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I want to welcome everyone back to the Pekingyones show.

John Fieldhouse is back. That's the gun, John.

Good well, sir.

Cool. All right. We're going to read this this article here by Martin Van

Crevel called War and Migration. It appears in I think it's volume 10 of

there will be war, which was put together by Jerry Pornow.

Yes, sir.

I was going to ask you to give us an introduction into Van Crevel,

then Pornow, the work, because you're the one who introduced me to this work.

Just real brief introduction that I know we're going to talk at a different time about Pornow,

but this is volume Pornow of Jerry Pornow. There will be a war.

Jerry Pornow, you can look up on Wikipedia who he was. He's most famous as being a science fiction

writer. Most of his career, he was basically doing strategic forecasting and future studies

for the Air Force and NASA and whatnot. He was actually the guy in charge of the human factors

lab during the Apollo projects of the guys who assessed astronaut candidates, whether or not they

would become astronauts, which the most important thing about that is this is a guy who wrote sci-fi

who literally selected who would get to go into space and he never actually opened any of the

speeches with that, which tells me more than anything about the man. Jim Bain commissioned him to

write a bunch of originally one volume. It was an anthology of called There Will Be War,

which would be about the future of arm conflict. Pornow took a combination of science fiction

writing, some of his own stuff, some other people's stuff, along with nonfiction assays,

you know, actual real world assays. Some of his own stuff, a lot more of other people's stuff.

And it was based around a specific topic. He either, in some cases, he would solicit stuff and

say, hey, write me something on this. Usually it was somebody he went out there. He either got

their work that they'd already written or he said he wanted something on a specific theme for

people. He, you know, both fiction and nonfiction that he said had thought had somebody really

important to say with that. And either they wrote it specifically or in the case of this, I think

it's more of a case of van crevold, took what he had on there on the shelf and probably just

turned it into an essay that met these requirements. One more. Sorry, I'm a little sick,

so I'm a little short of breath, so I have to pause in between. So yeah, there was one volume,

then they did another eight volumes after that, up to nine volumes.

Wall came down to 91 and there wasn't much of a market for people talked about war in the future

after 91 to about, I don't know, 98, 99 because we all thought that we had reached the end of

history and there would never be war again. And we were always proven wrong anytime people think

there will be an end of war because again, only the dead have seen the end of war. The 10th volume came

out, 2010 sometime, Fox Day, Castile House got the rights to republish the first original nine volumes

from Cornell. Jerry actually, Dr. Cornell included a new intro to a number of those books.

And like I tell people, just reading the intro and conclusions, those anthologies is some

of the best writing on strategic thinking that I could recommend to anybody. So he republished

those nine books, then he published a 10th volume, which this comes from.

And here we are, sadly, Jerry Cornell died, I believe in 2017.

Castile House's released one or two new anthologies of the same type under different supervision.

They've actually talked about releasing an 11th volume because they have the rights for

Cornell's estate to do stay, but that hasn't happened. So that's the there will be war. I didn't know

if you had any other questions or comments, but that's sir. No, that's great. You can still like

go on Amazon and buy the by the paperbacks and everything. So they are available, but you know,

you can also find if you look online, you can find them. Why don't you give us an introduction

about Van Crevold and this essay in particular? Sure. Okay. Martin Van Crevold, he is in

Israeli historian. Yes, he is Israeli. Yes, he is Jewish. Born in 1946 in the Netherlands,

Rotterdam area, area, excuse me. Obviously, that's a really interesting time to be born

as a, you know, a Jewish person in the Netherlands. I've heard it alleged that his parents,

he was actually born in a concentration camp. I don't know if that was or wasn't the case.

Keep in mind that immediately post-war, a lot of the refugee centers were literally,

they took people who were in camps of various types and moved them next door into wherever the

into the barracks, wherever the guards had been located. So when you say he may have been

born in a concentration camp, that doesn't necessarily mean behind a wire, but that's

his birth 1950. They immigrated to Israel. Van Crevold actually has an interesting biography that

was published by Castelia House with an audio book for version that sadly, I think Amazon has

taken down, but if you can get the chance to get it from Castelia House, really great book

for an intellectual historian, which backup a second. The reason I recommend this and why reason

I tell people to go read Van Crevold's disease, probably the premier scholar of insurgency and

non-state warfare in the world right now. So that's what makes it important. That's why he's taught

all kinds of, you know, unusual places like the Marine Corps and Fabius Warfare College. He's

taught a lot at either him directly or, you know, using his materials as taught at US Army or

excuse me, United States Special Operations Command. He's taught at the Mises Institute. So,

again, he's an interesting guy. He will engage with lots of people who wouldn't necessarily,

you would think he would engage with. But he was back to his bio. Yeah, he immigrated

Israel 1950, weird time. He was born with a cleft pallet that made him unfit from military service,

which in Israel, it's always been kind of weird to not serve, because the implication is

you're a draft Dodger. But being medically exempt, he got to finish his bachelor's degree early,

and he actually got to start grad school early and go abroad to get his PhD and come back.

And he was probably the youngest PhD in Israel at that time, just because, again, he didn't have to

go through military service, which he went to London School of Economics. His PhD thesis was on,

excuse me, the Varemacht in Greece in Italy, excuse me, Greece in Yugoslavia during the

Second World War, which brought how he got into military history, which people poised out.

The one scholar in his country of his time without a military record. It's kind of a little ironic

that he's the guy most known for military history, but that's what he got into.

Long story. Throughout his career, he's always been known as sort of the guy who either,

not necessarily pushed the envelope, but the guy who took hardcore scholarship into sort of like

the peripheral subjects of military history that civilians don't generally pay attention.

Like you look at command and war, literally has a book called Command and War, which deals just

that the the history of command. What is the nature of command? How do we develop commanders?

How have we attempted to develop or people attempted to develop commanders in the past? What are the

consequences? He got another book on logistics and history of military logistics, which it's been

pointed out that at that time, it was only the second scholarly textbook on a scholarly research,

a scholarly book on military logistics in the world. There was somebody in the Austro-Hungarian

Empire produced a book earlier in the 20th century, but nobody really paid attention to that.

And again, logistics drives war and army travels on as a stomach. As a reminder, everybody,

nobody likes to talk about logistics, but things like food and ammunition matter of great deal

if you want to win a war, especially if you have advanced weapons system. If you can't,

I tell people, you can have a tank, you can have a fighter plane, you can have the best

systems in the world, but if I can't put fuel and ammunition in your tank or a fighter plane,

what you have is a giant paper weight. He also did a history of the Israeli military

He did some really cool work that I actually used in my grad school research about the development,

the professionalization development of officer training in the West, which is really interesting,

because long story short, most of the West, we pretend that we're imitating

Prussian German military culture while really doing a lot of

French military culture combined with a lot of managerialism and that sort of accounts for a lot

of our problems in war. Probably the thing he's most known for is 91, he did a book called

the Transformation of War that gets into, again, what it says on the box, Transformation of War

from a traditional conventional war into unconventional war, and then what we were beginning to see in

91, which we very much seen since then is non-state actors becoming combatants, groups like Hezbollah

and whatnot, and the breakdown of the station between what is a true state and what is a non-state

actor. From there, he sort of expanded his thesis into the rising decline of the state,

which is how he got in with the Mises guys. And at a certain point, in between all those things,

he started writing about history of equality in the West, history of feminism and stuff,

which really made a lot of people unhappy because essentially he was accused of becoming an extreme

far-rightist, whereas he would just say he's being intellectually honest based upon the evidence,

so he's extremely critical for the feminism, as well as a lot of the complaints in things like

my affirmative action and minority politics. He's known a lot for criticizing things like that.

