Posted on 02/27/2018 7:00:16 AM PST by Kaslin
In a surprise overtime victory in the finals of the Olympic men's hockey tournament, the Russians defeated Germany, 4-3.
But the Russians were not permitted to have their national anthem played or flag raised, due to a past doping scandal. So, the team ignored the prohibition and sang out the Russian national anthem over the sounds of the Olympic anthem.
One recalls the scene in "Casablanca," where French patrons of Rick's saloon stood and loudly sang the "La Marseillaise" to drown out the "Die Wacht am Rhein" being sung by a table of German officers.
When the combined North-South Korean Olympic team entered the stadium, Vice President Mike Pence remained seated and silent. But tens of thousands of Koreans stood and cheered the unified team.
America may provide a defensive shield for the South, but Koreans on both sides of the DMZ see themselves as one people. And, no fool, Kim Jong Un is exploiting the deep tribal ties he knows are there.
Watching the Russians defiantly belt out their anthem, one recalls also the 1968 summer Olympics in Mexico City where sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos stood on the podium, black gloved fists thrust skyward in a Black Power salute, asserting their separate racial identity.
Western elites may deplore the return of nationalism. But they had best not dismiss it, for assertions of national and tribal identity appear to be what the future is going to be all about.
Some attendees at the CPAC conclave this past week were appalled that Britain's Nigel Farage and France's Marion Le Pen were present.
But Farage was the man most responsible for Brexit, the historic British decision to leave the EU. Le Pen is perhaps the most popular figure in a National Front party that won 35 percent of the vote in the runoff election won by President Emmanuel Macron.
And the most unifying stand of the NF appears to be "Let France be France!" The French people do not want their country invaded by unassimilable millions of migrants from Africa and the Islamic world.
They want France to remain what she has been. Is this wrong?
Is preservation of a country, the national family one grew up in, not conservative?
In Hungary and Poland, ethnonationalism, the belief that nation-states are created and best suited to protect and defend a separate and unique people, with its separate and unique history and culture, is already ascendant.
Globalists may see the U.N., EU, NAFTA, TPP as stepping stones to a "universal nation" of all races, tribes, cultures and creeds. But growing numbers in every country, on every continent, reject this vision. And they are seeking to restore what their parents and grand-parents had, a nation-state that is all their own.
Nationalists like Farage, who seek to pull their countries out of socialist superstates like the EU, and peoples seeking to secede and set up new nations like Scotland, Catalonia, Corsica and Veneto today, and Quebec yesterday, are no more anti-conservative than the American patriots of Lexington and Concord who also wanted a country of their own.
Why are European peoples who wish to halt mass migration from across the Med, to preserve who and what they are, decried as racists?
Did not the peoples of African and Middle Eastern countries, half a century ago, expel the European settlers who helped to build those countries?
The Rhodesia of Spitfire pilot Ian Smith was a jewel of a nation of 250,000 whites and several million blacks that produced trade surpluses even when boycotted and sanctioned by a hating world.
When Smith was forced to yield power, "Comrade Bob" Mugabe took over and began the looting of white Rhodesians, and led his Shona tribesmen in a slaughter of the Matabele of rival Joshua Nkomo.
Eighty-five percent of the white folks who lived in Rhodesia, prior to "majority rule," are gone from Zimbabwe. More than half of the white folks who made South Africa the most advanced and prosperous country on the continent are gone.
Are these countries better places than they were? For whom?
Looking back over this 21st century, the transnational elite that envisions the endless erosion of national sovereignty, and the coming of a new world order of open borders, free trade and global custody of mankind's destiny, has triggered a counter-revolution.
Does anyone think Angela Merkel looks like the future?
Consider the largest countries on earth. In China, ethnonationalism, not the ruling Communist Party, unites and inspires 1.4 billion people to displace the Americans as the first power on earth.
Nationalism sustains Vladimir Putin. Nationalism and its unique identity as a Hindu nation unites and powers India.
Here, today, it is "America First" nationalism.
Indeed, now that George W. Bush's crusade for democracy has ended up like Peter the Hermit's Children's Crusade, what is the vision, what is the historic goal our elites offer to inspire and enlist our people?
When your country is invaded by ‘immigrant/refuge’ people who have no intention of assimilating to your culture but want to destroy it, yeah.....nationalism has a way of emerging loud and clear.
Buchanan with a backhand to the CPAC internationalists, and as always, it’s OK to be White!
Bookmarked.
it is OK 2B YT
the next best thing to being a color, without all those nasty little triggers.
His observation on Poland & Hungary ("In Hungary and Poland, ethnonationalism, the belief that nation-states are created and best suited to protect and defend a separate and unique people, with its separate and unique history and culture, is already ascendant.") fits in nicely with my latest essay:
Hungary & The Internationalist Betrayal of America.
There was a time, when most thinking people shared his wisdom.
Poles and Hungarians rebelled against EU Globalism just as they rebelled against Soviet Communism, which is why these two countries and their leaders are being vilified. You've probably noticed the new line of propaganda that portrays Poland as the foremost Nazi collaborator nation (even though the Polish government never collaborated with the Nazis). That's how the globalist elites treat you when you don't play ball.
Nationalism is like having a family living in their own home, where they can live as they wish.
Globalism is forcing several families to live under the same roof, where there will always be conflict about how to run the house, doesn’t make them bad people, it’s just not a natural state. They would be good neighbors if they all lived in their own house. That’s what nations are for.
Nationalism is a heady wine. That is according to my economics 1000 prof in 1973 something Gandhi said.
I’m thrilled ...God bless the Russians.
My first tour was in 1980. My second was in 1988. My second was in 1993.
During my first tour, the friendliness and support of the South Koreans helped me to believe that American protection of South Korea was worthwhile. During my second tour, some of that support and friendliness had disappeared, but I still believed in what we were doing over there. By the third tour, however, the attitude of most South Koreans made me feel like I was there against their will.
Over the years, it has reached the point where I am an extreme advocate of pulling US troops out of both Germany and South Korea. If the South Koreans have such fond thoughts of their "brothers and sisters" to the North, let them work it out without us there between them ... and it will be worked out in oceans of fire in an artillery-destroyed Seoul and rivers of blood from ungrateful and unappreciative South Korean victims.
See my letter to the Conservatives of Europe:
Well said!
There were plenty of them at CPAC, but the most shrill and self-righteously politically correct of the bunch was without question Mona Charen.
I never thought much of her. I can't recall one thing of note she has argued for or written.
Mona Charen is a lightweight, the kind of “conservative” that the liberal establishment likes to showcase on TV talk shows to show how they present “both sides” of every issue - in spite of the fact that people like Mona Charen, Jennifer Rubin, Bill Kristol, and Max Boot are on the same side of most issues as the liberals.
What a despicable collection of NeverTrumpers, all rendered to the political ash heap by the DJT victory.
bump
Russia was a heavy favorite.
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