BREXIT. The EU Commission was passing Laws that over rided the elected British Guv’ment.
Not any more. Look forward to other Nations exiting the EU IMHO.
What is the point of having a National Guv’ment within the EU?
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But was it an exit in name only?
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Don’t know but it did create an opportunity for NZ to sign a trade agreement of sorts with just the UK(most of it – the Irish Question).
The agreement with the EU subsequently, that Jacinda personally intervened in in order to cement in place some woke provisions that NZ was resisting, is just the usual ideological/trade barrier that the EU has always erected.
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The UN is exerting a similar influence over Australian law. Australia should remove itself to observer status at the UN and reexamine all treaties Australia has subscribed to using Australia First as the guiding principle.
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Most Oz Pollie-Muppets seem to be globo-corporate statist pigs and thereby hangs the problem.
And who dares call it TREASON?
Again; per Marcus Tullius Cicero:
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear”
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Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it does, none dare call it treason.
Sir John Harrington, English courtier. 1561 – 1612
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European Economic Union as it was first known has been accused of being a United Nations leftist creation and model for the UN left New World Order.
ABC Radio programme 24 Hours discussed this subject and produced a Special Supplement in February 1992 “Whatever Happened To The New World Order?”
Of the interesting headings
Who Gives The Orders in The New World Order – Dr Susan George, an international expert on debt and development, analyses the effects on the market driven New World Order on developing countries.
The New World Order: Gold or God – Dr Chandra Muzaffar, a Malaysian Islamic scholar, argues that the supporters of New World Order have a deliberately narrow concept of human rights.
The New World Disorder – Professor Benedict Anderson of Cornell University concludes that the world is, in fact, not moving towards order at all, but towards disorder.
Much much more in this very interesting and informative publication.
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There is no man alive more destructive of the Left’s evil plans than President Donald TRUMP.
That’s why the Left have spent over a decade trying to cancel him via lies, propaganda, lawfare and everything else, up to and including attempted assassination
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Let’s hope that Trump can shake up the Europeans, but he has many enemies that are trying to enslave their countries and their economies and toxic, crazy W & S is their first priority.
Matt Ridley’s estimate that the clueless net zero mess would cost the world 100 trillion $ a year is a disaster and yet so far nobody seems to begin to understand what that means.
And if Aussies are really stupid enough to engage in this crazy agenda it could cost us 7 to 9 trillion $ for just 15 to 20 years and then a massive toxic cleanup and we’ll then have to refinance another replacement.
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The acceleration of the destruction of Once Great Britain that Herr Starmer is responsible for, and the fact that people apparently voted for him, although few voted due to apathy, is simply beyond belief.
If people don’t remain permanently vigilant and active against the Left, they WILL take over as we can see in all Western countries.
At least the people of the United States were sensible enough to see this and elected TRUMP, despite an extremely questionable election result which put O’Biden there for four years. That however turned out to be fortuitous because it enabled TRUMP to form a new team mostly devoid of Deep State Leftist traitors.
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leaners outnumber lifters, the left is cemented in place and cannot be moved until the nation is bankrupt
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In all Western nations all is not what it seems. Take Australia for instance where the majority seem to think that if you vote LNP all the problems will simply disappear…WRONG. The LNP is equally infested with left leaning politicians. The current opposition leader is a perfect example. If the LNP regains power it’ll be policies similar to ALP but with a different salesman and their left policies will be implemented far more subtly so that the unwashed masses don’t realise it’s still happening.
Take Climate Change! The “targets “ are gone but the net zero dogma & the Paris Accord are still there. Media control/censorship will remain as will many other policies. It’s happened before! What ever happened to Tony Abbot, thrown out & replaced with. Leftist virus, Turnbull! That worked well??? A very good cunning thief!!!
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If that’s what the majority thought then the LNP would have a primary vote above 50%
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I think he meant the majority of Liberal voters. I get tired of my rusted on lib voting mates complaining about ALP policies that are exactly the same as the LNP,s. Or worse, policies the LNP implemented or floated in the first place
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Don’t ever forget that Aussie W CF is just 24% and S CF is 15%. See Wiki.
