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As America Soul Searches, The Rest Of The West Is Falling Apart

August 5, 2025

By Brandon Smith

In terms of geopolitics one could argue that allies don’t have to like each other, they just have to provide a mutual benefit that serves the greater purposes of peace. One could also argue that through cultural exchange the good habits of one country could easily influence the bad habits of another, but that kind of influence can also happen in reverse.

Though we might think of American culture as the content driver of the planet, the reality is that our ideals are an exceedingly rare dynamic found in no other society. We provide sanctuary to a fragile ember of free thought in an otherwise gloomy world of globalist oppression. It is something that must be protected at all costs.

Over the years I’ve heard many arguments from ignorant liberals about the grand progressive accomplishments of the European experiment and its centralized system. I’ve been told many times about how much safer Canada and Australia are. How the UK has near zero gun crime and how socialism works so well in Norway and Sweden.

Leftists in the US have long embraced this messaging as gospel and for generations they have told us that we MUST join the rest of western civilization by sacrificing certain liberties for the sake of future generations. We must become more like our allies in “more civilized” and liberal nations, or be left behind and labeled an “embarrassment”.

In reality, progressive leaders have abandoned western civilization, forsaking it in exchange for the elitist “Great Reset”. The political landscape in the UK, Canada and Australia has turned decidedly sour. They are speed running into technocracy and communism and abandoning any semblance of “democratic” governance. The mask is coming off to reveal Orwell’s “Big Brother”.

Europe Is Now A Third World Cesspool

Western civilization has been a net positive for humanity over the centuries and the only people that deny this are those that don’t know history and those that refuse to look at what is happening in the EU today with any honesty.

When you truly study the history of third-world societies you will find that life in these environments is brutal, devoid of compassion and bereft of freedom. The majority of their conflicts are solved with violence, often to the point of barbarism.

No woke liberal today stands a chance living within these societies. They would be laughed at over their calls for “equity” and slaughtered for their activism. Yet, leftists aggressively lobby for open borders so the third-world can invade.

It’s important to understand that Multiculturalism is a weaponized ideology. It’s not about coexistence, or labor markets, or population decline; it’s about eliminating western culture. The goal of globalists is to destabilize the connective tissue of the west, to saturate and dilute our shared cultural principles and make us as weak as possible.

They hope to use migrants as enforcers. It’s a classic strategy implemented by many tyrannical regimes that prefer to recruit foreign mercenaries as leverage to control an otherwise rebellious peasantry. Third world migrants are creating an atmosphere of crime and decay that globalists think will terrorize native Europeans into submission and apathy.

If you’re afraid to walk the streets of your own country, then your country no longer belongs to you.

The Muslim/Leftist Alliance

It’s no coincidence that the EU is importing migrants primarily from Islamic societies: They have no intention of integrating and they openly brag about how they’re coming to Europe to plunder and conquer. As these groups enter the west they bring with them a philosophy of exploitation – Their religious rules only apply to believers; non-believers are fair game and can be freely targeted.

One might wonder how an alliance between the leftists and the Muslims is even possible. They seem to be diametrically opposed to each other on almost everything. But consider for a moment what they share: A parallel hatred of western civilization and a desire to destroy it. Muslims see atheist progressives as disgusting, but they also see them as useful for opening the gates to predominantly Christian nations. Leftists, being generally weak and unable to project physical power, see Muslims as much needed hired muscle.

This relationship is made obvious in Britain where Muslim gangs are able to roam the streets brandishing knives and machetes with impunity while British patriots are consistently targeted by the government for censorship and intimidation. It’s no secret that the champagne socialist leaders of the UK want to eliminate the patriot threat and they see Muslim migrants as an effective tool. If patriots fight back, they are simply labeled as “racists” and thrown in prison. The government and the migrants operate as a team.

There is a growing counter-movement among British conservatives (real conservatives, not party conservatives) to turn the tide, but I have my doubts. Marches provide visibility, but not necessarily change. It might take a civil war to enact the reforms required to save the UK.

