The Auron MacIntyre Show - February 01, 2024


'Somalia First!' and a Failing US Empire ｜ 2⧸1⧸2024


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

142.60545

Word count

1,376

Sentence count

82

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

3

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Summary

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The Biden administration is trying to replace its own troops with immigrants, and it s doing so in order to fill the ranks of the military with people who share the same ideological biases as the rest of the country s leaders. But is this a good or bad thing?

Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Every gardener is fighting a constant battle against chaos.
00:00:34.780 Hard work must be done to construct planter beds, pull weeds,
00:00:38.580 and generally repel the relentless forces of nature
00:00:41.300 that seek to take back what the gardener has built.
00:00:44.600 If the garden is to persist,
00:00:46.440 its owners must transmit the importance of its maintenance
00:00:49.480 from one generation of owners to the next.
00:00:53.320 Without constant upkeep and renewal,
00:00:55.680 a beautiful garden that has lasted for centuries
00:00:58.380 can be recaptured by nature in just a few years.
00:01:02.580 Nations and empires inevitably meet the same fate as the untended garden.
00:01:06.760 Without a constant renewal of shared identity,
00:01:09.900 these political orders quickly decay into a chaotic struggle of factional interests.
00:01:14.600 The United States is demonstrating all the classic signs of late imperial fatigue.
00:01:20.980 If the country cannot find the courage to forge a unified vision once again,
00:01:26.040 it will be torn apart by the petty squabbles of a sick and dying civilization.
00:01:31.080 White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre on Monday attempted to express her condolences
00:01:38.520 to the families of three American soldiers who were killed last week in the Middle East.
00:01:44.320 I say attempted because the woman could barely form a sentence, 1.00
00:01:48.480 a skill that would generally be considered a prerequisite for the position she holds.
00:01:52.940 While Pierre demonstrates an almost comical level of ineptitude,
00:01:58.520 her buffoonery often has the positive effect of accidentally exposing what our ruling class really believes. 1.00
00:02:06.580 While making her statement,
00:02:08.680 Jean-Pierre said that the soldiers had died on behalf of the administration.
00:02:14.260 Recognizing her slip with some additional stuttering,
00:02:17.520 Jean-Pierre quickly added,
00:02:19.100 and the American people.
00:02:20.760 But the truth was clear.
00:02:21.800 Standing armies that are personally loyal to a particular ruler or regime
00:02:28.280 instead of the people or the nation are always a bad sign.
00:02:32.860 A military force that identifies with the nation
00:02:36.320 is unlikely to follow orders that target citizens or violate their shared values.
00:02:42.780 Soldiers who feel like outsiders and share only their loyalty to the current ruler
00:02:47.480 are far more likely to carry out orders against the regime's enemies.
00:02:52.960 The Biden administration knows this.
00:02:55.720 Its officials use the COVID-19 vaccine as a pretext to oust from the ranks of the military
00:03:01.840 as many conservatives and Trump supporters as possible.
00:03:05.700 The left have been enacting a slow revolution inside the armed forces since the 1990s,
00:03:13.480 but the Biden administration dramatically accelerated the process to ensure ideological purity amongst its ranks.
00:03:20.920 What happened next should hardly come as a surprise.
00:03:25.080 The military has encountered a serious recruiting deficit after purging many of its most capable fighters for political heresy.
00:03:33.820 Instead of removing its ideological bias, the administration seems determined to fill that gap by enlisting more immigrants.
00:03:41.580 Empires that replace their own troops with recruits from foreign nations have a nasty history of being torn apart from the inside. 1.00
00:03:51.060 The need to fill those ranks has become even more urgent as the Biden administration attempts to generate the pretext for a war with Iran.
00:03:59.720 How a third consecutive regime change project in the Middle East would benefit the American people is unclear,
00:04:05.900 but the politicians from both parties who profit from the military-industrial complex are certain that war is necessary.
00:04:13.860 Ultimately, the Biden administration believes that the American military exists only for the benefit of the ruling class,
00:04:21.140 and in less guarded or more incompetent moments, officials announce that fact.
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00:04:57.620 Footage surfaced last week of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar addressing a crowd in Somali
00:05:03.560 as she explained her blood ties compel her to prioritize Somalia first and Muslims second.
00:05:10.680 She went on to tell her supporters that her number one job in Congress is to protect Somalia's interests and territory.
00:05:19.260 Subsequent videos have now emerged of her saying basically the same thing,
00:05:24.140 regularly in Somali, not in English.
00:05:27.080 This was not a one-time event.
00:05:28.760 The naked prioritization of foreign interests was shocking to many,
00:05:34.700 but it's exactly what you would expect in the late stages of a failing empire.
00:05:39.660 As the late Samuel Huntington explained in The Clash of Civilizations,
00:05:44.660 diasporas often place large populations of immigrants with strong ties to their homelands into dominant nations.
00:05:52.020 The immigrants, in turn, exert major influence over the foreign policy priorities of their new country.
00:06:00.120 This is why so many paleoconservatives warn that mass immigration,
00:06:04.960 both legal and illegal, was a danger to American sovereignty and identity.
00:06:11.400 Nations are generally capable of assimilating small numbers of new arrivals.
00:06:16.840 Given enough time, those people can come to share the values and priorities of the native population.
00:06:24.840 But massive waves of immigration have been drowning in the United States for decades,
00:06:30.100 making assimilation practically impossible.
00:06:34.160 When large blocks of unassimilated foreigners immigrate into a representative system,
00:06:40.040 the results are almost always the same.
00:06:42.700 When the current round of violence between Palestinians and Israelis broke out in October,
00:06:49.940 crowds of protesters from both groups massed in the streets of many American cities
00:06:55.020 to scream at each other and, in some cases, engage in direct conflict.
00:07:00.580 Nations that don't maintain control of their borders 0.97
00:07:03.780 quickly find themselves embroiled in the ethnic squabbles of various imported groups.
00:07:09.740 Ilhan Omar's Somalia-first posturing might have been more brazen than many Americans are accustomed to,
00:07:19.000 but the problem is not unique to her.
00:07:22.260 American politicians have proven over and over that they're more interested in protecting the borders of
00:07:27.780 foreign countries like Israel or Ukraine
00:07:30.640 than they are in stopping the invasion surging across their own southern border.
00:07:35.760 U.S. taxpayers are still providing pensions for Ukrainian bureaucrats
00:07:42.360 and weapon systems for Israel, one of the wealthiest nations in the world,
00:07:47.000 while politicians attempt to cut social security
00:07:49.520 and refuse to build the border wall here at home.
00:07:53.580 A ruling elite that believes the military's chief loyalty
00:07:57.320 should be to the current presidential administration
00:08:00.100 and national political leaders who declare their primary loyalty
00:08:04.000 to foreign nations.
00:08:06.080 These are real late-stage imperial hours.
00:08:10.320 America has simply not tended its garden.
00:08:13.620 It has not renewed its shared identity and moral vision,
00:08:17.580 nor has it passed the importance of maintaining that tradition
00:08:21.460 to the next generation.
00:08:23.380 Freedom, as Ronald Reagan famously observed,
00:08:28.160 is never more than one generation away from extinction.
00:08:32.800 If the United States is to hand anything other than chaos to its posterity,
00:08:38.320 it must first rediscover the will to put America first.
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