So, yeah, that's the man that's the work. And again, part of why we know about this guy,

why he became so influential is Israeli academic or Israeli academia, rather.

The language of academics in Israel is English. Obviously, they speak Hebrew as the first language,

but keep in mind throughout Western countries. There are only so many languages that are used

for high-level academics, because again, if you have a small population language that nobody

else speaks, it doesn't do you any good to just do academics in your language. So, you tend to do one

of the big four or five like English or French or Russian or Spanish. In Israel,

he uses English academics or he uses English language for academics, rather. So, that's how we got to

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This book or excuse me, this essay it deals explicitly with the concept of war and migration.

I have to just title war and migration. The very short I would say conclusion to it if you have

you know it's too long for you to read, which we're going to read it for you, is that war and

migration are fundamentally the same things. If you have mass migration, especially assisted mass

migration into an area where the host population has no connection to you, where you're a foreign

outside force migrating in, whether you intend to or not, substantively that is no different than warfare.

And I think that pretty much sums it up, sir.

I think it's interesting that his family moved to Israel in 1950 and he would come to the

conclusion that a mass migration into an area would be considered war.

Yeah, and I think he actually deals with that issue directly in here. One of the things he brings

up in his biography is his father joked routinely that they moved to Israel just because they didn't

want to feel like they were Jewish anymore. He comes from a fairly assimilated family. He's

describes himself as a a Dutch Calvinist who happens to be an atheist Jew. He says that explicitly

in his biography. He's one of those people who would say it's it's almost sort of an accident

of ancestry that his family is Jewish and he's not anti-Semitic in the slightest. He's not,

you know, he's not a self-hating Jew in any sense of the word, but he's somebody who's very honest

that, you know, Judaism is not really a defining aspect of himself so much as it's the religion that

defines so much civic life in his country. And even then he said, he said his family would probably

much rather have stayed in the Netherlands, but it wasn't, you know, exactly the greatest time

to be there for anyone. And the fact that he could get to the, uh,

get to Israel, sponsor to go to Israel, his family could get sponsored to go to Israel,

whereas they couldn't get sponsored someplace like the United States is just the way it happened

in the accident of history. And didn't he write a book that basically pretty much got him banned

from Germany? Well, my understanding is the book is actually illegal in Germany or they,

or at least I know the original covers illegal called Hitler in Hell. Hitler in Hell, excuse me,

got some shortness of breath because I'm sick right now. Yeah, which is also published by

Castelli House. When I spoke to him, he described it as an autobiography of Hitler because he said,

you know, as a military historian who did so much of work too, everybody said he needed to do a

biography on Hitler and he made it clear that it's like, what was he going to say new?

Then nobody else had said, and he said he decided he was going to do it as a fictional autobiography.

The thing is, one of the issues of any time you actually understand the target of your research,

you very much have to make whatever effort you can to see from there will be their perspective.

You know, one of the things that our friend Dale Cooper has gotten a lot of hate for recently is,

you know, explaining what the issues were concerning Germans and Germany in 1940s.

Well, Van Krevel is one of the people who did this a lot earlier, probably a lot deeper than

any of our friends have done, and consequently he made a lot of enemies. It's just

Van Krevel being Jewish, being Israeli, and his parents being survivors of the Holocaust.

You can't really throw many stones at him. At least nothing will really stick.

Gotcha. All right. And sorry, Matt, if I had to know you were sick, I would have postponed this.

It's complications of medication. I did not know until like 20 minutes ago.

All right, I'm going to start reading and stop me whenever.

It seems like Mr. Pernell throws a, gets a little boomerish in the introduction here,

so if you want to stop at any time there.

Like I said, I love Pernell and I tell people to read him, but not all of his stuff is the greatest

stuff ever. All right. So this is Pernell's editor's introduction to war and migration by Martin

Van Krevel. Martin Van Krevel is arguably the world's most preeminent military historian.

Here he presents us with an analysis of war and migration and reaches the inevitable conclusion.

War is often indistinguishable from migration, although sometimes it takes longer.

The governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, himself an assimilated child of immigrants,

says that migration without the intent of assimilate, assimilation is invasion and act of war.

It is often said that the United States is a nation of immigrants. This is true enough,

but it is a nation created by the melting pot by assimilated immigrants who entered legally and

came to be Americans, or at least were not opposed openly opposed to the idea.

As Bill Buckley said, one could study to become an American in a way that one could not become

Swiss or a Swede. Assimilation was not always easy and for freed slaves it was difficult,

but it was generally the goal. The story of America and migration is as old as America.

Yeah, I was just going to say just the idea that in a European country you can't become

Swiss or Swedish. We've seen a complete attack on that principle in the decades since then.

Yeah, I would wonder if Pornow would still feel the same way after witnessing what's been

happening, whether he'd feel the same way about all this. He would probably more insistent about it

being war. The more recent migrants do not all accept assimilation as a goal,

they seek to preserve their diversity. Eploribus Unim is not the goal of the caliphate.

Open rejection of toleration without demitude is proclaimed. The United States faces numerous

decisions after migration, immigration, and assimilation. Dr. Van Crueville gives us crucial

information on the history of migration from the times before the Trojan War to the present.

Starting the body of the text, Warren Migration by Martin Van Crueville.

Warren Migration have always been closely related. The relationship was recorded as early as 1300 BC

when we were informed the Israelites followed Moses out of Egypt to embark upon the enterprise that

ultimately led them to the Promised Land of Canaan. As you will no doubt recall, they promptly conquered

it. And since that time, for over 3315 years, the length between war and the large scale movement

of people from one place to another has never been broken. Yet despite the way these masks

movements of people have had a profound effect on human history, there has never been a systematic

effort to explore the ways in which the two great phenomena, war and migration, interact.

This essay is a preliminary attempt to rectify the situation.

One, from the Exodus to the Greek, from the Exodus to the Great Trek.

The Old Testament tells the famous story of the Israelites, which begins sometime around 1800 BC

when Canaan was visited by famine. This caused a patriarch Jacob and his extended family to travel

to Egypt, where they and their offspring were initially welcomed, but later enslaved.

Four centuries later, having multiplied considerably, a leader by the name of Moses arose.

Under his divinely inspired command, they left Egypt.