That means that these ON / OFF lunacies only provide an average generation period of 4.8 years for W and 3.1 years for S if they could last 20 years. And that’s a very big IF.
Does anyone really think these toxic W & S junk piles are the best way to power a modern economy and provide us with both energy security and national security?
Then what about the extra horrendous ongoing cost of TOXIC batteries to supply eastern Australia?
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We must stop averaging. The average CF is useless when it comes to power.
W&S have a guaranteed energy capability of zero. Zero, nothing more and nothing less.
If you doubt what I say, then ask yourself this, how many MWHr will the solar farms produce tonight? Or how many MWHr will the windmills produce when the wind isn’t blowing?
Every time we use the CF numbers we are assisting the W&S team to turn off reliable power. We must stop doing this.
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ENG-IAN , Where are you talking form and to whom? One cannot understand your use of acronyms. If you cannot write English , why the hell do you bother posting.
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Coochin Kid
CF means capacity factor, W for wind, S for solar. Anton Lang (tonyfromoz) has calculated the CF of the NEM (eastern Oz grid) of W as less than 30% and S 17.6 %. He used AEMO data and calculated weekly. He did a sterling job and should be congratulated!
It is hard to calculate the CF of coal-fired plants as they, thanks to the renewable energy target (RET) legislation, take second place on the grid and must cut back on production when renewables are supplying the needed electricity. The head engineer at Loy Yang power plant said the they can supply electricity 98.5 % of the time but are constrained by the RET. Also the lignite plants in the Latrobe Valley have been putting electricity on the grid for about $40/MWh while the wholesale price averaged around $80-$100/MWh, thanks to renewables. Mega watt hour = MWh.
John
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Capacity Factor
Wind and Solar
MWHr = Megawatt-Hour
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Perhaps you’re on the wrong site.
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TLAs (nominally Three Letter Acronyms or Two) are not easy for people not familiar with the subject whether it be engineering, medical or economics.
To broaden the support of this site and the author new chums should be welcomed and politely assisted in their understanding – no need for disrespect.
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Previous military invasions of Europe included Umayyad Invasions in the 8th Century and the Ottomans, 14th-17th Centuries plus others and the taking of European slaves (the Barbary Corsairs took about a million and the Ottomans took about 500,000 to 1 million).
Europe had defenders such as Charles Martel, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, Vlad Dracul (yes, Dracula) and many others.
Dracula’s methods were extreme and cruel (he was a psychopath) but necessary against an army who desired nothing more than their own deaths as supposed “martyrs” (same mentality today). However the sight of thousands of their Ottoman comrades impaled on stakes was enough to deter the most determined wannabe martyr.
These days, young indoctrinated Leftists don’t even believe in freedom and are definitely unwilling to fight for it.
They see the religion of the invader, despite its oppression of women and human rights, as inspirational and empowering, especially for women (proven by their silence about atrocities against women in Europe and elsewhere).
Furthermore, this time the Moors have been invited in, they didn’t invade, although they are mostly comprised of military age males. Removing them from Europe might not even be possible. It is absolutely not going to end well.
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Was he? Or was he just a pragmatist who understood that his best chance against a vastly superior force of religious zealots was inspiring psychological terror among enemy troops? I think Vlad Tepes got a bum rap from historians. He did what he to do to protect his territory and his people from Islamists. He may have been a tyrant and an all-around terrifying guy … but the alternative was worse.
Sidenote: You are referring to Dracul’s Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler). Vlad Dracul was the father who was deposed and sought Ottoman support to retake his throne in exchange for allegiance to the Ottoman Empire. Vlad Tepes was the son who threw the Ottomans out a generation later.
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Thanks for the correction. Vlad Dracul was the father, Vlad Dracula was the son (Vlad the Impaler). I accidentally left the “a” off Dracul.
