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I hate to say this but please hear me out. For decades, I have made a daily Herculean effort to warn people about the dangers facing the West. My goal was to ensure that any auto-corrective process meant to address the problems would be a peaceful one. I fear that this window has closed. Prepare for astounding violence. It may not come tomorrow, next week, next month, or next year. But it is coming. Save this post.
Gad Saad @GadSaad
Posted on X June 27, 2026
I have been feeling rather optimistic about the U.S. recently. No mass riots. The No Kings protests have been peaceful. Gun owner rights are on the rise. The violent crime rate has been dropping (if you believe the stats). Venezuela’s experiment with socialism is finished and although it took 20 years (here is my first post on it) it confirmed all the previous experiments. Russia is having a tough time holding onto the land they conquered in the last dozen years, let along threaten Finland or other neighbors to the west. Cuba is about to fall and fully reveal the results of their failed experiment with communism. The illegal immigrants to the U.S. are being deported. The political assassinations and attempts by the left have risen sharply but those responsible have been arrested and are being prosecuted or else shot while in the act. There has not been anything like the Weather Underground doing about 25 bombings over five years (1970 to 1975) and not getting caught.
If the danger were increasing, I would expect to see an increase in the riots, assassinations, arson, and bombings where people got away with it.
But there are reasons to be concerned. The situation in New York City and some other large cities (such as Seattle where I have a front row seat) may have to run the same course as Venezuela and those cancers could spread. Canada and the U.K. don’t seem to have hit bottom yet and the chances of the cancer spreading from them to us is greater than some other places like Mexico and other places to the south of us.
The national debt continues to be my biggest concern. But I don’t see that being a driver of “astounding violence.” Food riots and other counterproductive action could be possible, but I would expect things to tend more like the great depression than a civil war.
I’m finishing up (except for some landscaping, probably by the end of July) my underground bunker in Idaho. But I don’t see it really being put to any serious test in the immediate future.
Thoughts? Is Saad right? Or is his prediction only valid in his country (Canada)?
He is specifically referencing the rise of aggressive Islamism, uncontrolled immigration, and the growing attempt to subjugate the Constitution to Sharia law.
Such things are completely unpredictable. Everything is stable until it isn’t.
As you have said many time, leftists are violent, it is in their nature. I don’t see a way to reconcile the left and right views of life, nature, and man. I only see two possibilities. Either the country splits somewhat peacefully with left in some areas, right in the other. Or there is violence and one side forces the other to live (or die) by its standards.
Even if there were to be a split, the leftists would immediately move to infiltrate conquer the conservative areas. They can’t live side-by-side with people opposed to them, it’s not in their nature.
Well, IIRC there’s this quotation of a Roman that goes something like; “If you want peace, prepare for war”.
“I have never advocated war except as means of peace, so seek peace, but prepare for war. Because war… War never changes. War is like winter and winter is coming.”
― Ulysses S Grant
“Is Saad right? Or is his prediction only valid in his country (Canada)?”
The US may yet weather it without that mass violence. As you said, there are good signs here.
But Canada? England? Most of Europe? Yes, large-scale violence is coming. Even if they simply capitulate entirely (no defensive violence of any kind), the forces taking them over will inflict massive violence on them, anyway – it is *explicitly* and *intentionally* part of what they do.
I hope for their sake that they engage in defensive violence, as that’s better than just waiting for it like most of the Jews did in the Holocaust (which Islam celebrates, by the way).
I’d agree that the US is in a better situation than most. If the West writ large can manage to expel the masses of incompatible immigrants peacefully in the next few years, then things will be OK. Cut benefits, prosecutions, close border to new entrants, etc. If that invasion continues unchecked as it has been, then yes, they’ll have a lot of blood in the streets because the numbers are getting too high; there are almost as many foreign military age males as domestic, but they are not tied down with property or family, and there are not enough jobs or money to go around. Most people have no idea how small the ethnic European ancestry population of the world is, and as South Africa demonstrates, when you have an envious and short-sighted majority in a country built by a hated minority, it will go badly for the minority.
