In the boardgame RISK the goal is world domination. You achieve that by battling other players within and across continents. The best strategy is to take and hold Australia. Once secured you can build up your troops while defending the single point of access to keep your opponents at bay then attack in a methodical style and slowly expand.
This strategy doesn’t always work, but the notion of finding
an easily defendable base where you can husband resources and use it as a
launching pad to attack others is sound.
We’re actually seeing that strategy play itself in real life
competition that is anything but a game.
I’m talking of course about Islam.
Islam began in second half of the 6th century in
what is now Saudi Arabia. By the time Muhammad
died in 632 the peninsula was largely Muslim.
Over the next century Islam would grow rapidly, sweeping across north
Africa, through Spain and into France.
In 732 Islam would meet its match in the person of Charles
Martel, the de facto leader of the Franks. The Umayyad Caliphate had used its
bases in North Africa and later Spain to advance on what is today France,
behind the leadership of Abd Al-Rahman. Martel would appeal to the Pope for the
funds necessary to defend Christendom.
When the forces met near Tours, the heavily outnumbered Frankish
forces were victorious and at the end of the day the Muslim threat to
Christendom was over.
While there would be other battles as the Caliphate
retreated from France, Muslim control in western Europe would be limited to
Iberia for the next 800 years where it would remain in slow decline until its
final ouster from Granada in 1492.
Across the Mediterranean at about that same time the
Ottomans conquered the unconquerable city, Constantinople, in 1453 and by 1653
would reach the gates of Vienna.
By that point the Ottomans had control over much of south
eastern Europe stretching from Greece up to central Hungary and east to what is
now Ukraine. The Ottoman’s very much employed the Australia strategy, bringing
resources from across its well defended Empire up through Istanbul and deployed
them throughout the Balkans in preparation to support the siege. Their efforts would be thwarted by Polish
king John III Sobieski.
Much like the Battle of Tours, the assault on Vienna was
seen as a threat to Christendom and would represent the high water mark of
Muslim incursion into Europe. The
following centuries would see the Ottoman Empire slowly retreat until its
ultimate demise in the early 20th century.
Not that the Muslim world was monolithic, because it wasn’t.
There were often competing caliphates and competition within caliphates, but
the Islamic world never experienced anything resembling the kind of
balkanization that characterized Christian Europe for most of its post Roman
history. Nor was Europe the only area that Islam sought to conquer, at points
controlling all of India and much of western China and stretching south to Indonesia.
Today we live in a different world where caliphates in the
traditional sense no longer exist. Instead of having one or multiple caliphates
controlling large empires of Muslim lands, today there are over 50 countries
where Muslims
rule.
The leaders of most Muslim countries today are simply trying
to survive the chaos of their 3rd world dystopias rather than trying
to conquer the world in the traditional sense.
Sure, there are a few Muslim nations who have used the money from oil to
climb into the relatively developed world, or create a Potemkin façade of
such, but they’re a minority. No,
most are like Pakistan or Mali and often have challenges just keeping the
lights on and their populations fed.
There are however hundreds
of Islamic groups and terrorist organizations who seek to conquer the world
and bring the entire planet (particularly western civilization) into a caliphate.
Like in the game RISK, they depend on Muslim countries
for support and sending
new recruits. They are achieving results sultans could only have dreamed of
as western countries welcome millions of Muslims. Western leaders always promise
citizens the immigrants would assimilate and become productive members of their
new nations.
But
that didn’t happen. Muslims mostly congregated in Muslim areas, maintained
their traditions, flew flags of their former countries and
rallied to the cause of terrorist organizations. Indeed, many maintain allegiance
to Islam rather than their adopted countries
and commit
a disproportionate amount of crime too.
Often natives are being
pressured into changing the culture to accommodate them.
What’s the difference between 732, 1653 and 2025? Simple. In the former Christians understood
they were in a battle for their very survival and were willing to fight to
defend their way of life against powers that wanted to destroy it. They were
more than just nominally
Christian, they were actual Christians with faith, confidence and a belief
that the civilization built by Christianity deserved to be defended.
Today, none of those things apply. Western civilization is largely ruled by
globalists who believe the west is uniquely stained by the evils of slavery and
colonization and contrition requires welcoming everyone, regardless of the
country or culture from which they come. What’s worse, they tax their citizens
to pay to support these newly arrived immigrants. And citizens who complain because they liked
their country the way it was are labeled far right racists and fascists and sometimes jailed. But perhaps the single biggest difference is
that western leftists and leaders today take for granted the world they were
bequeathed. They assume that because
they enjoy freedom, prosperity, electricity, running water, etc. that they will
naturally be there forever. They have no
understanding of history and have no interest in how successful civilizations
are built, nor sustained.
The outcome of all of this will be that numerous western nations, particularly
Europe, will
be majority Muslim within a century.
But the reality is, the west will be part of the caliphate long before
the end of this century. The reason the British could control India, a nation
of 200 million people, with less than 100,000 troops (less than 1/10th
of 1% of the population) was because the cooperation of millions of Indians in
the army and the bureaucracy.
Muslims already make up far more
than that in Europe and it doesn’t take much
for the impact to be felt, particularly with pandering
politicians.
Islam is not compatible with western civilization. Freedom
of speech, religion and thought are core to western civilization. Islam opposes
all of them. But it doesn’t matter as long as the west’s globalist leaders act
as if their constituents are cogs in a machine who can be replaced by anyone
from anywhere, regardless of their culture.
In RISK, as in life, it’s the last one standing who wins. Unless
something changes, western civilization will find itself swallowed up in a
caliphate of its own making, and freedom, prosperity and actual civilization
will be but distant memories.
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