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Europe’s Civilizational War Will Be Bloody
American Thinker ^ | 18 Feb, 2026 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 02/18/2026 5:16:42 AM PST by MtnClimber

When all the ‘release valves’ for a civil society have been welded shut, society stops being ‘civil.’

It seems as if every month a new story comes out of Britain warning about the likelihood of future civil war. Retired colonel Richard Kemp recently gave a television interview during which he warned that the “Islamification” of the United Kingdom would lead to “inevitable conflict.” Several British academics specializing in the preconditions for civil conflict, including professors David Betz and Michael Rainsborough, have argued the same point.

Kemp’s point of view carries the added weight of someone who has witnessed insurgent fighting firsthand. A former commander who carried out counter-insurgency operations in Northern Ireland, led British forces in Afghanistan, and held intelligence roles in Westminster, Kemp says Islamic immigrants’ refusal to integrate into British society means that things in the U.K. are “getting bad” and about to “get worse.” Among other provocative comments that will no doubt ruffle the feathers of Britain’s “ruling class,” Kemp notes, “There were more British Muslims with the Taliban than in the British Army.”

The combat veteran argues that Britain’s political class has failed citizens by putting them in harm’s way and is simultaneously incapable of mitigating its failures due to suffocating concerns for what can be said out loud. “No government,” Kemp argues, “has the guts to stop…the Islamification of the U.K.” Consequently, ordinary Brits now need to prepare for the likelihood of “civil war in Europe.” Describing the looming conflict in the U.K. as a far more serious and deadly situation than what gripped Northern Ireland for decades, Kemp predicts that the coming civil war will involve “indigenous British and some of the immigrant population and the British government all on three different sides fighting against each other.”

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1 posted on 02/18/2026 5:16:42 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

For the indigenous British population, some of the immigrant population (the muslims), and the British government, there is a glaring difference. The British government have arms and the military, The muslims have likely smuggled arms into Britain and hidden them in mosques and elsewhere, but the indigenous British citizens have almost no useful armament. It would likely be a lopsided 3-way war until the muslims won.


2 posted on 02/18/2026 5:16:53 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Not to mention that Starmer would turn a blind eye and let the Muslims shoot everybody.


3 posted on 02/18/2026 5:23:40 AM PST by Jonty30 (I always ask AI stupid questions to avoid the smart lists for elimination. I want to surprise it.)
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To: MtnClimber

I love Shurk’s writing.

That first sentence hits the nail on the head. Everything else is just exposition.


4 posted on 02/18/2026 5:27:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Suspending my monthly donations until it becomes clear FR is run by and for conservatives.)
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To: Jonty30

Likely Starmer would also use the government to suppress indigenous Brits who dared defend themselves in that scenario.


5 posted on 02/18/2026 5:33:34 AM PST by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

This is all well and good and accurate.

But we need a Call To Action, à la Thomas Paine!


6 posted on 02/18/2026 5:36:15 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Suspending my monthly donations until it becomes clear FR is run by and for conservatives.)
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To: MtnClimber

The UK is dead.


7 posted on 02/18/2026 5:37:31 AM PST by wny
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To: MtnClimber

It appears to me that muslims are clever, motivated and violent. Most of the British people are indoctrinated and submissive. The muslims won’t engage in outright war until they’ve gained the advantage.

My guess is that Britian is doomed.


8 posted on 02/18/2026 5:37:59 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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To: MtnClimber

Very good article by J.B. Shurk. Thanks for posting.


9 posted on 02/18/2026 5:40:51 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

I suspect it’s first going to set off between Shia and Sunni, just like they do in their home countries.


10 posted on 02/18/2026 5:41:11 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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“The big problem that British people have is they don’t have political choice. We don’t really live in a democracy….Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies."

Gee, that sounds familiar.

11 posted on 02/18/2026 5:41:49 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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Come now.

Trump v. Biden?


12 posted on 02/18/2026 5:53:20 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Suspending my monthly donations until it becomes clear FR is run by and for conservatives.)
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To: MtnClimber

“Will Be Bloody”?
Will be?

Getting knifed in the streets.
Girls getting gang raped every day.
British Treasury handing them buckets of cash.
Industry off-shored.
But ya can’t say anything without being arrested.

As the article notes, there aren’t enough men with arms in England to win any fight.

It’s already over.


13 posted on 02/18/2026 6:00:23 AM PST by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: MtnClimber

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14 posted on 02/18/2026 6:17:28 AM PST by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber

They got no guns, how much “war” can they do?


15 posted on 02/18/2026 6:35:51 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

The Battle of Tours (732) and the Great Siege of Malta (1565) come to mind.


16 posted on 02/18/2026 7:17:58 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: MtnClimber

How many British immigrants would go to war for their island under the Union Jack?


17 posted on 02/18/2026 7:21:37 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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There will be no fighting. It'll be a "soft takeover" by the Muslims.

Sadiq Khan is already the Mayor of London, their capital and largest city in the UK. So they are halfway there already. Eventually, he'll become the PM.

Tommy Robinson will be exiled to USA (assuming Vance or Rubio will be the next POTUS).

18 posted on 02/18/2026 7:22:13 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: brownsfan
Most of the British people are indoctrinated and submissive.

And they'll convert to Islam.

Sad to say but they never recovered from both World Wars.

19 posted on 02/18/2026 7:23:49 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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“Sad to say but they never recovered from both World Wars.”

That is tragic, because without the Brits in WWII, we’d all be speaking German now.


20 posted on 02/18/2026 7:33:06 AM PST by brownsfan (We are already on the slippery slope.)
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