So we are getting close to the point of no return for EU / Canada / Oz/ NZ, etc., but the US is getting better. It remains to be seen how much more Trump / Q can do.
The advantage that Europe has is that it is undeniable what a “European” is: A person who can trace their ancestry back many generations to Europe.
“Americans” are also mostly of European ancestry, but America has three important demographics within itself that do not descend from Europe, yet they are every bit as “American” as those who trace back to Europe.
Much easier for Europe to determine which residents “belong”.
Sadly, the political class in Europe has largely done away with that common-sense approach, and gone to the “you are fully whatever your passport says, so a Algerian man named Muhammad with a French passport is every bit as French as Pierre. ” If they don’t reverse course very soon, or at the very least stem the flow for now, they are looking at mass violence.
That is why the nationalist parties are surging in popularity so fast, and causing fear among the globalist ruling class.
It is the surge in right that gives me hope for Europe.
I’ll be spending a few days in Paris later this year and ask around a bit about the local view of the situation.
That rise in the right is their only chance, but it’s a numbers game, and the clock is ticking. If the cops routinely jail whites who protect themselves and their own while giving the invaders a pass for rape, murder, etc. then when things finally break it’ll be a massive revenge blood-letting from the pent-up anger.
If it take ten years before they rise to power, the numbers will have tipped hugely if decisively to the invaders favor, and the corrective violence will have to be correspondingly large.
They’ll also have to target the turn-coat cops and politicians at that time, too, so… the EU nation’s energy footprints will be significantly reduced for a while.
Mass deportations is the kinder, gentler solution. Ethnic cleansing and civil war is the alternative.
Good! fewer invaders and fewer turncoat police and politicians means they will actually meet their Global Warming emissions reductions.
The difficulty with the politicians is the same as in America, though. Where, exactly, do they live? The’ll have to be found in order to receive their long overdue correction and lesson in proper representation, patriotism, and loyalty. .
The people of Europe don’t agree with their political class, and at some point in the future that disagreement will come to a boil.
Democrats repudiated the principle of peaceful transition of power in 2016. They’ve been waging war since.
Many of their leaders have promised they will effectively end the constitution the moment they gain enough power.
Buy more ammo.
Most definitely. Precious metals; Brass, Lead, and Copper as well as other vital chemicals.
I do not anticipate initiating force against others, but above all I desire to return home unharmed each day, so I will object strenuously with as much force as I can muster, against others who would wish to harm me or deprive me of the fruits of my labors.
You have to break a few eggs in the Long March to the glorious New Man workers utopia with equality of results for all.
A bunker in Idaho? You have chosen wisely.
The only true equality is found in the grave.
As President Kennedy said, “The Peace of the Grave, and the Security of the Slave.” As you suggest, they will be equal when they are at peace, and that occurs once they are all safely dead.
Unless something changes, my birth country of Canada is probably lost. Right now, it is the appeaser and DEI crowd in control. Only the Conservative Party has any chance to bring things back to center and they’ve been out of power for a while. All of the other parties are competing to out-Left each other. The NDP is pretty much the Communist Party in everything but name.
Saad’s warning is for Canada. Alberta seeking independence is a warning sign. Quebec tried and failed but their grievance is cultural, not economic. And they were given extra privileges so their tale of oppression rings hollow with them as the privileged animals on the farm.
Alberta, on the other hand, is one of the economic engines of Canada and many there and out west in general are tired of Ontario and Quebec taking from them like a piggyback and feeding scraps in return. Similar complaint here about Red vs. Blue states. If they get any traction on leaving Confederation, Canada is history. The blind spot I feel the Albertan independence supporters have is, like Quebec, they’ll be an independent country in the middle of Canada and life will be largely as it is except with new passports and currency.
