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Chrissy Houlahan, a US Congresswoman whose parents were Jewish refugees from Ukraine who is very eager to have young Americans registered for the draft. (Image source: Wikipedia)
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The House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that will require all men aged 18-26 to be automatically registered for conscription into the military. The bill was spearheaded by Representative Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania whose parents came to the United States as Jewish refugees from Lviv, Ukraine in the aftermath of the Second World War. The bill doesn’t officially change government policy, as all male American citizens aged 18-26 were required to register for the draft even before this new bill was passed, and by itself may be unremarkable or merely symbolic, but the circumstances surrounding it may suggest that the US is planning to escalate the situation in Ukraine, the Middle East, and/or Taiwan.
When I was young, the draft was thought to be something of an antiquity. It was something in the past, something that had happened a long time ago, something that was never going to be repeated. After all, we were living at the end of history. Thoughts of grade school bring back memories of a recently-graduated, blonde liberal-arts teacher whose class I was in as a youngling. It was her first teaching job, and we were a classroom full of rowdy white children, bouncing off the walls. She explained to us, while proudly sporting her V-Day t-shirt, that all wars had ended. It was progress, you see. First humanity had brought an end to wars. Next on the list was violence against women. Everyone believed it. Everyone but me. Even as a young child, it seemed impossible to me to fundamentally reinvent human nature and erase conflict from the world. I tried to correct her, but the other kids shut me down first.
“You can’t argue with the teacher. You really think you know everything!”
It may be too soon to say it, but I really do believe the “end of history” era in America will be thought of as a nostalgic oasis — a time when people actually believed that human conflict had been resolved permanently through global trade and liberalism, and a time of stark contrast to current-day America. Of course, 9/11 changed all of that. Before 9/11, American power seemed infinite and God-like. After, America seemed very mortal, indeed. As my classmates and I stared at the television as it displayed vivid images of passenger planes crashing into the great American landmark of the Twin Towers, that same teacher told us that it would be our generation who would go to war over it. Originally optimistic, she now seemed upset. “This won’t end peacefully,” she told us. An era was over.
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There was a cloud that hung over us like fog, yet the sky was clear. The Sun was at its peak. I drew some controversy with my skepticism toward white liberals. People who I believe had become accustomed to a certain standard of living in the early 1990s as a result of globalization now see neoliberal causes as a way to maintain this standard — despite inflation, total wealth inequality, and poor wage growth, as well as policies such as mass immigration. But I’ll say this: I would define most people who define themselves as liberal as moderates with liberal or conservative leanings. I would compare such people favorably to my liberal-arts teacher. Actual white liberals seem akin to regime hardliners to me. But I’ll leave that there.
As the War on Terror dragged on, interest in it waned. It became the “forever war.” This effect has carried on even now, as people today rarely pay attention to world events even given the dramatic events unfolding oversees. Even as Russia sends potentially nuclear-armed submarines to port in Cuba. And yet a short trip to a franchise gym located anywhere in America tells a different story: What war? It all feels like a familiar movie with completely different actors. Things are similar, yet everything is different. America is yet again on the road to war, but this time nobody cares. Instead of righteous indignation, instead of a yearning to collectively assert that America should exist, no one seems to care. Instead of religiously following wall-to-wall media coverage, Americans largely pretend that it doesn’t exist and hope that it will soon pass them by. Spiritually, America doesn’t feel to be “at war” at all.
This is not to mention the practical problems with the draft. At that same diverse gym, you’ll find tons of blacks who stick together, talking loudly, ignoring the others. Tons of Hispanics who stick together, heads down and focused. And tons of whites who likewise stick together, talking only to themselves, living in their own world. It’s as if there is an invisible wall between them. The different ethnic groups stick to conversations mostly among themselves while avoiding as much contact as possible, keeping their eyes down as they relocate. The experience will give you the very strong sensation that these people don’t like being stuck in the same room together and that they all feel a little uncomfortable. It left me with the impression that the American concept of “professionalism,” something that I always believed to be a little unnatural, was maybe the only thing seriously keeping America afloat.
