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Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves. They are people who believe that peace treaties, appeasement, and disarmament produce peace.
Walter E. Williams
October 27, 2009
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This attitude extends to their attitudes toward the natural right to keep and bear arms.
It appears that with the increasing levels of violent crime in Europe and England combined with the specter of a reformulated USSR the attitude may be dissolving. The question is, “Will it be enough and soon enough to save them?”
The Ukraine may have been too late in learning. Israel took a heavy blow before wising up a small amount.
Europeans are perfectly happy to have the US fight their wars but will fall to the invaders they have encouraged. US needs to decouple
That’s a more general attitude of a multi-axis dependency that has been encouraged across Europe: important, difficult things are someone else’s problem. Across the board, government (i.e. people who run government) are happy to offer “We’ll do that for you” first and then “we’ll be the only ones that can do that” next. And then the government people get a skim of that cash, a skim that grows parasitically larger by year. Eventually (Soon), the THAT which is supposed to delivered becomes lower in quality, more delayed in delivery, then practically nonexistent as the expense of delivery is at the detriment to the skim.
Wanna piss of a Eurocrat (or a US based wannabe Eurocrat)? Tell them that you spend money, time and effort to be capable of armed self defense because what you defend is worth it, and at minimum you need to survive until backup arrives, with a realistic expectation of the likelihood of that backup arriving and when. Whereas they have made that same calculation: what they could be defend is not worth that time, effort or expense. Ergo: you’re worth more than they are, by self-evaluation. Money talks, BS walks.
So much of what Americans take for granted are not even acknowledged in most of the world. The rights of the individual are seen as a destructive force to the “harmony” of a nation.
I am always glad when I end up back in the US.
The American people would be happy to defend ourselves, but a foreign-controlled ruling class makes that impossible. They have gaslit the people into passivity, and imported a replacement population, and made racism (i.e., defending yourself against those not like yourself) the highest and worst crime. You can find vids of whites being assaulted by nons every day, but they don’t make the national news. If the reverse happens, it’s everywhere.
Systematic destruction of western nations, but ONLY western nations, via colonization.
France hasn’t had a serious army since 1815. Holland has never had one, as far as I can remember (while it fought a war for independence that lasted 80 years, with a break in the middle, that mostly involved mercenary troops).
The one place in Europe I can think of it that has serious defensive capability is Switzerland, and of course that’s also the one place where gun ownership is ubiquitous.
Similar problems appear elsewhere in the world. Taiwan isn’t really capable of self defense either, though it has a geographic advantage compared to Ukraine. Taiwan would be basically impregnable if they treated the problem the way the Swiss do, but they haven’t chosen to go that route. A contributing factor likely is that until fairly recently (20 years ago or so) Taiwan was a dictatorship, not anything resembling a democracy, and of course dictators can’t abide armed citizens.
I take one exception to the statement that France has not had a serious army since 1815. The army that virtually alone stopped the Germans at the Marne in 1914 was a very serious army. Poorly trained and imbued with an idiotic worship of the primacy of the all out offensive, it was nonetheless loyal, brave and had in its upper leadership a cadre of men with steel spines and manganese in their veins. The Marne was for my money the most decisive battle of the 20th Century.
“Europeans are a people with little willingness to defend themselves.”
We are only slightly better off in that they couldn’t get a hard cadre of Americans to give up their guns.
Were a lot larger than Europe. And most of the gaslighting Rolf talked about is in the cities. Which is only a small part of America. That, and the fact that what it took to get here in the 17-1800’s was custom made to steal the adventurous population from around the world and bring them here.
Which left a lot of the world with a stagnate gene pool. And WW I & II crushed what was pretty much left of it.
At present I wouldn’t expect Europe to survive.
As Michael Yon says, “Either you testosterone up, or you get wiped out.”
That has been the way the world has always worked. It is, and it will be no different because we somehow dream of ourselves as special.
We have always had the ability. But as you question Joe, do we have the will?
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What’s that saying about leading a horse to water? Just because the Euroweenies are being victimized right and left in NO MEANS guarantees they are capable of learning from that fact. Hell….half of America would happily JOIN Europe in being willing victims.