He's jumping out and ignoring a big part of the story, but that's okay. I would hope most

people know the story. After crossing the Red Sea, they marched into the Sinai Desert,

where God, who was waiting for them, gave them the Pentateuch. From the desert, they proceeded

very slowly to what is known today as the Kingdom of Jordan. It is said that Moses must have been the

first general staff officer for who else would have required 40 years to cross what is actually a

very small desert. It's a professional inside Job. And after finally arriving on the threshold of

the Holy Land four decades later, he died. His successor Joshua, who subsequently proved to be a

formidable military commander, buried Moses, then led the Israelites across the river and into

Canaan proper. These intrepid immigrants swiftly conquered the land and settled it after killing

or enslaving most of the inhabitants. Whether or not the tale of the conquest of Canaan

is historical has been debated for generations. In particular, scholars of question whether the

Israelites could realistically have fielded a 600,000 man army, not counting the women and children.

Israel's first prime minister, David Bingerian, fancied himself a biblical scholar and considered

6,000 to be a more acceptable figure. His view brought him into immediate conflict with

Israel's orthodox rabbis, who consider literally every word of the Old Testament to be gospel truth.

That's a funnier. Yeah, and keep in mind the context of

Israel. He's basically pointing out that in terms of society, divided between those who are

religious and those who aren't. And the biggest issue in modern Israel has always been

non-religious people are always making religious-based arguments that they don't believe in in any

other circumstance. Yeah, even I read Shahak's book, Jewish History, Jewish Religion,

he makes that point throughout. But for our purposes, it does not really matter whether the story

is historic, historical, or symbolic. Still less do the details concern us. What is important

is that after all these years, a story of geographic relocation and conquest is still commemorated

by all Jews around the world. In other words, migration was war. In fact, in so far as ancient war

frequently involved not only soldiers and armies, but entire nations who left their homeland,

Mittmann und Ross und Wagen, with man and horse and wagon, as the Germans say, war was migration.

And this is more than anything is the most important part of the essay. If you got this

highlight this right here, I would tell the reader that is the fundamental thesis of this essay.

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The Exodus was far from the only episode of its kind. For example, the Dorians are believed to

have entered Greece from the north in the years around 1100 BC. As with the conquest of Canaan,

the question of whether the Dorian migration really took place or not has been much disputed.

Thucydides has the following to say about the topic of the introduction to his book on the

Peloponnesian War. The country now called Hellus had no settled population in ancient times,

and said there was a series of migrations as the various tribes being under the constant pressure

of invaders who were stronger than they were were always prepared to abandon their own territory.

In the belief that day to day necessities of life could be secured just as well in one place as

in another, they showed no reluctance in moving from their homes and therefore built no cities of

any size or strength nor acquired any important resources. Where the soil was most fertile,

there were the most frequent changes of population, as in what is now called Thessaly in Boisha,

in most of Peloponnes, except Arcadia, and in others of the richest parts of Hellus.

For in these fertile districts, it was easier for individuals to secure greater powers than their

neighbors. This led to disunity, which often caused the collapse of these states, which in any case

were more likely than others to attract the attention of foreign invaders. There's a lesson for

today, isn't it? I guess that's eternal. It's eternal lesson. Very little in human nature has ever

changed. It is interesting to observe that Attica, which because of the poverty of her soil,

was remarkably free from political disunity, has always been inhabited by the same race of people.

Indeed, this is an important example of my theory that it was because of migrations that there

was uneven development elsewhere. For when people were driven out from other parts of Greece by war

or by disturbances, the most powerful of them took refuge in Athens as being a stable society.

They then became citizens and soothed made the city even more populous than it had been before,

with the result that later Attica became too small for inhabitants and colonies were sent forth

to Ionia. Without getting too bogged down in the weeds of Greek history, for an American,

especially, it's important to understand Greece, obviously. Number one, the area extended far

beyond which modern Greece. Asia Minor, the whole peninsula that makes the bulk of Turkey was

historically part of Hellus, and it started to extend north and east into the Balkans.

But anyway, is that area very jagged coastline, which means despite being a relatively small

country, you have huge coastlines throughout, some of which actually lead to inland rivers that go

pretty deep inland, and within the country itself proper, you have a few very fertile areas

combined with lots of areas that are either relatively mountainous, very rough, or somewhat

arid. So it's a weird population center, a situation in Greece historically, where you have

some areas that support large populations, a coastline that you can use to go basically anywhere

in the world, and large parts of the interior of the country that are just rough that nobody

really wants to live there. There are other examples besides the Israelites and the Dorians.

The Atraskins migrated from Armenia to Central Italy, around 850 BC, according to a recent

study. The Ga... the Gaia... Gaels is out for now, so I don't know if these are the same Gaels from

Ireland and Scotland. That's what I was wondering. The Gaels launched numerous attacks on the Hellenistic

kingdoms in the Balkans and Asia Minor in the 30th and 2nd centuries BC, although they were

ultimately repulsed. And in 58 BC, as Caesar tells us, the Helvedi wished to migrate from their

homeland in southern Germany to Southeastern Gaul and asked him, the newly established pro-concilum

of Gaul, for permissions across Roman-occupied territory on the way. After he refused to

grant it, they fought him, were badly beaten, and were forced to turn back. That failed migration

triggered a whole series of wars which ended in the Roman conquest of the entirety of Gaul

within six years. The nomadic Arabs who occupied much of the territory of the Byzantine Empire and

the 6th and 8th centuries provide another informative example. So did the Magiars, whose original

home was in the southern Ukraine and who reached what is hungry today in the 10th century AD.

Their westward migration was halted in 955 when they were defeated at the Battle of Letchfield near

present-day Augsburg. The Mongol and Manchurian conquest of China, 1205-79 and 1618-1644 respectively,

also led to large-scale migrations as various people retreated to the west,

displacing other nations in turn. And just for context, say, the Huns' advance into

Western Europe probably was a consequence of much earlier expansion from what is currently

Mongolia, you know, putting pressure in their homelands, the Hunish homelands.

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The largest and most famous migratory episode, if that is the correct label for a process

that's stretched out over several centuries, was the so-called vulgar vandrogate rung,

the migration of peoples. It's entirely transformed Europe from about the middle of the

second century AD to the middle of the sixth century, destroying countless old polities

and creating an equally large number of new ones.

Driven out of the east by their more formidable neighbors, wave after wave of barbarian tribe,

crashed into central and western Europe. Some bypassed the Roman Empire to the north,

whereas others crossed as frontiers and introduced territory to wage war on the inhabitants.

The Saxons reached Spain, the Visigoths, southwestern France, Spain, and Portugal. The vandals invaded

North Africa, the Burgundians, whose original home was in Poland, traveled to the land that is now

named after them, Burgundy. The Huns, whose original habitat was the Caucasus, is it Caucasus?

I never remember how to pronounce it.

I think it's usually Prats, it's Caucasus.

Yeah, because that makes it sound plural, that's why it doesn't sound right in my head.

Yeah, it is where we get the word Caucasian though.

Correct, yeah. The Huns, whose original habitat was the Caucasus and central Asia,

traveled west, slaying and conquering everyone and everything on their way until a coalition of

Romans and Visigoths finally stopped them at Cologne in 451. But the defeat of Attila did not

by any means put an end to the series of migrations. The Huns were followed by the Lombards,

the Lombards by the Bulgars, and between them they changed the maps and the very name place names

of Europe. Yeah, and just say they know the Huns, obviously the Huns, we know about who probably had

from Central Asia putting pressure, again, probably an expansion out of what is now Mongolia.