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I have a strange premonition that if the left in USA get wind of these Dracul comments they’ll stick the Dracula label on Trump. The Dems will grab anything at the moment as they’ve run out their own ideas,
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He’ll be able to make a “Vlad-like use” of all their dead but still standing wind towers as warning not to venture that idea again
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The Impaler had very deep knowledge and understanding is islam and there was a very good reason for him impaling the bodies of their dead.
If a muslim dies on jihad he is guaranteed a place in paradise, no matter the damage to his body at the time of death. He must then be buried within three days in that state for him to be ritually pure.
By impaling the corpses, and doing more damage to them Vlad was taking away their entry to paradise.
It’s why the talibs in Afghanistan got so upset at one stage when there were talib bodies all over a slope below an American position rotting in the sun and the American commander had them burned.
It’s also why muslims are so keen on mutilating the bodies of enemies after a battle.
The easiest way to reduce the number of wannabe muslim martyrs is to make it plane and clear, by doing it, that their bodies will not be ritually pure. Burn them, slip a bit of bacon or ham under the tongue of the body are the easiest and quickest way to do it.
Don’t limit yourself to pandering to their beliefs when fighting them, make them not want to fight you by using their own beliefs against them.
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1529 and 1683 Ottoman assaults on Vienna are hardly mentioned in western history but were critical in the survival of Christian Europe. It seems that our history knowledge is very British in its emphasis.
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Vlad the Impaler was NOT a psychopath!
We all do what we have to do.
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This looks so bad…
https://x.com/MigrationWatch/status/1974503518733054039
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Muammar Gaddafi leader of Libya (by coup) gave a speech in Timbuktu, Mali April 10, 2006 in which he foresaw:
“We have 50 million Muslims in Europe. There are signs that Allah will grant Islam victory in Europe—without swords, without guns, without conquest—will turn it into a Muslim continent within a few decades”.
Enoch Powell, the 1960’s Trump(?), gave his Rivers of Blood speech on 20 April 1968. This ITV review marking the 50th anniversary (5mins) is a good starting point.
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Immigration, energy, and Defence are the three most important policies that confront us.
Regarding immigration we should only accept those who commit to Western values.
We should be self sufficient in energy and fuels.
And spending as much on defence procurement as possible.
Then, perhaps, our grandchildren may have a chance of a reasonable life.
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I value what I own, I am careful on what I purchase and I mind my money like I earned it.
I think the government should adopt these simple criteria.
At present, they look at what I own and scheme to take it. They spend on frivolous and wasteful projects, eg SH2 and third world immigrants who will never contribute and they raise taxes and p!ss the takings against any of a number of walls, whether it be green dreams, arts that nobody would pay to see or welfare to people who’d spit in the face of the very taxpayer who funds them.
Until taxation is pulled in and we get to dictate our own expenditure, then we will continue to have a government that is not for the people. We’ll be looking up the third world in a couple of years.
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All immigrants, refugee or otherwise, should agree to respect the laws of this country, should subscribe to tolerant western values including how they will bring up their children, should have English and Math skills equal at least to year 10 credit percentile and should have skills in demand in Australia. If they achieve citizenship, a breach of this would mean they have lied in their application and citizenship should be revoked and deportation should follow.
In terms of defence, local procurement and building skills and capabilities locally should be a priority.
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Hmmmmmm.
What do migrants agree to when they take out Citizenship? Isn’t there an Oath of some sort?
Also, all migrants should be taught how to swim or at least float and ‘doggie paddle’.
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When I became an Australian citizen in 1980 all I was asked was “could I swear allegiance to Queen Elizabeth II”. Being British I said I think I could just about manage that and was told OK your in. No fee or charge.
Not sure what is required now but when my niece got her residency around 2007 she had to jump through hoops.
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But then she got a good job in Spain and so never came out. She has been in Spain ever since.
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All cultures and peoples have practiced slavery.
And despite endless lies by the Left it was Europeans and Americans who first abolished slavery and prevented it happening further.
It was Africans and Arabs who mostly sold African slaves. European slaves were also taken by Arabs but no one complains about that.
How many people have heard of the British West African Squadron, 1808-1867, written out of history today?