Canada Shakes Hands With Beelzebub

My relationship to centralized religious institutions is complicated but I am thoroughly convinced that key elements of Christianity are ideals that best represent the western world – Our values of hard work, meritocracy, independence, self improvement, freedom, charity, and moral compass are rooted in the Christian tradition.

Western civilization cannot exist without the fundamentals of Christian doctrine. Remove those fundamentals, and the west will collapse. Moderate liberals cannot keep the west going, their vision is superficial and devoid of soul.

One thing that pushes me ever closer to Christianity is the fact that leftists and globalists are so keenly preoccupied with crushing it. I used to think that the globalist agenda was mostly concerned with whittling down personal freedom, but after 20 years of observing their schemes and propaganda it’s clear to me that freedom is a secondary issue. Instead, the globalists are focused intensely on creating a world in which Christians cannot exist while playing hands-off with every other religion and ideology.

It suggests that Christianity is a specific threat to them. Case in point: In Montreal last week an American Christian singer by the name of Sean Feucht was set to hold a small concert, but had his permit for the event revoked by city officials. They stated that they were preventing the show because the content “runs counter to the values of inclusion, solidarity, and respect that are championed in Montreal.”

This was just one of six Christian shows that Canadian politicians tried to cancel. They accused Fuecht of promoting “hate”, and the Canadian government is taking actions to remove religious exemptions from existing hate speech laws. This was the goal of hate legislation all along. No official in Canada is trying to shut down Muslim events; they are singling out Christians with censorship.

Feucht decided to hold the concert in a local church instead, which triggered a bizarre series of incidents. Local police tried to disrupt the concert and demanded Feutch produce a permit which they knew he didn’t have. Antifa and LGBT activists showed up to harass concert goers and one of them threw smoke bombs into the church. They then threatened the singer with fines and arrest. The media attacked him for not having a permit to which he stated: “You don’t need a permit to sing in a church.”

The church has since been fined $2500 for hosting the show.

Keep in mind that the Canadian government has been flooding the country with Muslim migrants over the past ten years and is allowing them extreme latitude to run their own communities. There has been no government effort to silence the anti-LGBT rhetoric of Islamic speakers.

Canada has been quickly sinking into authoritarianism with draconian censorship laws and woke indoctrination. The Carney government is currently implementing a mass gun ban with over 300 models of firearms abruptly prohibited. Conservative Canadians in provinces like Alberta believe that the Carney government is trying to disarm them to prevent secession, a serious possibility under the current conditions. Our conservative brothers to the north have a difficult path ahead of them.

The legal changes in Canada will leave the US as the only nation left in the west with widespread civilian gun ownership, not to mention the only nation left with legitimate free speech rights.

America Soul Searches At The Edge Of The “Great Reset”

Incrementally, the majority of the western world has been turned into a pit of dystopian despair. Australia, for now, is the only region not burying their population in hostile migrants but it’s enforcing all of the same speech and thought control laws. The US is the only country trying to reverse course, but our soul searching is, frankly, too slow.

The defeat of woke doctrine in the US is certainly a relief. Clearly most Americans are done with deconstructionism and liberal mental illness. Most people hate leftists and want nothing to do with them. However, there is a deep divide among populists, from conservatives to libertarians to moderates. Their isn’t a strong bond except for our opposition to wokeness, and this is a problem.

Loving freedom is not enough. Having a shared enemy is not enough. There needs to be more for a society to survive and thrive. There needs to be a greater purpose.

In the meantime, we still have millions of illegal migrants to deal with as well as a small army of unhinged woke militants that are roaming the streets when they should be locked up in padded rooms. The will to take necessary action is limited by a refusal among many people to accept that we are alone, and we are at war.

There are millions of patriots in the EU, the UK, Australia and Canada that want to join the fight. We’ll have to wait and see if their civil disobedience bears fruit. I believe that they are waiting for us to make a move. They’re hoping we spark a greater rebellion against globalism. This requires that we clean our own house first and rediscover the unifying ideals that make the west something worth fighting for.