It’s hard to imagine this diverse group working together to achieve much of anything, let alone waging war. Sure, you can draft them, give them guns, and send them to fight. But they have no real loyalty to each other. They also have no belief in what they’re fighting for, and no sense of common destiny. They’re as likely to bully and tango with other out-groupers as they are to fight the Russians, the Chinese, the Arabs, or whoever. When push came to shove, I can’t say I’d expect them to fight all that hard, and I’d anticipate a large number of surrenders and retreats. That’s not even mentioning the massive production problems that America would have and which would plague the regime for the duration of the war, given that it has shipped the bulk of its production capabilities to China — an adversary and rival. The only real chance America would have is therefore to play dirty.
Thus, America has the power to draft you, but can you really call it a national military if the US involuntarily forces large numbers of distinct, diverse peoples onto boats and trains, locking them in together, and then hands them all a weapon when they exit, ordering them to charge some fixed enemy defenses? It would be a scene similar to the movie Enemy at the Gates:
Globalist #1: The one with the rifle shoots!
Globalist #2: [handing out rifles] One out of two gets a rifle.
Globalist #1: The one without, follows him! When the one with the rifle gets killed, the one who is following picks up the rifle and shoots!
Guarding the rear would of course be fellows such as Brittney Griner and the blonde girl with two moms from the US Army recruiting advertisement, armed with machine guns and ordered to shoot any retreating subversives and counter-revolutionaries. How else could you practically deal with the retreating mass of humanity that is bound to emerge? Moreover, who could blame them? Ours is not the historical homeland of Mexicans. Blacks have no racial interest in the outcome of such a war. And whites are told every day that they have no place anymore, let alone a country to call their own. To win, the regime would have to instill total fear in its draftees. It will have to be a literal slave army, fighting for international liberalism and guided by human rights, waged by the same people our regime is currently replacing via mass immigration and “humanitarian efforts.”
A draft may seem like a far-fetched idea at present, but a lot may become possible when the regime begins to get desperate — and when they suggest “bringing back the draft,” we should not assume they are bluffing. Current events likewise suggest that the regime is serious. One such event is a suspect announcement earlier this month that the Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) is being officially labeled a terrorist organization by the US State Department. Sweden is awash in terrorism directed at the indigenous Swedes, none of it at the behest of Swedish nationalists. I don’t know any of the NRM’s members personally, but from what I can tell, it’s largely a protest organization with big dreams. Is the regime just lashing out, or is this part of a larger, strategic move to quell Right-wing dissent before a larger war breaks out? Could America lean on its vassal states to fight for it? Possibly, but that’s not usually how vassal politics works — and so far, I haven’t seen any evidence to suggest that the European Union’s member states are willing to fight this next world war without American involvement, especially given that any war involving Russia today will also likely involve China and Iran.
The other thing that caught my attention was the surprising result of Mexico’s recent presidential election, in which Claudia Sheinbaum was victorious. The American press has been way too friendly toward her given that she has been described as a “Leftist populist” in the era of the Gaza flood. I’m guessing she’s a fairly typical Washington, DC-style neoliberal — someone who will unquestioningly take orders from America. Someone who might shut the border down in an instant using the Mexican army — or perhaps cartel-linked militiamen — in case, say, a giant war breaks out and a flood of draft-dodgers heads south. She would unironically build a wall and have America pay for it.
Of course, this is all speculation at the moment, but there does appear to be a kind of logic to recent events — and it seems entirely possible that the American government might not be willing to simply go gently into the good night.
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Nicely said. The beauty of Rich People Liberalism for Rich White Liberals is that they can live a 99% White Nationalist lifestyle while externalizing the costs of ‘multiculturalism’ and their other luxury beliefs onto the working class, especially the White working class.
I think the author’s point about ‘professionalism’ is an important one. It’s very important to the regime that ‘professionalism’ include obsequiousness to incompetent non-Whites. Which, ultimately, will bring about the death of ‘the professions’.
I think if there were a major US war and draft, that would lead to open rebellion. At least a very strong anti Zionist third party would rapidly form and overthrow the old order. The elites realize this—they won’t risk it.
