In a previous essay, I wrote why “Many Western Governments Won’t Survive.” Now I will address why many Western nations will prevail, despite the destructive policies of their governments. Who will save the West? Citizen-patriots.
Most Western governments have already proved themselves incapable of defending the West. They cannot or will not defend their sovereign borders from foreign invaders. They will not defend Christian principles and prefer to mock (and even prosecute) followers of Christ. They will not defend their cultures, historic symbols, traditions, or beliefs. They will not defend private property or the fruits of a person’s labor and instead use taxes and regulations to steal more and more from citizens.
They will not defend free speech or the right to self-defense. They will not defend the West’s rich intellectual inheritance accumulated over millennia and stretching from Jerusalem and Athens to Northern Europe and the Americas. They will not defend the West’s way of life.
Western governments have failed to protect the West, or worse, they have intentionally sabotaged the West through many decades of institutional duplicity, psychological warfare, moral decay, venality, public contempt, foreign allegiance, and self-hatred. As Western governments have led the charge to destroy Western nations, they can hardly be expected to save us from the very carnage that they have unleashed.
Instead, the coming Western renaissance will arise with the people.
We have seen flickers of this incendiary social revolution since the turn of the century.
After the 9/11 Islamic terror attacks on the United States, a patriotic fervor united Americans who promised each other, “Never again.” Many of us thought the West was finally prepared to defend its civilization from the scourge of Islamism.
Rather than securing Western civilization from its enemies, the U.S. government gave us an expansive domestic surveillance system that eliminated Americans’ privacy, twenty years of war filled with ephemeral successes, misguided “democracy-building” missions in parts of the world hostile to our presence, and an influx of Muslim immigrants into our hometowns.
President Bush and Congress spied on us with the USA PATRIOT Act while calling Islam a “religion of peace.” President Obama mocked American exceptionalism during a global apology tour and preposterously insisted that Muslims were instrumental to America’s founding.
Eventually, the same members of Congress who overwhelmingly voted for war in Asia and the Middle East repudiated American patriots who risked (or lost) their lives fighting Islamic warriors “over there” so that we wouldn’t have to fight them “over here.” In another instance of bitter irony, American veterans of those wars are often called “Islamophobes” and monitored in the U.S. as “potential domestic terrorists.”
New York City has a Muslim mayor from Uganda. Minnesota has a Muslim congresswoman from Somalia who might not even be a naturalized American citizen. Michigan has another Muslim congresswoman who hates America and loves Hamas. And Michigan might elect as senator a man with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Both the number of mosques and the number of Muslims in the United States have doubled since 9/11.
After the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor, American patriots volunteered to defend Western civilization from Islamic conquest. Infuriatingly, the U.S. government imported Islamic civilization into America while patriots were too busy fighting elsewhere to defend the Bill of Rights and their countrymen at home. The sting of that betrayal will never dissipate.
Patriots in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and across continental Europe have felt that same sting of betrayal. No Western government ever asked its citizens for permission to cease enforcing national borders so that it could flood ancient homelands with foreigners.
The 2016 Brexit referendum in the U.K. was an after-the-fact vote on, among other things, Britain’s European Union-mandated open borders policies. After British patriots voted for the government to get out of the E.U. and secure the kingdom from further invasion, the British Establishment effectively ignored the outcome and flooded the U.K. with even more foreign nationals.
Aside from a few Central European countries whose people and leaders have doggedly resisted the E.U.’s attempts to replace native citizens with foreigners, Europe’s demographic composition has substantially changed this century. From 2015 to 2024, over six million foreigners settled in Germany, increasing its foreign-born population from 13% to 21%. During that time, the U.K. added over four million foreigners. Malta’s foreign-born population jumped from 9% to 32%.
A new documentary called Replacing Europe traces how European governments and Western NGOs use taxpayer funds to destroy once sovereign nation states with mass migration. As one critic of the E.U. Establishment puts it, “Bureaucracies in Brussels regulate everything except the influx that is changing Europe’s demographics permanently.”
The end result was entirely predictable: 87% of criminal suspects in Germany are foreigners; 74% of sex crime suspects in Spain’s Basque region are foreigners; foreigners are responsible for 87% of thefts, 61% of sexual violence, and 60% of robberies on Paris public transport; 47% of violent criminals in Bavaria are foreigners; over 80% of North African asylum seekers in Switzerland are criminal suspects; and after covering up the atrocities of Muslim rape gangs who raped over a quarter of a million British girls over the last two decades, British authorities now hand out a booklet to invaders informing them that raping women and children is illegal in the U.K. and may negatively affect their fake asylum claims.
An evil has fallen upon all of Europe, and Western governments that have opened their nations to an invasion from violent foreigners are to blame. Western governments that aided and abetted illegal immigration into their countries are criminally liable and morally culpable for every rape, robbery, murder, and terrorist attack that foreigners carry out in Western lands.
Western citizens who refuse to let their families and friends be raped or murdered are not “racists,” “bigots,” “Nazis,” or “white supremacists.” On the contrary, Western governments are guilty of crimes against humanity for actively assisting foreigners who intend to rape and murder Western citizens.
After enduring their governments’ crimes against humanity for the entirety of this century, Western citizens are becoming increasingly more vocal that these mass migration attacks on Western populations must finally end. Some refer to this growing social revolution as a “Great Awakening.” Western governments denounce it as “populism,” as if “democracy” were worth praising only when an elite bureaucratic oligarchy forces its decisions upon everyone else.
In France, those who wish to defend their nation look to the National Rally. In Germany, patriots vote for members of the Alternative for Deutschland. In the United Kingdom, Brits are joining Reform UK and Restore Britain.
In the United States, MAGA voters have taken over and remade the Republican Party. Similar parties exist in Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and every other Western nation whose people wish to survive the next few decades.
The foreign invasion of Spain’s Ceuta jolted more Westerners awake. The blazing fires that foreigners have started across France have shone like emergency flares across the West. In Britain (where one new invader is granted settlement or citizenship every minute), MP Rupert Lowe’s devastating “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” has shocked the conscience of every Westerner not complicit in the Muslim-perpetrated, State-sanctioned mass rape of several hundred thousand girls.
There is a growing understanding across the West: Governments cannot protect us when they are the very entities putting us in danger. Only citizen-patriots can save the West.
As more Westerners reach this conclusion, the stigma of being called a “racist,” “bigot,” “Christian nationalist,” or “white supremacist” disappears. People who fight for a righteous cause do not care if an evil government calls them names. We must announce this “Great Awakening” loudly and clearly: Patriots, rise. The war for Western civilization is here.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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