'Somalia First!' and a Failing US Empire ｜ 2⧸1⧸2024
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Summary
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?
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Every gardener is fighting a constant battle against chaos.
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Hard work must be done to construct planter beds, pull weeds,
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and generally repel the relentless forces of nature
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that seek to take back what the gardener has built.
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its owners must transmit the importance of its maintenance
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a beautiful garden that has lasted for centuries
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can be recaptured by nature in just a few years.
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Nations and empires inevitably meet the same fate as the untended garden.
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these political orders quickly decay into a chaotic struggle of factional interests.
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The United States is demonstrating all the classic signs of late imperial fatigue.
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If the country cannot find the courage to forge a unified vision once again,
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it will be torn apart by the petty squabbles of a sick and dying civilization.
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White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre on Monday attempted to express her condolences
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to the families of three American soldiers who were killed last week in the Middle East.
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I say attempted because the woman could barely form a sentence,
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a skill that would generally be considered a prerequisite for the position she holds.
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While Pierre demonstrates an almost comical level of ineptitude,
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her buffoonery often has the positive effect of accidentally exposing what our ruling class really believes.
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Jean-Pierre said that the soldiers had died on behalf of the administration.
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Recognizing her slip with some additional stuttering,
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Standing armies that are personally loyal to a particular ruler or regime
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instead of the people or the nation are always a bad sign.
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A military force that identifies with the nation
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is unlikely to follow orders that target citizens or violate their shared values.
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Soldiers who feel like outsiders and share only their loyalty to the current ruler
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are far more likely to carry out orders against the regime's enemies.
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Its officials use the COVID-19 vaccine as a pretext to oust from the ranks of the military
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as many conservatives and Trump supporters as possible.
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The left have been enacting a slow revolution inside the armed forces since the 1990s,
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but the Biden administration dramatically accelerated the process to ensure ideological purity amongst its ranks.
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What happened next should hardly come as a surprise.
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The military has encountered a serious recruiting deficit after purging many of its most capable fighters for political heresy.
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Instead of removing its ideological bias, the administration seems determined to fill that gap by enlisting more immigrants.
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Empires that replace their own troops with recruits from foreign nations have a nasty history of being torn apart from the inside.
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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.
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How a third consecutive regime change project in the Middle East would benefit the American people is unclear,
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but the politicians from both parties who profit from the military-industrial complex are certain that war is necessary.
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Ultimately, the Biden administration believes that the American military exists only for the benefit of the ruling class,
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and in less guarded or more incompetent moments, officials announce that fact.
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Footage surfaced last week of U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar addressing a crowd in Somali
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as she explained her blood ties compel her to prioritize Somalia first and Muslims second.
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She went on to tell her supporters that her number one job in Congress is to protect Somalia's interests and territory.
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Subsequent videos have now emerged of her saying basically the same thing,
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The naked prioritization of foreign interests was shocking to many,
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but it's exactly what you would expect in the late stages of a failing empire.
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As the late Samuel Huntington explained in The Clash of Civilizations,
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diasporas often place large populations of immigrants with strong ties to their homelands into dominant nations.
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The immigrants, in turn, exert major influence over the foreign policy priorities of their new country.
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This is why so many paleoconservatives warn that mass immigration,
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both legal and illegal, was a danger to American sovereignty and identity.
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Nations are generally capable of assimilating small numbers of new arrivals.
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Given enough time, those people can come to share the values and priorities of the native population.
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But massive waves of immigration have been drowning in the United States for decades,
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When large blocks of unassimilated foreigners immigrate into a representative system,
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When the current round of violence between Palestinians and Israelis broke out in October,
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crowds of protesters from both groups massed in the streets of many American cities
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to scream at each other and, in some cases, engage in direct conflict.
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Nations that don't maintain control of their borders
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quickly find themselves embroiled in the ethnic squabbles of various imported groups.
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Ilhan Omar's Somalia-first posturing might have been more brazen than many Americans are accustomed to,
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American politicians have proven over and over that they're more interested in protecting the borders of
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than they are in stopping the invasion surging across their own southern border.
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U.S. taxpayers are still providing pensions for Ukrainian bureaucrats
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and weapon systems for Israel, one of the wealthiest nations in the world,
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while politicians attempt to cut social security
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and refuse to build the border wall here at home.
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A ruling elite that believes the military's chief loyalty
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should be to the current presidential administration
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and national political leaders who declare their primary loyalty
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It has not renewed its shared identity and moral vision,
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nor has it passed the importance of maintaining that tradition
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is never more than one generation away from extinction.
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If the United States is to hand anything other than chaos to its posterity,
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it must first rediscover the will to put America first.
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