That would have happened back in the 2000s IF there had been a draft, but most people didn’t care bc it didn’t affect themselves.
I agree that a draft may seem unlikely or even unwise, and I guess it’s more of a thought experiment than anything, but let me ask you this. In 1965, when the now infamous Heart-Cellar immigration act was passed. The actual bill allowed for immigration from all over the world, yet politicians claimed it would not affect the demographic makeup of the U.S. People didn’t oppose the bill because people felt it was highly unlikely to amount to much. Wouldn’t we have been better off taking the bill at its’ word: that it intended to import immigrants from all over the world, even if it seem far-fetched? And if that’s true, shouldn’t we put greater faith in this bill as well, ie that the regime could seriously be considering a draft. In other words, isn’t what they’re doing more important than what they’re saying? Then if you assume that they are considering the draft, how would they implement it? Of course, as I said earlier its more of a thought experiment than anything.
I think this article is really pointing out the incredible leadership of George W. Bush. Remember how shortly after the dust settled, Pat Tillman became a Ranger and America’s warriors headed off to fight the GWOT what ol’ Dubya with the phony Texas accent masking his Kennebunkport accent said?
The role of American citizens in this existential clash of civilizations he said was to relax. Go to some ballgames and order some extra hot dogs. Go to Disneyland and take the kids and just go about our merry way. Of course, while we did that, our great young white men would take the fight to the enemy on their territory. We would fight them over there so we didn’t have to fight them here.
Not even 20 years later the Somali flag flies over Minnesota. Entire Michigan towns are run by Muslims. Third generation Polish shitlibs are besides themselves that their kindness in welcoming the Muslims is repaid with the daily Muslim calls to prayer and the Imam’s vespers that cement the supremacy of anti-liberal Muslim customs and law in the new colonies. It was all down without firing a shot. HIAS and other charities held out the welcome mat.
I would say that ol’ Dubya’s words ring hollow, but they were filled with the characteristic perfidy of those who told him what to tell us to do. The white pill from this article is that the groups are keeping themselves separate. I think our guys should withdraw and form their own gym, where before and after workouts and organized tournaments they resurrect our literature and teach each other our heritage. Imagine what will happen when they learn of how Cortez and his men had the will and means to burn their ships behind them. Imagine them watching those clips of the towers falling, Dubya’s exhortations to self-indulgence without any sacrifice and then the info rolls on the demographic replacement that took place in just their lifetimes as the call to prayer goes out over the minarets in the town that used to be their birth rite.
Imagine the rhymes that will ring forth from their deeds as they begin to bring about the return of history.
Nice idea. It would take a lot of convincing. I find it impossible to do.
Serious question: when will salt of the earth Americans stop serving in this evil system voluntarily?
It’s important to remember when the military whines about recruiting woes, it means they aren’t experiencing continual growth not that they don’t have enough people…
Q) Serious question: when will salt of the earth Americans stop serving in this evil system voluntarily?
A) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQunC9jniqw
Why bother to join the military? The Canadian military is 16,000 recruits short, out of a regular force of 72,000! When signers learn that the “trades” training in the military is NOT recognized by the private sector, is the Minister of Defence crazy? For example, if you sign up for an electrician mate, after you leave the navy/air force, your “qualifications” are not accepted by the Provincial Apprenticeship Board! An electrician in the navy is NOT an electrician!
The British army is low on manpower as well.
I don’t think this amounts to a hill of beans. Young men already have to register for the Draft.
But if they are going to make men register for the Draft, I can’t see why women don’t have to as well. Girls don’t make the best Grunts, but plenty of women did dangerous things in the Third Reich during the war to help protect their homeland.
It all reminds me of those halcyon days when I was just old enough to vote, and it came to pass that a Georgia peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter got a law passed to have me go to the Post Office and register for the Draft.
Yeah, that was going to scare the Iranians into giving back about 52 American hostages that they had taken from the embassy in Teheran and held for over 400 days. I think bombs would have been better but that’s just me.