Many of the primitive cultures and peoples idolised by the Left still practice slavery to this day.
The United States’ first foreign war, The first Barbary War 1801-1805, was to stop Arabs taking US slaves from US merchant ships in the Mediterranean or paying enormous “tribute”. At one point the US was paying something like 20% (possibly more) of its budget as ransom payments to Arabs, much like today, come to think of it but today it’s called “foreign aid” (but TRUMP put a stop to it). That war was started after the Pasha of Tripoli Yusuf Qaramanli declared war on the United States due to late payments of ransoms. It was Thomas Jefferson as President that first refused to pay ransom, a policy that has been in place ever since.
That war is also the reason why the US Marine Corps hymn starts:
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Even the Transatlantic slave trade to the Americas never could have happened without the participation of African slavers. Europeans were absolutely terrified of entering the Dark Continent due to having no resistance to tropical diseases. They relied on tribes in the African interior to procure their slaves and bring them to the coast. The transatlantic slave would not have been possible without the Dahomey, the Alawites, the Ashanti, and dozens of other tribes providing ‘raw materials’.
Ironically, the Ashanti also originated the Kente cloth design, much beloved by descendants of African slaves (and Democrat politicians) in America. Nothing made European slavers happier than seeing warriors clad in Kente cloth emerging from the interior, because it mean more ‘product’ was right behind them. It’s always fun to see race-essentialist leftists LARPing in Kente clot without realizing it’s origins.
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“Without the participation”?
All the Europeans did was tap into the existing African slave trading networks. They weren’t sending armed parties up country to gather slaves, they merely purchased them at already existing slave markets.
What is interesting in East Africa and the legacy of slave taking for the arabs on that coast. If you come across a muslim name on an East Africa, something like Barack Hussein Obama, you know you are looking at a descendant of the locals who converted to islam so that when they delivered their slave coffles to places like Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar they wouldn’t be grabbed by the arabs as well.
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‘Trump wonders whether NATO can survive in the long run.’
Canada is a founding member and should be able to pick up the slack if America quits.
After hostilities, with the Russian bear in shackles, the organisation could be demobbed.
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Canda only has 4,000 more defense personnel than Australia at 59,000.
I don’t think Canda will contribute much at all with Gen. Jennie Carignan in charge of giving out free bras.
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Large standing armies are a thing of the past, intelligent robotics and precise targeting is the future.
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LOL
America has 750 military bases across 80 countries, each one manned by human troops. Robots/drones have their uses, but there is no substitute for boots on the ground. The same lessons learned in WWI and WWII still apply today. Technology can do lots of wonderful things, but it can’t clear and hold a city. No matter how many newfangled gadgets you create, there is no substitute for the infantry soldier and his rifle.
Here is what happens when you pit AI against meatspace grunts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7bCOqDZpJA
Marines Outsmart DARPA’s Advanced AI
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Australia is in defensive mode, we have approximately 33,000 military personnel, land, sea and air.
China has the largest standing army in the world, which will be thinned out in the years ahead. They are also in defensive mode, reinforcing the border with India. With new surveillance technologies only a small detachment will be needed to maintain the outpost.
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LOL indeed.
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Ah, a Palantir/Anduril shill.
That explains the ignorance in your posts.
The future of war is industrial. Quantity beats quality, especially when quality is only affordable in small amounts.
Guess which country smelts 1 billion tonnes of steel per year?
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Think quality –
Canada mooted signing up public servants to boost numbers and got howled down.
“Top soldier has second thoughts about recruiting public servants for reserves
Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan had faced public backlash and questions about her plan.”
https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/top-soldier-public-servants-reserves
And “1 in 4 Canadians are now bureaucrats”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/12/04/great-success-135/
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During WW2, the UK shifted a lot of “sensitive” data and technology to the US for safekeeping.
Should hostilities arise in Europe, Canada would be the likely choice this time around. We can already see pre-emptive moves by the Swedes to share sensitive fighter technology with Canada, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Ukrainian drone technology will also end up there in preference to the US.
