Posted on 07/24/2025 6:23:30 AM PDT by Starman417
The First Punic War began in 264 BC, lasted 25 years, and was fought between the Romans and the Carthaginians, a civilization in what is today modern Tunisia. The Carthaginians were the most powerful and prosperous force in the Western Mediterranean and North Africa, while the Romans were a growing power on the Italian peninsula. After two decades, with both sides financially and demographically exhausted, Rome prevailed. Carthage ceded Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica, and paid substantial reparations.
The Second Punic War lasted from 218 to 201 BC. This is the war that saw Hannibal attack from the north, taking his war elephants across the Mediterranean, then down over the Alps, becoming the scourge of the Italian Peninsula for more than a decade. Across the Italian mainland, Hannibal would go from city to city, winning virtually every engagement, including Cannae, which almost ended Rome. Rome recovered, however, and pursued a cat-and-mouse strategy with the goal of tiring Hannibal’s army.
In one of history’s great mysteries, after a decade of winning almost every encounter and with virtual free rein over most of the Italian mainland, for some reason, Hannibal never attacked Rome to deliver the death blow that kept the Romans awake at night. Eventually, Publius Scipio, known to history as Scipio Africanus, would bring the war to Carthage itself, which would lead to Hannibal being recalled.
Unable to overcome the Roman cavalry advantage, Hannibal would be defeated, and Carthage would sue for peace. Again, Carthage would pay substantial reparations, concede wide swaths of land, and this time lose much of its autonomy.
The Third Punic War, begun in 149 BC, would be the shortest and the last. Using a Carthaginian response to an attack by the Numidian king and Roman ally Massinissa as a pretense, Rome declared war. Three years later, the city of Carthage lay in ruins as the Romans destroyed virtually every structure.
This would be final. Tired of having to fight the Carthaginians, Rome would obliterate them. They subsumed everything the Carthaginians had, declared it illegal to rebuild the city, and sold off its remaining population into slavery. As intended, Carthage would never again pose a problem for the Romans.
Fast forward two millennia, and you see echoes of one of the greatest conflicts in history. In 1914, the Germans launched Europe into World War I. For three years, the sides would largely battle over inches as soldiers looked at one another across the hundreds of miles of trenches dug on front lines that rarely moved. By 1918, the Germans were defeated and the allies—mainly France & the UK—imposed the draconian Treaty of Versailles, which included staggering reparations and strict military limitations.
Two decades later, Germany, once crippled by reparations and limitations on industry and its military, would launch a second world war. For the previous decade, it had slowly but consistently pushed the limits of what it was allowed to do under the Treaty of Versailles, and usually found little or no resistance. As such, Germany kept pushing until it was strong enough that the allies could do little to prevent its expansive designs. And thus began a true world war that would fully engulf half the planet, and it would take half a decade for victory to come.
Fast forward another eighty years, and the world once again finds itself in a crisis. A different crisis, to be sure, but one that threatens civilization every bit as much as the two world wars.
What crisis? Why the immigration crisis, of course. And why is it an existential threat to civilization? Because the West has been the primary driver of the advance of civilization around the world for the last 500 years.
The list of things Western civilization is responsible for that are central to the world today, while not endless, is very long. Flight, telephony, harnessing electricity, nuclear power, plastic, television, air conditioning, automobiles, the best of modern medicine, space travel, MRI machines, advanced agriculture, and much more, not the least of which was virtually ending slavery worldwide.
This Western civilization was built on Christianity, individual freedom, freedom of speech, religion, and the press, capitalism, liberal democracy, and relatively free markets. Other than that first foundation (Christianity), most of those elements developed into keystones over the last three centuries.
Today, all are at risk, and once again, the catalyst is Germany. In particular, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In 2015, as the leader of what was then the most economically powerful nation in Europe, she essentially dictated that the continent open its borders to “migrants” from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. While ostensibly humanitarian, this policy was suicidal. Europe had been failing to integrate immigrants for decades, and now Merkel had opened the door to the entire Third World.
The consequences have been extraordinary. Thirty million, mostly undocumented male, military-aged “migrants” from the third world have inundated Europe over the last decade, overwhelming services, straining budgets, and committing crimes.
Today, across the West, there is a growing ideology that is anathema to free speech, freedom of religion, free press, women’s rights, and more. And it’s violently so. At the current rate of demographic change, native Europeans will be a minority in Europe soon after the middle of the century, and Western civilization will not be far behind, if it survives that long.
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“From Marx to Merkel: Germany’s 200-Year War on the West - And Why It’s Time to Carthage Them Before They Finish the Job”
Between opening Europe to mass Muslim immigration and virtually planning to war against Russia (yet again), I don’t think Germany is able to self-govern. Some country has to bring some SANITY to that place...and I don’t care which country that ends up being.
BTTT
New International Version
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Ephesians 6:12
The author sees the problem, but gets his conclusion exactly backwards. Germany is an occupied country
Immigration is forced upon it - it must be tied down and subdued to an EU, globalist perspective, along with all other Western nations.