Even my cousin ─ who was the Presidential peace candidate, Sen. George McGovern’s DNC Chair in 1972 ─ thought Mr. Peanut was a “paper tiger.”
In any case, I never actually did Register. But some time later I got a letter from Selective Service that said something to the effect, “Hello Comrade Sergeant, we wish to inform you that being in the Army does not excuse you from having to register with Selective Service.”
I did so and eventually used the opportunity to take out a few student loans my Senior year of college. You can’t avail yourself of student aid if you are male and you do not register for the Draft. The school loans were ill-advised, however. I didn’t take out a whole lot, but those “guaranteed” student loans took forever to pay back.
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If war breaks out, let’s give Chrissy Houlihan an M16, and she gets to take point. Same thing for any neocons who con us into war again.
If it needs to the military will switch its campaign, drop the rainbow anus stuff temporarily and start appealing to white values, traditions and so on.
As for these symbolic bills America passes all the time, they should be stopped in the interests of clarity and for these processes meaning anything at all, but as long they can be used by lobbyists, power merchants, Jews and so on they will remain.
The NRM…I think this just another example of America trying to crush Europe under a flood of brown shit. And I don’t think it’s 100% Jewish actually. It’s actually to stop Europe ever being a serious rival to America. Anything that stands in the way of that is ‘terrorism’.
She may have blonde hair and blue eyes, but I could tell straight away.
We’re not on the brink of war, we are in two of them. We are losing a war in the Ukraine while failing to stop a land-based blockade in the Suez, which is part of the latest war between the Jews and the Arabs.
The question is will these wars be deliberately widened? My reading of history suggests that they likely will.
The corrupt ruling classes of the West are failing, and it appears that a multicultural global noticing event is going on with regard to the Jews. Trump lives, and traitors in the FBI and DOJ are said to be planning their escape in the event he is elected. The Tories are facing possible extinction next week. Macron has opened the door for the daughter of Jean Marie Le Pen. In Across-the-Rhine Germania, the economy has been wrecked by the war in the Ukraine, but the traffic light coalition is more concerned about drunks singing “Auslander Raus”.
The go-to for rulers in rough times is typically some combination of internal terror (which is already going on in the US, albeit softly) and foreign war. If I were them, I would try to steal the election again and if that fails provoke a wider war to hand Trump a posioned chalice.
I think this would be madness, but what other move do they have?
What we need to be thinking about is how to respond.
Don’t forget that we are being invaded by illegal migrants at the Mexican border.
Sgt Pedantry,
I agree with your assessment. Might you have a speculation as to how “Americans” will respond, especially White Americans?
One of my Cuckservative, highly educated brother’s has a 20 year-old son. I mentioned this change in the draft to him and his response to an upcoming war had a hint of disbelief in his response, as if I’m a loon.
If a large percentage of Whites still don’t believe in the Great Replacement or even know about it, won’t they similarly be a bit surprised that Americans are required to go to war? Said brother stated recently to me, “This is the best time to be alive.”
So many alternative realities illustrating the various ways that humans deal with pending doom. A huge swath lean into the “ostrich coping strategy.”
There is an air of unreality surrounding this entire affair. Like Europe in July 1914. Sleepwalking into a global war. Question: “Where is the antiwar movement?”
During the run up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, there were international mass protests against the anticipated US-Coalition invasion of Iraq. Tens of thousands of people in the streets. “No war for oil!” OK, on 19 March 2003 the war commenced anyway and ended a month later with US forces rolling into Baghdad.
Yet today in 2024 with a major war being fought in Ukraine, with the military draft on the table, with NATO personnel clandestinely operating against Russia, with open talk of the employment of nuclear weapons … No tens of thousands of people in the streets. No catchy antiwar slogans. Not even a fellow traveler demanding nuclear disarmament.
What gives?
Has the antiwar movement since the end of World War II always been a fraud, an astro-turfed front activated only when needed by hostile elites (domestic or foreign)?
Are the activists who once might have formed the cadres for an antiwar movement now employed by regime NGOs and marching along with the program?
Has the technocratic information system become so pervasive that it has excluded even the intellectual conception of resistance to the current thing?