 

 

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  • Roundball Shaman August 5, 2025 at 1:55 pm

    “… allies don’t have to like each other, they just have to provide a mutual benefit that serves the greater purposes…”.
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    Isn’t this also the definition of Marriage? (Just kidding). Well, not always kidding. Seems many marriages survive for just this one reason. When the love flame begins to flicker…
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    “The mask is coming off to reveal Orwell’s ‘Big Brother’”.
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    This was always the destination as designed by the Dark State’s multi-front attack on America and the human family in general.
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    “When you truly study the history of third-world societies you will find that life in these environments is brutal, devoid of compassion and bereft of freedom.”
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    Sounds like Chicago. Or Los Angeles. Or San Francisco. Or Portland. Or Seattle. Or Atlanta. Or…
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    “… I am thoroughly convinced that key elements of Christianity are ideals that best represent the western world…”.
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    This is true. But organized religion is just as political and bureaucratic and ego-driven and drifting away from its true core values as anything else in America and the World. You have to wade through all that rot to get to the good stuff.
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    “Canada has been quickly sinking into authoritarianism with draconian censorship laws and woke indoctrination.”
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    I hope the NHL does not degrade into any further Wokeness than it already has. We don’t another great sport ruined into rubbish.
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    “They’re hoping we spark a greater rebellion against globalism. This requires that we clean our own house first and rediscover the unifying ideals that make the west something worth fighting for.”
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    This gets tougher every day as the Little Magic Box of Dancing Pixels gets additional 24-hour periods to rot out the mind, body, and soul of the American youth… and many of the non-youth as well.
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    For the Dark Side – They also have a unifying ideal: The Death of America. Their destination for us all.

  • Rodster August 5, 2025 at 8:34 pm

    One good thing Trump has done is to temporarily put an end to mass immigration. I say that because if the unhinged Lefties take back control of the government, they will unleash immigration and bring in the worse criminals from turd world countries.

    “White Women and Children in Scandinavia and Britain are no longer protected by law against rape: Sweden: Two Afghan immigrants who brutally raped a minor at knifepoint are released by Swedish justice and will not be deported.”

    https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/07/22/white-women-and-children-in-scandinavia-and-britain-are-no-longer-protected-by-law-against-rape/

    https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/07/22/white-women-and-children-in-scandinavia-and-britain-are-no-longer-protected-by-law-against-rape/

  • Some Dumb Guy August 5, 2025 at 9:27 pm

    “Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away.”

    -V from V for Vendetta

  • DWEEZIL THE WEASEL August 6, 2025 at 5:33 pm

    “…and they were marrying and giving away in marriage up until the time Noah was loading (sic) the Ark.” – H/T to The Good Book. Normies, sheeple, cucks, and Mall Zombies are still playing with their electronic pacifiers and other forms of Soma. They will realize too late (just like that pathetic, clueless woman in Cincinatti) the walls are tumbling down.
    However, those of us in the hinterlands who have: “Seen the elephant” and are prepped and vigilant, will not go gentle into the good night. We possess what those pathetic, emasculated, degenerate Europeans do not have: firearms with the training and will to use them. The Blue Hives are the canaries in the coal mines and the canaries are really starting to keel over. When the music stops and our debt bucks become campfire tinder, things will get real very fast. Until then, we watch, listen, and wait.

  • Henry Jones Jr August 7, 2025 at 6:42 am

    Brandon ~ While I agree with your thesis here, “Christianity” especially Protestant Fundamentalism is not the answer. Theocrats are just as tyrannical and evil as political Leftists. All three of the West’s major religions originated in the Middle-East which is consistently the most hateful, violent place on Earth. Religion is poison. The real solution here is Individual Liberty via Natural Rights.

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      Brandon Smith August 7, 2025 at 11:25 am

      Disagree. The less Christian the west becomes the deeper into degeneracy and instability we fall. It’s not a coincidence. Christianity was the predominant religion in the Middle East for around 450 years and was peaceful. It wasn’t until the Muslims formed and invaded around 630AD that the Levant became a hell hole. In other words, it was the Muslims that ruined the Middle East. Only under Christianity did all those ideas of natural rights begin to flourish. Freedom is not enough to make a coherent society.