Germany in WW1 signed an armistice, they did not surrender. But they were treated like defeated supplicants at Versailles which created conditions ripe for hatred and the rise of Hitler.
No it didn't. This is simply wrong. The Russian intelligence service backed the Serbs who committed an act of war against the Hapsburg Empire with their state sponsored terrorism. Namely, the assassination of the heir apparent to the Hapsburg throne. The Hapsburgs then issued an ultimatum to Serbia which the Serbs rejected. Then despite not having a formal treaty, Russia mobilized for war against the Hapsburg Empire. Russia engaged in full mobilization even though the Germans had told them this would force Germany to go to war to defend itself. But the Germans started it???????? By the way, Germany was spending a lower percentage of its GDP on Defense than two powers allied against it - Russia and France - were spending on their militaries. But again, the Germans started it?????
Now everything said about the idiocy of allowing Muslims and Africans into Europe was completely true. But European countries had been doing this for some time already. Other countries could have refused - as Hungary showed everybody. Its their own fault that they did not.
Should have turned it into a massive farming country ruled by the European Union. Or?
Honestly....I wouldn’t worry about Germany anymore. They’re becoming demographically irrelevant. Thanks to their idiotic Gaia worship, they’re rapidly making themselves economically irrelevant as well.
Sadly, Germany is finished. So is western Europe IMO.
That went through my mind too. I think Princip, his Serbian friends and Slavic Russia had a lot to do with that. Could Germany with a more diplomatic, sane Kaiser had stopped it in its infancy, maybe. But Germany didn’t start it.
I hear you but I wouldn’t be too optimistic based on their economic self-destruction since the last time they were in that condition, they managed to get out of it, and with quite bang.
Regarding their RPP (Re-Population Program)...that will get very interesting since we see how Germany treats its imaginary enemies (Jews and Russians), so if Germany ever figures out that their REAL ENEMIES are already infesting their country, they might get a bit ‘upset’ about it, and deal with it the ‘German Way’.
It’s ISLAM! Say it.
“Today, across the West, there is a growing ideology that is anathema to free speech, freedom of religion, free press, women’s rights, and more. And it’s violently so. At the current rate of demographic change, native Europeans will be a minority in Europe soon after the middle of the century, and Western civilization will not be far behind, if it survives that long.”
Been going on longer than discussed in the article:
First Schleswig War (1848–1851): Prussia vs. Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein.
Second Schleswig War (1864): Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark.
Austro-Prussian War (1866): Prussia vs. Austria for dominance in Germany.
Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871): Prussia vs. France; led to German unification.
Feed my tagline into a Google Translator with thanks to Cato the Elder for the inspiration, not just in the construction of the original statement, but also for the way in which Cato the Elder used it in the course of the Third Punic War.
It fits perfectly today.
Re “… as Hungary showed everybody…”
And Poland as well.
Fast foward 100 years - where did Merkel’s migrant wave come from?
Libya, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. All products of US/Obama/Clinton destabilization.
It’s almost like there was some kind of globalist conspiracy to create the conditions of mass migration, and then channel that human wave into Europe. But that would a crazy conspiracy theory.....
Not an apologist for Germany. They are done. And so is the rest of Europe. All but maybe Poland and Hungary gladly participated.
The balance of the Euro Wars since 1500 NOT started by a German state include:
Italian Wars (1494–1559) – France (Charles VIII invaded Italy 1494).
Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604) – England (Elizabeth I sanctioned raids & aid to Dutch rebels).
Eighty Years’ War (1568–1648) – Spain (Philip II’s repression sparked the Dutch revolt; Spanish initiative).
Anglo‑Dutch Wars (1652, 1665, 1672, 1780) – England or Netherlands initiated;
• 1652: England (Navigation Acts enforcement).
• 1665: England (trade rivalry).
• 1672: England (allied with France against Dutch).
Franco‑Spanish War (1635–1659) – France declared war on Spain.
Franco‑Dutch War (1672–1678) – France invaded the Dutch Republic.
Great Northern War (1700–1721) – Russia, Denmark, Poland attacked Sweden.
War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718–1720) – Spain invaded Sicily.
War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) – France backed claims & moved troops before formalities.
Russo‑Turkish Wars (various) – initiated by Russia or Ottomans
French Revolutionary Wars (1792–1802) – France declared war on Austria/Prussia first.
Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) – France (Napoleon) aggressively expanded.
Crimean War (1853–1856) – Russia occupied Ottoman lands, prompting Britain/France reaction.
Franco‑Austrian War (1859) – France & Piedmont provoked Austria into war.
Russo‑Turkish War (1877–1878) – Russia initiated.
Russo‑Japanese War (1904–1905) – not European.
Balkan Wars (1912–1913) – Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro attacked the Ottoman Empire.
Winter War (1939–1940) – Soviet Union attacked Finland.
But sure, Europe would be war free if not for those horrible Germans.
Every recent bad idea in government has started in Germany. Marxism, nazism, Prussian bureaucracy, and now the migrant flood and replacement migration.
They should never be involved in self governing.
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