But the Volta Carvanderung, that's literally the Germanic people's migrations, which is a huge

part of what destroyed the Roman Empire. It's also why we're speaking a bastardized Germanic language

in English. All these migrating people as well as many others that could be mentioned were

relatively simple tribal societies. In terms of organization, technology, military civilization,

literature, the arts and the like, they could not match the settled, more civilized societies

they encountered and often conquered. The book of Joshua describes Canaan as the land bristling

with fortified cities and yet they were quickly defeated by the nomadic Israelites. At a time when

Roman power and conversing practically all the lands around the Mediterranean was approaching

in Zenith, Rome's enemies in Germany and Gaul consisted of endlessly shifting tribes who lived in

wooden huts. Four centuries later, the Germanic Visigoths sacked Rome. The Huns, Amianus, Marcelinus,

Marcelinus, says were a race savage beyond all parallel. He described them in distinctly unfavorable terms.

Quoting, they are certainly in the shape of men, however uncouth, and are so hardy that they require

neither fire nor well-flavored food, but live on the roots of such herbs as they get in the fields

or on the half-raw flesh of any animal, which they merely warm rapidly by placing it between their

own thighs and the back of their horses. They never shelter themselves under roofed houses,

nor is there even to be found among them a cabin thatched with reeds, but they wander about

roaming over the mountains and the woods and accustomed themselves to bear frost and hunger

and thirst from their very cradles. Just to a point when he talks about sitting on stuff on

horseback in order to make meat edible. If you salt it and then you do that, it's called jerky.

The anonymous Roman author of Derrebus Belicus, writing early in the 5th century AD,

speaks of other migratory tribes of bang barbarians. Bang may have been all these barbarians

were capable of, but they did so with sword in hand. Although the process might take time,

such as the 514 years separated the Cymbrian War from the sack of Rome, very often the barbarians

eventually managed to defeat their more developed opponents and take over their lands. There are

two cardinal factors that explain the frequent victory of the simple and less civilized migrants

over their more sophisticated stationary opponents.

First, while the settles societies enjoyed technological superiority in terms of

jewels of energy available per capita, the primary sources of mechanical energy were stationary

devices such as windmills and watermills. When it came to war and battle, which were intrinsically

mobile, both the civilized soldiers and their barbarian enemies depended entirely upon the muscles

of men and beasts. As a result, most of the technological advantage enjoyed by the civilized

societies was irrelevant because it could not be brought to bear on the battlefield.

Second, the migrations were usually long drawn out processes. Though armed invasions and battles

were frequent, there were also long periods of peace. Therefore, there was plenty of time for both

sides take each other's measure and to learn from each other. Renegades and captives taken a war

often played a large role. This exchange of information almost invariably worked to the benefit

of the less civilized parties. For example, the Mongol armies which conquered China and came close

to overrunning Europe in the mid-13th century included many specialists who utilized technologies

learned from the Chinese, including various types of siege engines. 200 years later,

the Ottoman Turks did the same in their westward drive towards Constantinople and beyond.

This is a really important part to understand that migration is conquest, the assimilation by

the migrants is a huge part of how they win. The siege of Constantinople, most of the artillery

pieces were actually manned by Christians and basically all of their cannons were produced

by Christians. The Mongol cons quest of China, all of the siege engines were various Chinese,

people, usually ethnic Chinese specialists. Even then, the Germanic migrations, we know

just upon some weird and y-haplogroups you see in parts of Europe that they had to have

picked up an assimilated, some amount of people in their migrations and integrated them into

the migrate culture. In boasts of the words, the ability to assimilate is part of how you conquer

the enemy. The migratory phenomenon was, yeah, that's learning a language,

looking like them, trusting like them. Sometimes key technologies, one of the most obvious ones,

if you were to talk to a military store and maybe not to the laymen, is different ways of

putting devices on horses or animals. I think it was the Huns who actually introduced the stirrup

to Western Europe, which may not sound very important to us, but understand that until you put

a stirrup on the horse or on the saddle, a cavalryman couldn't use a lance and couldn't

charge with that, which meant that prior to that, cavalry was mostly something used for scouting

and on the screens, the outside of the formation where suddenly with the stirrup, you start getting

bigger and bigger cavalry and eventually like heavy armored knights in the middle ages.

So, yeah, technology is a huge part of what spreads and it's not something that's

readily apparent at the time a lot of times. The migratory phenomenon was not solely a Eurasian one.

Africa also abounds with stories of armed migration, some historical others mythological.

3,000 years are said to have passed since the Bantu tribes began expanding out of their

original homelands in what art today, Cameroon and Nigeria, and now they can be found all over

the central and southern parts of the continent. The Zulu established Quazulu Nation in South Africa

after migrating southward along Africa's east coast. Many of these migrations bear strong

resemblances to the exit as described in the Pentateuch. In every case, the movement was said to

be have been initiated by one or more gods. On their way, the migrants witnessed many different

miracles which confirmed that there were, in fact, they were, in fact, doing the right thing.

One of the best known African migration tales is that of Ashanti, a martial tribe that migrated

westward from Ghana into the Ivory Coast, who on their way received Sikhajwa, the golden stool,

a royal and divine throne believed to have housed the spirit of the Ashanti people.

One of the last and most peculiar African migrations was the Trek of the Boars. The Boars were

European settlers of Dutch and Hugenut descent, who left Cape province in order to remain independent

in the face of a growing British presence there. The Trek lasted from 1835 to 1846 and was

unusual in the sense that the Boars set out to settle in lands inhabited by less civilized and

less technologically advanced caffirs, mostly bent to and hot and hot tribes, thus reversing the

usual pattern of migratory conflict. But like these less civilized antecedents, the Boars never

hesitated to use their superior arms against anyone who stood in their way. The Trek also resembled

other previous migrations in the sense that the migrants were strict Calvinists who believe they

act under divine guidance. Visiting the region around Pretoria back in late 1994, I saw the famous

monument to the Boar Trekkers. It must be said to the credit of the African National Congress who

took over South Africa after apartheid, the region's new rulers have not demolished it yet.

Given one of these things were written in 2017 at the latest in its

before a lot of destruction. In part of it I think has to do with the fact that the more

monument is sort of in the middle of nowhere and the urban blocks probably don't want to visit that area.

So migration was war and war was migration. Aside from relatively equal situations in Africa and

North America, when tribal societies fought each other, militarized migrations were chiefly a

matter of less developed mobile societies attacking more developed settled civilizations.

That likely explains why, in the more technologically advanced parts of the world,

migration wars came to an end in the 15th century. As the history of the American West illustrates,

once tribal warriors were able to lay their hands on modern weapons, particularly firearms,

they quickly learned to use them just as well as their opponents. But what they could not do was

produce the weapons and require ammunition for themselves. The development of firearms was a

decisive shift in the balance of power towards more technologically advanced societies, particularly

those of the West. How long this advantage will last as an open question, but there are indications

that it is already on the wane. Section 2, ethnic cleansing. Thucydides illustrated how the

process works in both directions. Migration usually leads to war, but war can also lead to migration.

