The Roman Empire was not all peaches and cream, but it did provide a somewhat stable, centrally administered political entity for centuries. Then came barbarian invasions and people from Asia and Northern Europe moved into the lands of the Roman Empire and changed everything. Rome fell in the West and Europe entered a period of political instability with no stable administration in most areas.
But eventually, starting in about 800 AD, Europe began to form cohesive political units. Over a number of centuries, one by one we can see countries form: France, England, Spain, Poland, etc. Italy and Germany remained fragmented but they formed cohesive countries in the 19th century. Europe had a lot of wars and a lot of ups and downs, but Europe — and the countries of Europe — had an identity. They meant something.
I think that’s all falling apart now. We are in a new age of migrations, and I don’t think national identities will survive. As I see it, the only way to really deviate from the current trajectory would involve killing many millions of people. And we won’t do that. So western civilization is going to die.
Which is what was predicted in late years of the first millennium resulting in what are usually described as the Crusades that resulted in the formation of the countries and coalitions you’re talking about.
Western culture has faced these kinds of existential crises before. I suspect it will weather this one. But for sure it is an existential crisis.
Unfortunately, a growing number of Americans believe they need to tell others how to live and they are gathering political power.
They keep pushing us to accept unacceptable things like transgenderism, income redistribution, and illegal immigration.
Sooner or later, we're going to have to push back. The 2024 presidential election was such a moment. But the radicals keep fighting, and I believe the Trump administration found there are quite a few problems to deal with, and it's hard to focus just on one.
We're in a tough fight, for sure. But, we have more strength than we know.
——We are in a new age of migrations,——
Both Rome and Europe should be considered in purely biological, Darwinian, terms, rather than just purely political
That is, Survival Of The Fittest.
As a population weakens, the habitat is gradually invaded by what were historically weaker verities. As time progresses, what happens is that the genetically stronger variety will occupy the habitat.
In Rome, the northerners proved to be the most viable Homo sapiens variety, and over a long time occupied what had been Rome.
In the Europe now weakened by the wars of the last century, there are at least two verities of the Homo sapiens species seeking to occupy the habitat. One is Black African and the other is Islamic north African.
Pure unadulterated biology is at work for ever altering the human habitat