    • Tony August 7, 2025 at 10:26 pm

      Just as there are Muslims and then there are Muslims (Islamists). I’m afraid far too many people call themselves Christian but don’t actually live by the teachings of Christ—all of them. “Theocrats” are not humble or meek. They are not Christ-like. Christianity is not the organized church. Its people behaving like Christians, which includes those “values of hard work, meritocracy, independence, self improvement, freedom, charity, and moral compass” (a wise man once wrote). This country will not survive without enough of those kind of Christians.

    • Ordinary Joe August 8, 2025 at 7:08 am

      Christianity, in its current form is devoid of self preservation. It is the essence of why “Christians” will lose.

      Christians love everyone and hate no one. “Love Thy Neighbor”
      Christians are not discerning “Judge not lest ye be judged”
      Christians cannot protect themselves “Thou shall not kill”
      Christians are tolerant, they are nice people who would not harm a fly. We hate the sin and not the sinner. And on and on.

      These are the teachings we are inundated with. There are hints of self protection in Romans, but not much else. The question is why? Why out of the three major religions of the middle east are Christians taught to be victims? WWJD was the refrain for some time.

      So would Jesus fight to preserve himself or offer himself to be killed? We all know that answer. Christians are asked to do the same. There is nothing in the new testament that says you must fight to protect the people. Plenty in the old testament though. So why the change?

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        Brandon Smith August 8, 2025 at 9:52 am

        It’s probably the Rapture fraud and the demonization of the Crusades that tricked 20th century Christians into becoming pacifists. I think today’s Christians are about to realize that the Crusaders and early Christians had it right (self defense is Biblical). Things are going to change quickly now that the veil is being lifted.

        • MM60 August 8, 2025 at 12:24 pm

          Hi Brandon, I always appreciate your articles and I frequently forward them to my friends. Thanks for the great content! If you haven’t read it before, you should check out Foxe’s Book of Martyrs:
          https://archive.org/details/foxesbookofmartyrs_201708/mode/2up
          I think you’d be especially interested in Chapter 6: A Narrative of the Piedmontese War beginning on page 232, but you may want to read everything else up to that point for context. Later!

          • Jon August 10, 2025 at 5:48 pm

            That’s an excellent read, MM60. I’m in process of reading the entire book. 400-500 years ago, the Romish church and its hirelings performed the most heinous acts to those who wouldn’t comply with the dictates. Something feels very ominous nowadays, regarding a very similar scenario portending in the USA and globally.

            I appreciate Brandon’s position, re: “self defense is Biblical.”
            As a Jesus-follower, I find this to be correct. Any evangelical who believes that a Christian should stand down and permit government and other entities to command their lives in order to enforce compliance….they need to thoroughly read thru the Bible and study Joshua and King David and their obedience in fighting against the darkness. Horrific stories. But God told them to, and God led the way. He will do the same for us.

      • AL August 9, 2025 at 9:54 pm

        This is a typical misguided view of Christianity. Let’s start with Christ. He did not come to judge the world but to save it. He did not come to fight but to teach and to die for our sins. This means the earthy death but not spiritually – because He rose three days later.

        The Old Testament was the original law but the people did not keep it. Even after God sent Prophet after Prophet instructing and so on, the people still rejected that teaching. Christ is the New Covenant. Much of the Old Testament tradition was void once Christ arrived. Christ was convicted by a jury of His peers and sentenced to death because what He taught was not accepted by those who were of this world. To live for Christ means to be dead to the world but alive for the next life.

        There were plenty of wars fought and won in the name of Christianity but that was not because of worldly or personal interests. It was to uphold the truth and purity of the Christian faith. I can’t speak for the Catholics (I’m Russian Orthodox) and can say that the God anointed Czar’s of years past were not to be compared to a president as we know it. You can read about St. Alexander Nevsky who was victorious in battle against the Swedes and Teutonic Knights but knew he couldn’t win a battle with the Khan so he chose diplomacy.

        Christ had the power to do anything but His life was predetermined long before He was born. It was necessary for those events to take place. I guess what I’m saying is the Christian life in this world is not about winning over those who run the world.

    • Simon August 8, 2025 at 8:10 pm

      Your wrong, sorry

      • Ordinary Joe August 12, 2025 at 7:45 am

        Based on what? Wishful thinking?