For after war takes place, one of the common consequences is the forced migration that is

currently known as ethnic cleansing. Some of the earliest migrations of this kind are recorded in

the Old Testament. The Assyrian kings had an established policy of exiling half the population

from the lands they conquered, one they followed after conquering the kingdom of Israel.

A century later, the Babylonians sent part of the population of Judah into exile after

subjugating that kingdom. The small quasi-Jewish communities in Kurdistan, as well as the larger

pre-1948 ones in Iraq, are said to consist of descendants of the Israelites forced to leave Israel

by the Assyrians. Both empires had made a habit of bringing in other peoples to take place of those

that they had exiled. Thus, the Samaritans, a small community of under a thousand people who

currently live in Israel and the West Bank, are believed to be descended from settlers brought

into the region by its Assyrian conquerors during the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

In part of this too, the un-stated part is internal Israeli politics about who's really Jewish,

which has always become an issue, especially after the last major Jewish populations have migrated

to Israel in the United States. They're looking at smaller and smaller populations in arguing

amongst themselves, whether or not they're really Jewish, whether or not they can really be

assimilated into Israel. The spectacular release at the British Museum that originally decorated

the palace of the Assyrian King Sonekareb reigns 706 to 681 BC at Nineveh, at Nineveh, provide us with

some idea of what Nasirian ethnic cleansing operation may have looked like. The subject of the

release is the siege of Lakhish, a city in the Judean Plain in 701 BC. In addition to the military

operations, they also show us what happened to the prisoners and deserters who left the city.

Men were decapitated, there are a lot of headless corpses lying around or impaled.

Women and children were left more or less unharmed than were taken away by the victors accompanied

by wagons laden with blue. Since Lakhish was never rebuilt, the captives presumably went to places

from once they never returned. This suggests that women and children represented the majority of

those who went into exile, although accounts from the Old Testament suggests that on at least

some occasions, men were spared to share their fate. Very often, depending on the fanny skills

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The Romans preferred not to exile those they defeated, but to subjugate, rule, and levy taxes on them.

Cicero calls such taxes a perpetual penalty for defeat. However, during the period between

200 BC and 120 AD, they regularly took enormous numbers of prisoners. These prisoners,

men, women, and children were then transported to the slave markets, especially the famous ones

of Rhodes and Delos, and sold there. Entire communities, including great cities such as

Corinth and Carthage, were left almost devoid of inhabitants. This conquest-based slave trade

brought a wide variety of different tribes, cultures, and religions together in transformed

Rome, the greatest slave market of all, into a new Babylon. The men who followed Spartacus,

the Throssian gladiator, who led the great slave of all against Rome in 73 to 71 BC,

came from many different lands. Spartacus's goal was for them to all return to their

countries of origin, but his men refused, preferring to stay in Italy, where they could kill,

pillage, and rape. They were eventually defeated at Bronsinium by eight legions led by Marcus

Lassinius, Crassus, and hundreds were crucified along the Appian way. Spartacus himself

has believed to have been killed in the battle, but his body was never found.

That's part of why we say there's only one successful slave revolt in history, and that's

Haiti. Again, the Spartacus revolt could potentially have been successful, but they decided

they just wanted to hang out and loiter in the area that they just escaped from, so they were

destroyed in the Appian. In 66 to 70 AD, and again in 135 to 37 AD, the Jews of Palestine rose

against their Roman conquerors. The Romans suppressed both rebellions and responded by engaging

in extensive ethnic cleansing. Hundreds of thousands of people were driven out,

and to use an expression coin nearly 2,000 years later, Jerusalem was made Judentfri.

Jews were prohibited from living in the city and even entering it. Such episodes are by no means

rare in history. The reason so many Jewish examples exist is that despite the force migrations

they experience, they manage to preserve their religion and their ethnic identity.

Other peoples forced to leave their homelands were either less fortunate or less determined.

That does not necessarily mean that Jews kept their race pure. However, for as modern genetic

studies show, Jews settled in different countries, tends to genetically resemble the host

populations more than they do each other. And again, he's willing to stick a thumb in the eye

of mainstream opinion in his own country. Not all forced migrations were the results of war.

For example, throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, Jews were regularly

expelled from many countries, but this had little to do with war. During the century and a half

after the Reformation, there were reciprocal expulsions of Catholics by Protestants and a Protestants

by Catholics throughout Europe. The most famous example of these forced migrations was Louis

the, that's the 14th decision to revoke the Edict of Nantes in 1685, which resulted in 400,000

Huguenots being exiled from France. Even in Switzerland, the canthons were divided on the basis of

being Catholic or Protestant, and much smaller forced migrations took place.

Large-scale ethnic cleansing again raised its ugly head during the early years of the 20th century.

The Balkan Wars led to the expulsions of Muslims from the Balkan states to

broke free of the Ottoman Empire. Soon after the outbreak of World War I, the Turks,

fearing less the Christian Armenians might aid and abet the Russian enemy and acted the first

modern genocide. Hundreds of thousands of Armenian men were massacred. The rest of the population

was expelled and driven to the Syrian desert where they were left to die. The Turks also expelled

the Jews of southern Palestine and drove them from the, drove them north, although some were

taken to Alexandria, Egypt, by American ships. No sooner had the Great War ended than the

Turks again initiated a massive ethnic cleansing campaign this time against the Greeks of

Western Anatolia. This region has been home to important Greek communities for over three millennia,

but barely 5,000 Greeks remained there today.

Yeah, I would say Darryl Cooper's got a really good episode with Jack O'Willock about the

the Armenian genocide. But one of the consequences of this is that's why you have ethnic

Armenian communities throughout the former Soviet Union, not just in Armenia, proper, but other

places you have ethnic Armenian communities that are big in Israel. You have them big in

a number of other countries. And even then the issue of who's considered Greek,

the Turks actually called them Romanoi, literally called them Romans, which was a

a Greek speaker of the Eastern Orthodox Church. So a lot of times that's the only thing that

firmly defines who's Greek and in Asia Minor, just because most of the people who are Turks

or call themselves Turks aren't even really dissident from the Turkish people proper there.

Decidates of Greeks who converted and had some amount of intermixing with outsiders.

Again, our migration is war.

The period 1919 to 1921 also witnessed the expulsion of Hungarians from Armenia

and of Germans from what had been West Prussia and Celicia, but was claimed by Poland after

the war. 20 years later the Jack Boot was on the other foot. Having defeated the Poles,

Hitler expelled the masses of them from the Western from Western Poland and replaced them with

Germans. He also expelled the Jews of Alsace, Lorraine, driving them into France, after which they

were subsequently re-expelled to the gas chambers in Eastern Europe. As these events touch upon one

of history's most infamous crimes, it is important to note that the series of complicated

campaigns of expulsions directed primarily against Europe's Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs that ended

in the murder of millions could never have taken place if it had not been for the cover provided

by war. In Hitler's mind, the war and the end Los Angeles Judenfrages, or final solution of

the Jewish question, were linked. Speaking to intimates in August 1941, the fear of the third

right claimed the fact that so many Germans had lost their homes after World War I,

justified the humane expulsion of Germany's Jews. Five months later, at the von Seecon France,

the policies that lay the foundation for the Holocaust were worked out in detail.