No, a province separating from Confederation ends the Canadian experiment like the American Civil War tried to do here. Canada will devolve into civil war even if it a shadow war of politics and economic warfare. There will be shooting, of course, but the government in charge will treat them as terrorists and eradicate them in ways that make Ruby Ridge look like peaceful euthanasia.
I will never return to Canada to live. I am hoping that the social unraveling will hold off for a generation to at least allow my nieces and nephews a chance at a normal life of sorts before it all goes sideways. Or we can all be surprised like with Arab Spring and the tipping point is just ready and waiting for the one small, seemingly insignificant push to rip it apart.
Canada is disarming its populace for what comes next. The Liberals and NDP have plans and involves doing even more to the country than they are already doing. COVID passports, ala “Papers, bitte!” was trialed along with fitting for jackboots and Trudeau and his follow-ons do like the fit. They tried them out on the Ottawa truckers and found it mostly worked. Just waiting for the right opportunity. A significant Albertan independence movement that isn’t crushed and makes headway might be just the thing.
I give Canada a few more decades before it is Canada in name only or it comes apart. Almost happened in the 1990s. It can happen now.
Alberta successfully leaving Canada, and either becoming its own independent country or a US territory (both have plusses and minuses) will certainly accelerate the, ah, reorganization of the rest of Canada. If they do the legal steps properly and vote to leave but Ottawa tells them NO (a la the southern states in the US circa 1860), then it’s a fast-track to an unusually civil civil war.
“an unusually civil civil war”
You say that, but you should realize there are a significant portion of the sections in the Geneva Checklist that are due to Canadians.
Latest polling (as of early-to-mid June 2026) shows support for Alberta secession/independence as a clear minority position, generally in the 15-25% range, with strong and growing opposition around 65-75%.
The fact it is happening at all is a concern. Quebec tried it for, frankly, BS cultural whining. Alberta is taking a swing at it in the post-Quebec attempt and got it as far as a question to be voted upon. Quebec did it before it was even a possibility and their attempt, had it succeeded, would have sparked a civil war in Canada. I lived through it and, I assure you, the sentiment about Quebec independence was seen as “Build a wall around the place and fill it with water” and “Every francophone in the Canadian Forces would be considered a traitor and dealt with accordingly”.
I agree an Albertan independence referendum question will fail to get a majority. Its mere existence is the concern. It won’t be the last and, eventually, a province will succeed it getting to a majority position to actively considered leaving Confederation. Then the fireworks, politically, socially, militarily, will begin.
Two things: I’d be skeptical of poling data, as I assume they are done more to manage public perceptions than to uncover the truth; and secondly, is that a poll of all Canadians, all Albertans, or likely Albertan voters? That would make a huge difference in how to interpret it (assuming it honest, which isn’t a given).
More whistling past the graveyard and spiking the football on the 40 yardline. Socialism isn’t dead in Venezuela or anywhere else. It wasn’t dead in 1989 and it never will be. Communists have taken over major cities. They are poised to entirely take over the Democratic party. There are enough “mainstream” democrats and even some republicans with extreme TDS such that they will vote with them and thus have a very real chance of winning November’s midterms. It is highly unlikely that this ends peacefully. Complacency is a killer.
You have an underground bunker? For what? No violence? Are you kidding us?
What you failed to note is that, by the sense of 80% of us our elections are no good. We don’t know what parts if any of government is legit because of that. And now we have birthright citizenship ensconed by judical fiat. That bodes ill if, as is the norm the majority changes hands in the mid-terms. Trump will be legally hogtied if not outright booted out of office. Trannies calling for murder of conservatives in today’s news. Walz pardoning pedos who are IAs. Commies out of the closet and on the rise. IDK. I think you and Gaad need a tete-a-tete to iron out your difference. And you can bulldoze that bunker – according to you.
Raw Egg Nationalist (British) is of the same opinion as Gad Saad.
True….the left WILL burn it all down in order to rule the ashes if that’s all the options they have left.
“Better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.”