  • Bill Jones August 8, 2025 at 7:49 am

    “The rest of the world falls apart”
    What fantasy world is this?
    China and India are both doing fine, The Russian Orthodox church is burgeoning in Putin’s Russia.

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      Brandon Smith August 8, 2025 at 9:46 am

      I said the rest of the WEST, not the rest of the “world”. Please learn how to read. Also, China’s economy is collapsing right now. I suggest you study my articles on the issue (after you learn how to read) and educate yourself.

  • Banzaibob August 9, 2025 at 6:31 pm

    Not one for Prophecy but if the Anti-Christ is to come and rule the world, this is how it would do it.

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      Brandon Smith August 9, 2025 at 7:02 pm

      If there is an Anti-Christ, AI sure fits the bill.

  • Marcy Casterline August 10, 2025 at 11:40 am

    Here, here!!! Well said! Bravo!!!!!! I’d follow you on X, except they kept harassing me for liking anti-climate change posts, so I quit.

  • TelStar August 10, 2025 at 2:17 pm

    You must seek the character of GOD to understand. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit… triune GOD, all in perfect agreement. You can not separate the old and new testaments concerning GOD’s character and Word. The only conflict is in our understanding. The Old Testament is the New Testament concealed. The New Testament is the Old Testament revealed.

    Jesus was in perfect agreement when Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. GOD has waged many wars against His enemies using His elect.
    Why did He decree His followers not mix with “foreigners”?

    I think Jesus’ message in the New Testament was primarily directed to the condition of one’s heart while engaged in the conflicts of life. GOD allows for self defense. We are at war… defend yourself spiritually first, and then physically. And, oh yes… Jesus is GOD.

    We have entered the last days. Judgement on the earth and people. How else can you explain the quickening of the earthquakes, volcanos, social distress, wars, weather, slowing of the AMOC, pole drift, etc., some of which is detailed in Matthew 24? A pole shift… extinction level event. GOD’s judgement is upon us. Once it has started it can not be stopped by man. Read Isaiah 13: 13. Men’s hearts will fail them for what is coming upon the earth. Judgement… we earned it.

    • Ordinary Joe August 12, 2025 at 7:56 am

      I am not concerned with the character of GOD. I am concerned about the character of the people. There is a difference between current, modern teaching and reality. Christians want to be peaceniks. Brandon says pacifists, but I don’t think many fit into that mold. IMHO modern day Christianity is a racket. Churches make money, and spend it on our further destruction. They do not teach others to fish, but feed them, contrary to teachings. Christianity is more aligned with leftist ideals (socialism, communism, etc.) than with conservative benchmarks (self reliance, charity). The west is being destroyed from within and the churches are a major factor. They are modern Christian which is the same as a socialist.

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        Brandon Smith August 12, 2025 at 9:47 am

        You are sort of correct. The centralized church institutions are corrupt, but you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Christianity has nothing to do with socialism – Christianity promotes voluntary charity; socialism promotes forced charity through taxation and government bureaucracy. Most Christians today do NOT believe in socialism, regardless of what organizations like the Vatican might say.

      • TelStar August 12, 2025 at 5:01 pm

        In Matthew 7: 22 who was Jesus talking to? He is not talking to non-believers, He is talking to church folks masquerading as Christians. He said to depart from Him, He never knew them. Those people do not know His character or have a relationship with Him. Sadly, today a lot of so-called Christians will fit that category.

        I am a Christ follower. I strive for peace. I was a peace officer for 30 years. So… what do you think will happen when someone is harming those I care about? Do you really think I will walk away? Don’t make the mistake of stereotyping all Christians. Some will strive for peace but go to war when warranted.

        • Ordinary Joe August 14, 2025 at 6:00 pm

          TelStar. I am not saying ALL Christians will sit it out. I have 40 years military and law enforcement. There are many of us Sheepdogs around to help the Shepard with the flock.

          • TelStar August 15, 2025 at 3:58 am

            Ordinary Joe. I thank you for your service in defending those who can not defend themselves.

            A final thought for Christians who might not know. In the Bible, Thou shall not kill is a mis-translation of the original language. The proper translation is Thou shall not murder. Justified self defense is not murder.

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