“It’s called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea.”
Yes, that’s really interesting why neither Russians nor Ukrainians protest against this war (US/UK vs. China war by proxy), where hundreds of thousands on both sides died, and where the ethnical replacement is going in high volumes in Russia and it is planned, but still not done in Ukraine, waiting for the end of hostilities.
Maybe that’s because your assumptions about the war are all wrong.
The Ukrainians are dying for British interests, and the Russians for Chinese interests. The propaganda, Jewish in UA and Armenian in RU, lies about “patriotism” to both of the peoples, but neither Ukraine is ruled by Ukrainians, nor Russia is ruled by Russians.
I’ve referenced the book “Civil War Two” by Thomas Chitum more than once. One of his predictions about a possible collapse or civil unrest in this scenario is the likelihood of people abandoning the military to side with members of their own race. This would be the outcome of Balkanization.
Thank you, Mr. Wills, especially for linking to the disgusting Army recruiting video. I had no idea things have actually become so flagrantly anti-White male. Best evidence yet that it is no longer your daddy’s Army. Your idea that dodgers of a future draft will escape to Mexico rather than to Canada somehow makes sense,
I’ve thought for a while that NRM was the closest European equivalent to the National Alliance. NA has frequently featured NRM as a search for it attests, like here: “Race – Not Country” at nationalvanguard.org. However, we have respected its aloofness to associate too closely with American organizations.
The fact that Sweden and Finland are EU members (and Norway has applied) — pledging to “guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities” — will queer the Nordic region’s sovereignty going forward as well as NRM’s strategy. The fact that earlier this month “our” Jew-run State Department has designated NRM a terrorist organization shows where the U.S stands and indicates things to come for domestic racial separatist organizations.
I rarely watch podcasts and never participate in social media but was alerted by an Alliance member to a recent NRM podcast wherein either the host or the guest was saying, “Whites need a new religion.” I didn’t watch it because it was over two hours long, but instead viewed over half of another long NRM podcast that featured Warren Balogh that I found interesting as he explained why his U.S.-based alt-right NJP (National Justice Party) had failed. Warren is an impressive advocate, but I was entirely turned off when the shades-wearing NRM host declared that “some of his best friends are Black” — hardly words representing the primacy of race. Ugh!
Eurasia has won the 21st Century Imperial Wars while ZOG is being shut out
I went on a Eurail pass vacation in Oct. 1983. Unlimited first class railway travel in Europe outside the Russian zone. In Vienna I saw the statute of the Red Army Rapist. Joseph Stalin cut a deal with the Austrian government that the Russians would leave Austria if the Austrians admitted that they started “The Great Patriotic War”, paid small reparations and putin their constitution that they would remain neutral and not join the proposed NATO. When I was there on leave from my stint in a Lance nuclear missile battalion 2d Btn 42d Field Artillery (Lance).
In 1952 and 1953 that great humanitarian Joseph Stalin wrote a letter to Chancellor Adenaur offering to let the Germans rejoin in one country in return for the same deal made to Austria. Admit they started the war, pay an indemnity and never tear down the Russian war memorial. Adenauer, like Zelensky refused the offer so Germqny remained divided until 1991. The deal with Gorby was no epansion of NATO and taking out the Lance and Pershing 1 theater missiles but by 1985 I was out of the Army as I only signed on for two years from 1981-83.
So the Cold War like all of ZOGs Wars was altogether a scam and unnecessary. Now ZOG is like an aging bully who will get its ass whupped if it starts too much trouble while the rest of Asia and the Global South are uniting to fight the senile degenerate Mighty Evil Emnpire.
Looks like ZOG is losing both the wars it started, both in Khazaristan on the Dnieper and Khazaristan on the Jordan. With the loss of the petro-ZOGbux as a reserve currency and Russia/China/Iran/North Korea in alliance means a closed circular system in Asia where there is enough food, energy, and technology to take care of the allied population while shutting out ZOG and EuroZOG.
The Satanic Clown World is being shut out while the former Western ZOG rots.
Hail Victory!!!
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