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Maybe Australia should make a bid for this. We once manufactured our own (albeit French designed) supersonic fighters which the Swedish fighters grew out of.
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Remember that in WW 2 we BUILT (not just bolted together) P & W 1830 radial engines
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Australia built original classic Hornet jet fighters at Williamstown Victoria for the RAAF.
Most recently Boeing Australia designed and built several for development for the RAAF Ghost Bat full size drone jet fighters that will fly alongside RAAF piloted aircraft as force multipliers, and for dangerous missions without risking the life of a pilot.
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Relying on the “Freeland connections” there?
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If you believe that Canada can or will “take up the (post-US) slack, you are fantasising.
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Judging from the tone of the National Security document towards Europe, I’m not sure why the Trump Administration hasn’t fully withdrawn from NATO. They have stated that they will not put boots on the ground in the event of expanded Russian territorial ambitions. Maybe they are only remaining to Veto any expansion of membership or to prevent the enactment of Article 5?
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Approximately 85% of the world’s refugees are muslims. But they don’t seek asylum in the 56 muslim countries.
They only seek asylum in non-muslim countries.
But why??
50 shades of violent undesirable cults…
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The rich Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia know better than to take these people who will always be trouble causers and a burden. They are unlikely to assimilate even into well off Muslim countries
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Just as in the western world there were Catholics and Protestants, in the Muslim world there are Sunni and Shia.
Some still don’t get along.
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Theocratic imperative to create a global caliphate. Emigrating to countries that are already Islamic would be redundant.
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And Indonesia has the world’s largest Muslim population and admits Muslim visitors without need for a visa.
This is one reason why people smugglers move their clients via Indonesia to board vessels to sail to Australia.
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As Europe goes, so goes Australia. Mass immigration regardless of ability or willingness to assimilate, regardless of having skills in demand. Reduce emissions at any cost, regardless of what the major emitters are doing. Stifle freedom of speech and expression and access to information from Government and from the world at large etc. etc.
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Gaz,
It is easy and valid to claim that a sector, the minerals sector, has employed a tiny part of the Australian population over the last 50 years, contributing enormously to Australia being an attractive country to migrate to, or to take over by infiltration or warfare.
Yet these key people, the successful explorers and miners, have had very little say in how the wealth was spent and how they would like it spent in the future. (Disclosure – I am one of them, so experienced to speak).
Indeed, the “demonise the dirty miners” tactic is alive as we speak. Decisions on national matters like immigration to Australia, its size and choice of candidates, is locked up against legitimate inquiry from parties wanting to know more about our immigration.
The crux of all this? The main people generating national wealth are the main people bring slagged by the largely-hidden people carving up the wealth for their own personal ideals.
This is just so wrong. We cannot go forwards by the vilification of achievers or from the concealment of the identities doing it, their past actions, how and why they have unofficial and secretive control over matters of national importance like immigration.
It is time for a big rethink. The concept of Rule by Concealed Bureaucracy has failed, as the example of immigration shows. Decision making has to have some reserved seats for those who have demonstrated ability and will to Advance Australia Fairly.
Geoff S
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Well summarised Geoff.
As someone who has spent his working life in the resources industry, public feelings went from rapid development as the country needed it at the start to being a pariah at the end.
Even the Aus Bureau of Statistics is afraid of the word “mining” in their main summary reports – now Rural goods and Non-rural goods! Shheeshh!!! The top export earner for the nation is being rebranded.
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A question that no progressive is willing to answer.
If you believe in open borders so much, why do you have a locked door on your house and a fence around your house?
Do you believe everyone is welcome or don’t you?
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And why don’t they invite “refugees” to stay with them?
If it were not for the double standards of the Left they would have no standards whatsoever.
Look how quickly rich Leftists like Obama and Oprah had illegal immigrants rounded up and expelled in 2022 when they were deposited at Martha’s Vineyard. I’m sure they had plenty of spare bedrooms in their mansions to accommodate them and give them refuge.
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Straw man statement, who’s demanding unregulated immigration ?