And again, that needs to be very much understood by Americans. I'm not anyway justifying

any of the genocides of the 20th century, but keep in mind that there was a situation post-World War I

where large portion, maybe even the majority of ethnic Germans in Europe, lived outside of

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, proper.

There were more forced migrations to the east after being unexpectedly attacked

by his ally Hitler in violation of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pack. Stalin ordered the evacuation

of the Tatters. Should that be Tatters? Is that Tatters or Tatters? It should be Tatters.

pronounced Tatters. Tatters? Yeah. The half-breed descendants of Mongols.

Okay, from the Crimea. His rationale was the same as many others before him. He feared the Tatters

might join the advancing Germans, but the expulsion of the Tatters from

was nothing compared to the huge migrations that took place from 1944 to 1946.

Yeah, and to his point, a large number of Tatters did, side with the Third Reich.

And again, these are the half-breed descendants of Mongols.

As the Soviet Red Army marched west towards Berlin, it was often joined by local militias

in the Eastern European countries that occupied. 12 million Germans were driven out of their

homelands in Romania, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Poland,

West Prussia, East Prussian, Celicia, and about one-six of them died in the process.

As the war came to an end, tens of millions of people were on the move across the continent.

Refugees, slave workers, former concentration camp prisoners, prisoners of war,

almost all had nothing but rags to their names, and were trying to either escape the advancing

Russians or simply return home. Yeah, and again, this part cannot be

really emphasized enough because it's something Americans we like to think that, you know,

the war ended in 1945 with this beautiful parade, and suddenly there was peace throughout Europe,

which is complete and total bullshit. You know, obviously everything the Red Army was doing,

you know, in their territory of operation, which again, Darryl Cooper has a really good

episode on this called the Anti-Humans. But we tend to think of countries and their borders

on the ground being very concrete, while ethnic groups are kind of soft. Whereas,

Eastern Europe, it's sort of the opposite. Ethnic groups tend to be fairly cohesive,

fairly distinct, but even if you have a distinct country, you know, where does the border end?

That changes a lot throughout history, especially in Eastern Europe. To the point with Ukrainians,

there's all the Ruthenian people absolutely exist throughout history. The numbers of them that

are called Ukrainian is always a matter of debate, but because Ukraine literally means the border

land, but where exactly is the Ukraine? Well, it's somewhere between the Eastern part of Russia

and, you know, Central Poland, and that's gone back and forth throughout history, which is part

of the current fight in Eastern Europe. That to be clear, I don't have any side in that fight.

But again, there are ethnic groups that are on both sides of different lines throughout the world,

throughout Eastern Europe, with a huge number of ethnic Germans that have been there for centuries,

who Stalin forcibly moved west towards into Eastern Germany, or excuse me, into what became the

Democratic Republic of Germany, East Germany. And keep in mind, some of these groups had been gone

for so long that they never even bothered to speak proper modern Germany, which was an invention

of the, you know, the nationalist movements of the 19th century. There had been German languages,

there are German languages, but, you know, a formal German hadn't been established. So these are

people, in some cases, had hard times even communicating in proper German, who were, you know,

uprooted from places they'd been for 400 years or so. So it is impossible for Americans to understand

the amount of force migration that took place after the end of fighting in World War II.

Well, he talks about people trying to escape the advancing Russians here famously. There are many

reports of, well, there are reports of a few camps that were liberated, and the prisoners

chose to escape with the Germans rather than wait for the Russians to show up.

There are multiple cases, in some cases, maybe half or more of the prisoner population going with them.

The forced migrations in ethnic cleansing did not end in 1945. The 1947 Indo-Pakistani

war divided British India into two different countries and caused millions of people terrified

by the inter-religious violence to cross the newly established frontier between India and Pakistan

in both directions, triggered by the flight of 10 million Bengali refugees from what was then

known as East Pakistan, the third Indo-Pakistani war, which broke out in 1971, brought about the

creation of the independent Bangladesh. After the Pakistani surrender, the refugees returned

and a smaller, though still considerable number of Pakistanis were driven out of Bangladesh into

West Pakistan. The end of the Vietnam war led to the expulsion of 250,000 ethnic Chinese. Is that Hoha?

Oh, I think it's pronounced, oh yeah, Chinese Hoha, and they don't even usually use that,

usually they call them Nong in real life, but yeah, very hard, huge numbers of ethnic Chinese

in Southeast Asia, and despite being there for centuries, they are still distinctively ethnic Chinese,

despite the fact that the average American thinks that all these stations look the same.

The end of the Vietnam war led to the expulsion of 250,000 ethnic Chinese Hoha from that country,

as well as the migration of the two million Vietnamese boat people, over half of whom ultimately

settled in the United States. The 1980 Russian invasion of Afghanistan causes many as a million

Afghanis across the border into Pakistan's northwestern provinces. Despite being settled in refugee

camps there, they eventually came to jeopardize their host control over the region, a problem that

may very well present itself in other parts of the world in the future. Some of the wars that

have taken place in Africa since the 1970s, particularly those in the Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Uganda,

Rwanda Burundi, the Congo, Liberia, Angola, and Mozambique also led to enforce migration on a massive

scale. And after 42-year hiatus, ethnic cleansing returned to Europe when following the death of

longtime dictator Tito Yugoslavia broke up. When Bosnia-Hersincovina, whose population is predominantly

Muslim, declared independence from Belgrade, the Serb minority and the province embarked on an

all-out effort to avoid coming under Muslim rule. Their efforts were supported by the Serbian

government under Slobodan Milosevic, who provided its kin's men with weapons and money.

The Bosnian War, which lasted from 1992 to 1995, witnessed widespread ethnic cleansing.

The war was brought to an end by NATO aircraft launching air strikes at the stronger Serbian forces.

A later turned out that there was little difference between the two sides, both of whom committed

atrocities, including mass executions. The number of people who were displaced by that war

has been estimated at 2.2 million, including 250,000 Serbs who were driven out of the Krojina.

Krojina. Krojina, thank you. Just because I watched CNN in the day.

That fact did not prevent the world with President Clinton at its head from pointing to the

Serbs as a culprit and condemning them by every available means.

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That represents just under 1% of the entire global population.

Of the 60 million homeless, one-third of refugees who are presently living abroad.

The remaining 40 million have been displaced by the civil war, but remain inside their own

countries. Since the figures include millions of children who were born to refugees,

even second generation refugees, or displaced people after they fled, it is possible that they are

inflated. That is especially true in the case of the Palestinians whose number,

whose number, the Palestinian Authority, puts at a literally incredible 6 million.

