This country is doomed, and the Dems are seeing to it that there is no pulling back.
Poor, stupid, indoctrinated Americans have no idea what’s coming.
No S * it!
I thought it was excessive chariot horse flatulence...
Some of them may have even orated.
His point is undeniable.
When the city finally fell to a Germanic horde, Gibbon wrote that the gate was opened by someone who had more sympathy with the forces outside, than with the people inside.
Whether that detail is accurate, the Western Empire was being overrun by migrant forces for many decades.
There is no question the Empire fell to this gradual takeover, and not to its foreign enemies to the East and South.
The fall of the Roman Empire closely aligns with the rise of the Roman Catholic Church.
Those turds along with Constantine wanted one universal faith... Happy now? Morons.
Well, yes and no. Rome fell to conquering barbarian armies that they no longer had the ability to resist. Rome still had a lot of citizens, but no one was interested in fighting.
While there are no conquering armies (yet), we are being slowly boiled like a frog. And, yes, lots of people inside the gates are sympathetic to those outside. They think letting them all in, with zero vetting, will make their lives better. It won’t.
The fact that we are offering freebees also serves as a magnet. Even Rome wasn’t dumb enough to do that.
One difference is the Romans didn;t invite the invaders. The west is inviting mass immigration.
The intention is to make the whole world, third world. The leaders make out regardless of the quality of life for the serfs.
Uncontrolled “immigration” isn’t “immigration”. It’s INVASION.
I understand what Johnson was trying to say and he is correct about his situation in Britain.
Rome “fell” for a number of reasons and the situations were not entirely analogous.
After a series of disastrous wars that lead to the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the princepate and empire, Augustus exempted Italians from mandatory service in the legions. Over time, this led to loss of any martial spirit.
You can’t defend your borders without a military so from that point on, troops were mainly recruited from the provinces. A series of Civil Wars in the Second Century, depleted the officer class and ranks of the military so they began recruiting barbarians from across the border as individuals and in groups. Eventually the military establishment was no longer Roman in any real sense.
Here is where the difference between the Roman situation and Britain exists.The barbarians filled a vacuum in the system even though they ultimately filled it to the detriment of the state. The Barbarians for the most part, admired Roman Civilization and wanted to be a part of it, not destroy it. Although Roman and Barbarian society and culture were different, they still had SOME elements of similarity. They were essentially both Indo-European.
In the case of Britain, “immugration” serves no real use.
The people coming in have, for the most part, no real cultural connection to Britain and no desire to absorb British culture or any admiration for it. They believe their culture is superior and are determined to impose it. They only come, again, for the most part, to take advantage of social programs absent in their own countries.
He should also mention toxic masculinity. The barbarians had more of it than the Romans by that period. (Of course the Romans had plenty of toxic masculinity earlier.)
...which was the result of the decadence of Roman civilisation,The warning is there. The West will head it or will experience the fall of Western Civilisation....a decadence which led inexorably to the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.
That immigration followed the expansion of the empire and in that expansion taking into its military ranks men from the European lands it - the Roman Legions - occupied.
It is to me very likely that minus the expansion of the Roman Empire north of Italy, Iberia, Greece and Anatolia, the conditions for the later mass immigration into the empire might not have occurred. However, instead of the empire falling from within by mass immigration, it might have fallen later due to formal war with a Germanic based empire spread out all along the north of it.
The Roman Empire fell because it was no longer a “Roman” empire but had become a multinational empire ruled over from Rome, the center, and then over time the center could not hold.
The idiots don’t recognize the damage their policies do until it’s too late for awakened voters to clean it up.
In 535 AD The Krakatoa volcano erupted so violently that it blotted out the sun for a few years. It was responsible for the term “dark ages”. The Holy Roman Empire existed around a series of communal grain coops. After Krakatoa erupted grain crops failed, and the remaining coop grain soured. Large portions of the indigenous population died of starvation and plague. Middle eastern and steppe tribes lived on cattle, sheep and goats, ruminants which can survive on un-flowered crops. They moved in to take over territory vacated by the Holy Roman empire.
A bit of a distinction between invading armies and wetbacks
End result is a convulsion of the existing order
Rome simply lost its territories in Gaul and it’s firewall at the Rhine collapsed and hence the Germanic tribes just keep filtering further south and west
By the time Rome fell it was almost just a city state rather than an empire
Constantinople on the other hand lasted a long time
I doubt BoJo has ever read a book in his life.
Barbarian invasions, Boris, barbarian invasions.
And yes, that is what is destroying civilization today.
Paging Captain Obvious.
Of course a society and its culture are going to be aligned with the majority of the race of its population.