Pure scaremongering
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Define “unregulated”.
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Ponzi asks “who’s demanding unregulated immigration?”
Answer: The same people who are doing it.
Geoff S
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“Selective” will do that for you
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Some evidence GS ?
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For wrecking the German economy by aiming to end both nuclear *and* fossil power, while letting in a million ‘refugees’ from the Middle East in 2015, Angela Merkel might yet go down as the worst Chancellor in German history. Given who she is up against for that title, it would be some achievement.
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Good point Anton.
She has excellent competition in that regard.
I think mass civil unrest is coming to at least one country in Europe/UK next year.
The pot has reached boiling point.
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An East German Stasi.
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Yep, it is almost certain that she was a Stasi agent runner in Western Europe during the ’80s.
About the only set of Stasi personnel files the Germans didn’t manage to lay their hands on were those of the agent runners. However, the pattern of Merkel’s travel and visits to the West, unaccompanied by any Stasi minders, is a pretty sure sign that she was herself Stasi.
Just as her father was.
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I was just trying to think of culture in history that has disarmed its’ citizens to the extent the modern Western countries have.
Sounds like most will barely allow kitchen knives and pointy farm implements.
(Of course, as we know, farming* causes Climate Change.)
Excepting us in America.
We are still holding on to Amendment No.2 so far.
But in most Blue US States, self defense which results in physical harm to the person trying hurt or rob you, (they’re victims of society ya’ know) will get you charged with a crime.
Then again, if Western culture is diluted, then we won’t have a Western society to victimize people, which is the only one that’s ever done so … problem solved.
And now there’s the poor British guy that was arrested for posting a photo of himself holding a friend’s gun (legally owned) while on holiday in America.
As an American, it is interesting to be in a position where our POTUS is thought of as the last hope for saving Freedom.
While at the same time everything is our fault.
*(Not to worry, Amazon makes food now and will deliver it in a driverless EV, if you have the app or go to their portal and remember your password to log in.)
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“No great civilization is destroyed from without until it has destroyed itself within” – Will Durant.
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“I was just trying to think of culture in history that has disarmed its’ citizens to the extent the modern Western countries have.”
Here in Oz civilians have actively been disarmed for decades, equally as such our military has been reduced in both front line troops and military hardware. I think the mantra was along the lines of “we are at peace why do we need to defend our self”. Interestingly the defence forces scream out for more money but it is not forth coming. We have however donated something over a billion dollars in cash and hardware to Ukraine. Money probably better spent preparing our own country.
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Everyone is at peace until a war breaks out.
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Yet not even Trump is willing publicly to break down mass immigration into the West by worldview and name the real challenge, which is not a new one.
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The West prospered under the Judeo-Christian ethos. Now, the West is falling into ruin because of the growing antipathy towards Judaism and Christianity, both based on the patriarchy of Abraham. However, a third ethos, Islam, has aligned itself with the Abrahamic faiths of Judaism and Christianity. This is a deception which the West cannot afford to indulge because it creates a false cultural and moral equivalence between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All cultures aren’t equal, and Western civilization is being erased by a culture it has imported via mass migration, a culture which claims Abrahamic origins but aims to erase Western civilization and make it part of the umma. That’s hardly Abrahamic.
My opinion being stated on the subject, as a Christian, I don’t hate Muslims, I don’t hate anyone and I won’t proselytize for Christianity. It’s not up to me to convert anyone, that’s the role of God’s Holy Spirit and the result will not be an open gate to worldwide Christianity. The gate is narrow for a purpose.
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Well said.
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Some here may be interested in reading about the “5th Fleeters”.
Little known fact – these immigrants from all Nationalities signed up to 2 year contracts to work for the Australian Govt. wherever needed. An excerpt from the website:
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President Clinton got it wrong.
It is NOT the economy stupid.
It is the people, stupid.
Control the way people think, and you control EVERYTHING. 💪
The E.U. and British governments are now controlled by the progressive Left aka neo-Marxists.
Their core policies are not about the economy but the social engineering of the people. 😱
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