Yeah, that number is literally incredible. However, there is every sign that the number of

displaced people is only going to grow and increase the size of the global mass migration in coming

years. Like I said, there's always a lot of subtext with his writing.

Same with Litvac, right? Litvac, right?

Yeah, which again, both of them are people we should read.

Yes, absolutely. For example, Israel's war of independence, which the Palestinians

call the Nakba catastrophe, actually led to the expulsion of about 600,000 people.

The June 1967 war created at most another 300,000 refugees.

Nevertheless, the refugee camps near Jericho have become ghost towns and have largely

remained so to the present day. As of 2015, large numbers of Palestinian refugees are scattered

in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, while others have joined the

ongoing Muslim migration to Europe and the United States. Because Israel's Arab neighbors

find it useful to have no intention of permitting it to go away, the plight of the displaced Palestinians

is both the most persistent refugee situation as well as the one that has attracted the most sustained

international attention. Unfortunately, the future does not bode well since the possibility that

Jordan will eventually fall to Daesh, ISIS, is all too real. Should that come to pass,

it is not inconceivable that the government in Jerusalem would deem it necessary for

reasons of national security to drive out the two million Palestinians remaining in the West Bank

as well. He is, I guess we're probably near the point where we want to take a break, but

part of what you have to understand about Kravil is despite being a national

security historian who does so much unspecial operations, he is really persona non grata

with the Israeli defense force. So he's known for having a lot of sources who are, again,

because everybody serves in the military veterans who give him information and leak documents to him,

but the formal IDF has repeatedly criticized him about all kinds of things to the point that he

was not allowed to give speeches to like IDF officer schools because they were worried about him

starting fights. That's great. All right, well, we'll cut it here and pick up for part two.

I think we can get through this in two parts, right? Yeah, let me see. Just point up. Yeah,

see how many pages we have left? Yeah, we only got like five pages left. You want to finish it now?

Yeah, we can do that. Okay, I have to go time. Yeah. All right.

Three, voluntary war-related migration. Though the use of force is war is outstanding

characteristic, not all war-related migrations are carried out by force. Very often people

decide to leave a war-torn region out of their own free will. One reason for doing so, which

played an important role during the 20th century, is the desire to avoid conscription. In the decades

following the development of the French Revolutionary Army, conscription became common throughout

Europe and was rigidly enforced. Many of those wanted to evade force military service once

to the USA, the British colonies, and Latin America. A huge portion of the American, excuse me,

ethnic German migration in North America was from people who wanted to avoid conscription.

Ironically, a huge amount of the Israelis, because again, I tell people, if you ever get a chance,

watch the travel channel. And inevitably you'll hear about somebody from Israel who's got to go back

to take over a family business. In the un-stated part, this is somebody who went abroad for school,

made sure they were gone so long they couldn't get drafted, and now that they're old enough,

and they can't be drafted, they're going home. Because, you know, there's no risk to them.

Today, Eritrea is the country that produces the largest number of refugees trying to avoid

national service, military, or other. The country is governed by a despot named Isaiah Afwerki.

Freedom and human rights are unknown. Men and unmarried women are conscripted, often for life.

This has caused thousands of Eritreans, particularly young men, to flee to Ethiopia.

From there, they usually continue on towards any other country they can enter, legally or illegally.

Again, another part of the subtext is he's from a country that tries to have universal conscription

to include women. War also leads to migration in another way.

From the earliest days of war, victorious soldiers have been besieged by the women of the

defeated in search of safety, food, and not least sheer masculine force. What a polite way to say that.

Yeah, that's a very, that's him being diplomatic. What a polite way to say that?

That still remains the case. Army is often prohibit fraternization, as the allied ones

did in Germany after World War II. Some states even forbade marriages between their troops and

women from the occupied population. Usually, these efforts are to no avail. In World War II,

American soldiers overpaid, oversex, and over here, as their British allies described them,

often had the time of their lives after the war's end. Most of them eventually returned home alone,

but an estimated 60,000 American soldiers brought back a Simeonina or a Freyline as a wartime

souvenir. Eventually, he got so common for them to seek other ways of getting their

girlfriends home. Eventually, the occupation command just abandoned the restrictions and allowed

them to marry. But the Korean War is known to have produced an even larger migration,

most likely because of the ban on marrying Japanese women. Japan served as a principle U.S.

base during the Korean War, was lifted. From 1942 to 1952, the number of GIs who married

foreign women was around 1 million. That's also a very polite way of saying that a generation of

Japanese men had largely been destroyed. The wars in Southeast Asia from 1965 to 1975 that

involved about 2.5 million American troops generated another crop of war brides.

But although the phenomenon is not entirely unknown in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is much less common.

The differences that Muslims are extremely jealous of their women and segregate them as much

as possible, hence the U.S. military and the hope of not further inflaming the occupied populations

has done its best to discourage the troops from fraternizing with the local women.

Much more important than either of these forms of postwar migration is the kind which is driven

by the hope of a safer, more orderly, and more prosperous life abroad. This describes the

majority of modern migrations. Their destinations are primarily the rich countries of the West as well

as Australia. Migrants with a Christian background are normally absorbed without too many problems,

especially if they are white, as refugees from the former Yugoslavia are. However, the Lebanese

Christian diaspora has shown that even those from Arab backgrounds can adapt to the West.

Hindus and Buddhists also tend to do well.

Just for a completely unofficial point of reference, I have never met people who are

quite as racist as Arab Christians who move to the West.

Oh yeah, I know a couple.

You're all white nationalism, you're all white supremacy.

By contrast, most Muslim migrants are fanatically opposed to any kind of cultural assimilation.

Using their mosques, community centers, and accepting religious imams as their leaders,

they actively resist any attempt to integrate them. Some even begin proselytizing for their way of

life as they have every right to do in a democratic country. I love that sense.

He is incredibly sometimes polite with how he says offensive things, but he is blunt.

Their objective is to spread their views on what the late Samuel Huntington used to call identity.

Identity, as Huntington describes it, includes the relations between God and man,

the individual in the group, the citizen in the state, parents and children, husband and wife,

as well as differing views of the relative importance of rights and responsibilities,

liberty and authority, equality and hierarchy.

The simple fact that he cites Huntington says a lot about his intellectual position.

It also includes general relations between sexes as well as the rights of homosexuals,

as well as many of the rights many Westerners hold dear in both their private lives

and into sociopolitical arena. As of 2015, Muslims form about 8% of the population of the European

Union. I wonder what that is now. That is also why the unofficial reason why basically

everybody opposed Turkey's admission into the European Union, because Turkey would immediately

become the most populous state in the European Union.

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So it would be a huge shift in balance in terms of Muslims there. I will say that keep in mind

because citizenship laws are so much different in Western Europe that 8% probably does not reflect

huge numbers of long-term migrants to include people who are the third generation in a country

who are not citizens of their respective countries. In large cities, especially wealthy ones

situated on important communication lines or featuring seaports, the percentage of Muslims

tends to be much higher. In some cities, entire neighborhoods have been taken over and reshaped

in accordance with the migrants preferences. These neighborhoods, such as Tower Hamlets in East

London and the Courageum District in Brussels, have assumed a decidedly Mohammedan character

complete what mosques veiled women and moisons. Moisons calling the faithful to prayer.

Most of those neighborhoods are slums where the inhabitants tend to be unskilled,

undereducated and unemployed. Many of their residents cannot even speak the language of their

hosts. Further complicating the situation, the newcomers lose their custom control over wives

and children who tend to be more amenable to integration. This ongoing interfamily conflict

not infrequently released to domestic violence. Muslim immigrants often feel underprivileged

and discriminated against even though they are living off the largesse, one might even say the

tribute of the people whose lands they occupy or are occupying. I was going to take a moment to

point out that the issue with language, not only do they do a poor job of adopting the language

of their host country, the fact they're cut off from the education system in their original

country of origin. Large number of their children don't grow speaking proper Arabic or or do or

whatever. So you get a lot of people who speak the equivalent of, I don't know, what's the best

way to say it, ebonyx except they're not obviously black. They're speaking a non-language that's

of such a poor quality that it's like they're not educated and anything.

What's interesting here is when he talks about the losing control to becoming accustomed

and becoming integrated, that's exactly what happens to the Jews when they were in countries

that liberalized. They were able to come out from under the power of their rabbis and they basically

that they would then petition for their own rights to get away from their rabbis.

Yeah, it is a secular person who's ethnically Jewish who, you know, he would probably say that

explicitly. But what was this one? Further complicated in the situation, the newcomers

lose their accustomed control over wives and children. It's going to be more amenable to

integration. This ongoing interfamily conflict, not infrequent, at least domestic violence.

Muslim immigrants often feel underprivileged and discriminated against, even though they are

living off the largest one might even say tribute to the liberty I already read that, sorry.

It is true that only a small percentage of the immigrants in question turns to violence,

let alone politically motivated violence. But it is also true that in all the countries to which

they have immigrated, Muslim immigrants are committing crimes that are rate that far exceeds

the native population. A portion of this crime represents a continuation of politics that is

indistinguishable from terrorism and will inevitably lead to harsh countermeasures and eventually

reprisals. Again, migration is war. The present situation is more than a little reminiscent of past

migration inspired wars and boats ill for the future. It is estimated that as many as five

million of France's Muslims already live in zones, zones or bains sensibly, where the French police

and government have relatively little control. The modern form of economic migration is not

caused by war, but it is threatening to turn into a cause of war and as has happened many times

before. An informative example of how minority, majority conflict can lead to violence can be seen

in the 16th century France. For 30 years following John Calvin's break from the Roman church in

1530, Catholics and Huguenots looked at each other with increasing mistrust. This mistrust

occasionally sparks sporadic violence and over time, the violence gradually escalated. In 1562,

with the Huguenots numbering 12.5% of the French population, full-scale war finally broke out.

The religious issues were intertwined with political differences and foreign powers,

such as England, Spain, and the low countries, various German princes and even the papacy were

drawn into the battle. By the time Henry IV was finally able to put an end to the eight wars

of religion in 1598 by issuing the Edict of Nantes, more French men had been killed than in any other

conflict prior to World War I, including the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars.

Conclusions

War is far from the only cause of migration. Other reasons primarily economic have always

played an important part in encouraging people to leave their native lands. As the examples of

the Puritans and the Huguenots show, religious motives can also be a factor. Yet even when these

other reasons were the cause, war and migration have been closely linked in various and complex ways.

At sometimes, war and migration were essentially the same, as in the great migration of people

during the first few centuries after Christ, the Arab expansion after 632 AD, the Maggiar invasion

of Europe, the Mongol invasions of China, and the movements of many African tribes from one

part of the continent to another. At other times, the relationships between the two phenomena

were more complicated, such as ethnic cleansing that rendered war unnecessary or took place

after war's end, massive avoidance of conscription, or soldiers bringing home concubines and war

brides. All these various forms have often intermingled, all appear regularly in the annals of

human history, and all will doubtless continue to do so in the future. The only thing that changes

in their relative importance is their relative importance at any given point in time.

As far as the West is concerned, the most significant migration today is the massive influx of

Muslims. The reason is that unlike the people of the secularized West, Muslims take their religion

and the way of life it prescribes, seriously. As a consequence, they are much harder to integrate

than other, more malleable, immigrants.

To understand, this is basically the only reason anybody in the establishment of the West

is concerned about this issue. It's also a large part of why parts of the interior of America,

like the South, especially why the establishment hates us, is because we're people who still believe

in religion and still live it as opposed to just treating it as a window dressing that means nothing.

For the present, it would be going too far to say that the refugees, it would be going too far

to say that the refugees, as well as those who are responsible for their plight back in their

homelands, are actively waging war against the West. They lack the leadership and organization

required for the effective, large-scale violence that war entails. However, it must be recognized

that more than a few in their midst are not averse to using violence in order to achieve their aims.

They have, after all, invaded numerous countries without regard for the will of the people of

those countries and their presence is no less likely to spark resistance than armed invasions

of the past. Since war, as Klaus Witz teaches, has a built-in tendency to escalate,

the resistance can be expected to graduate into all armed conflicts over time, especially as

seems likely if the influx continues and all the valiant efforts at integration prove futile.

From Berlin's Jerusalem, let those with ears to listen, listen.

That's it.

Yeah.

The, what was I going to say there?

We see this now, their reports coming out of Springfield that Haitians are just walking

into gun stores and they're selling them guns.

Well, again, I mean, part of the problem is if you were not to sell them, one report to the ATF

and you're probably going to lose your license because race is now the sin.

Yeah. Well, I mean, officially, anybody who holds an FFL is allowed to refuse sale to anyone

for any reason. That is officially.

Officially, but if that reason is racism, suddenly all of your justifications go out.

That's the magic word that ends up, their magic word that is the state of exception and

contemporary society.

And also, he mentions that they have no leadership to expect them to wage war. They have no

leadership. They have, well, I mean, it almost seems like they do now. I mean, if they're being flown

in here, and given, basically, given places to live, and given vehicles, and they're allowed to buy,

they, one may not say that some, that power is colluding with them to commit violence,

but one could say that power is definitely creating the opportunity and then looking in the other

way and not only looking the other way, but would do anything to if somebody were to get jammed

up by the law to make sure that they, they walk away.

Yeah, and leadership doesn't have to always be internal. It can be external. They couldn't even

be hidden as much as I generally think most conspiracy theories are bullshit. That doesn't mean

that people don't conspire and that some of these actions don't achieve some level of scale.

So yeah, whether or not it's explicit, I think a lot of it is a thousand or probably a billion

little nudges along the way to produce a result which functionally is the same thing.

Again, migration is war. And, you know, very little in human nature has ever changed and

we continue to be human, which, again, I think progressivism is largely a rejection of

the fundamentals of human nature.

Well, I appreciate you bringing this one up and bringing it to my attention so that we could get

out here and read it for joining me for a comment saying on it. And yeah, we'll do this again real

soon. I appreciate it and hope you feel better, right? Yeah, no problem. Take care, man. Yeah, thank you.

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