Anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past five years knows perfectly well at this point that the one and only real political issue of concern to the entire Western world right now is immigration. Everything else is basically a secondary problem at this point.

Why?

Because, as perhaps the finest military historian alive today reminds us, mass migration is simply war by another means.

The reason is very simple. Migrants bring over their own sexual mores, cultural baggage, blood feuds, stupidities, hygiene habits (or, far too often, significant lack thereof), nonsense, and psychosocial issues with them. And when they come over en masse, they inevitably end up creating communities of their own that remind them as strongly as possible of the home that they left behind.

This is a natural human reaction to living in a foreign land. When you are in alien territory, you cling instinctively to those things that remind you the most strongly of the home that you left behind. This is true of all people, at all times, in all countries. That is why it is often said, for instance, that desi Indians living in America try to be more Indian, and more traditionalist, than their counterparts back in the old country – to the considerable detriment of their new surroundings, as anyone who has ever been to Edison, NJ, or Jackson Heights, NY, or Birmingham in the UK, can attest.

The result is self-segregation and ostracism, which usually lasts for several generations. As far as I can tell, it takes up to five generations before the descendants of the original immigrants are so thoroughly acculturated and adjusted as to be basically indistinguishable from the original inhabitants of the land.

This by definition means that there is no such thing as “magic dirt” – a fact that I have been pointing out for years, even as I myself lived for many years as a non-resident alien in the USA in the (now vain) hope of getting a green card and eventually settling down there. It takes a long time for immigrants to come over and adjust to the needs of the locals, and this has to be handled carefully and delicately to avoid serious problems generations down the line.

The thing is, though, that immigration is not a problem that is unique to the Western world.

No matter where you go in the world, every country has immigrants who have come from some other shithole to make a better life. Indeed, no matter how much a particular country sucks, no matter how low it is on the Shitholistan Scale, there is always someplace worse that would happily send its people over to it – unless of course the country in question happens to be, oh, say, Somalia, Syria, or Afghanistan.

I will give you two examples to show you why mass migration has always been a global problem with local consequences.

The first example comes from India.

If you spend any decent amount of time in Calcutta – or “Kolkata”, as it was rather irritatingly renamed, to get rid of the “stigma” created by the old British name – then you will know that the city was essentially dying on its feet for many years. In the last ten years or so, though, the city has undergone something of a rebirth.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a shitty place to live and work. The infrastructure is piss-poor, the hygiene levels are atrocious, the pollution is awful, the traffic jams are absurd, and the weather is just a disgustingly hot, humid, and foetid rotting cherry atop a crap-sundae of misery.

But there is actual life in the city after decades of malfeasance, corruption, and literally Communist policies that caused industries and businesses to flee the state of West Bengal for less categorically insane places.

Nonetheless, the city has some serious problems – not the least of which is the fact that it has literally no serious industry or business sector with which to sustain itself, except for the medical business.

It is not an exaggeration to say that many of the very best doctors, nurses, and medical care professionals in India come from Calcutta. It is one of the very few cities in India where medical care is cheap, high-quality (by Indian standards, I mean), readily available, and easily accessible – and that is in large measure due to the fact that, of all of the major Indian cities, Calcutta is the one with the most reliable power supply. The lack of significant heavy industry anywhere else in the city, coupled with the notoriously poor work ethic of West Bengal in general, makes it possible for hospitals and residential complexes to enjoy almost uninterrupted power – a rarity in India.

Who are the people taking the greatest advantage of this thriving medical care industry?

Bangladeshis from across the border of what used to be the mostly-Muslim part of Bengal, back in the days of the British Raj.

They come into Calcutta whether invited or not, and illegal border crossings are extremely common – with the tacit assistance of both the city and state governments. They permit all of that illegal immigration because the state’s economy benefits enormously from (relatively) wealthy Bangladeshis coming over to spend their money on medical care in Calcutta, which they cannot get access to back in Dhaka or other major Bangladeshi cities.

This massive illegal immigration problem seriously grates against the inhabitants of the city itself, at least those who are not direct beneficiaries of the spending from those illegals – and even then, many of those doctors and nurses have a thorough dislike for the people from Bangladesh who come in. The system is flooded with poor people from Bangladesh who speak a very weird (to Indian ears) form of Bengali, and who are obviously in absolutely no position to pay for the treatment that they get – and yet the overworked and underpaid doctors and nurses in the government system have no choice but to serve them.

That illegal immigration problem has gotten so bad, in fact, that the ruling Trinamool Congress Party in West Bengal suffered a serious shellacking in the recent Indian general elections that wrapped up in May.

The second example comes from Russia.

I have spent a fair amount of time over the past calendar year in Moscow. During my time there in summer and winter, I have seen firsthand the infiltration of the city’s working classes by what the Russians call “those bloody Caucasians” – that is the mildest epithet that they use – which is to say, people from the Caucasus republics.

The independent nations and Russian territories that make up this region include: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Krasnodarskiy-Krai, Stavropolskiy-Krai, and a few others. Without exception, ethnic Russians from Moscow view people from these territories with deep suspicion and distrust.

The reasons for this are straightforward enough.

First, there are tens of thousands of them, if not millions, scattered throughout Russia’s largest cities. They make up the majority of the fast food workers, cleaning staff, restaurant cooks and waiters, taxi drivers, street cleaners, grocery store cleaners, road workers, and assorted other working-class professions – jobs that Russians may well view as beneath them in terms of status, and yet are necessary to provide some sort of livelihood for their people.

Second, the behavioural traits of people from the Caucasus republics are very different from those of native Russians. The Russians themselves will tell you that the Caucasians are much more outgoing, friendly, assertive, and masculine in many ways than their own people. I have personally seen this to be true. My interactions with Azerbaijanis, for instance, have almost universally been friendly bro-fests where they listen to my atrociously bad Russian and laugh delightedly at the fact that I’m even trying to speak with them.

I remember with particular amusement a chap in the local gym who was amazed at how I could deadlift 430lbs with relative ease while weighing 10Kg less than him – though his epic beard more than made up for any perceived deficiencies in his strength.

Third, and most importantly, the Caucasians do not mix with the Russians, due to mutual antagonism on both sides. The Russians don’t like the Caucasians because of their aggressive amiability and inability to speak decent Russian – if you know how to listen to good Russian (and I do), and you then listen to an Armenian or Azerbaijani or especially a Chechnyan try to speak the language, you will instantly spot the difference in accent.

And Caucasians, who are largely Muslim, especially those from Azerbaijan, Dagestan, and Chechnya, have a strong dislike and distaste for the Russian way of life, in particular for the Russian fondness for strong alcohol and pork.

The tensions between the two groups are building. I have spoken personally with a number of Muscovites who have made it clear that they don’t want to live in Russia because they believe that their country is being overrun by people from the Caucasus – who are not Russian, will never be Russian, and have no interest in becoming Russian.

If these sound familiar to my American and European readers, then that is because these problems that you face in the West are universal.

Every single country that does not exercise very tight control over its borders and does not have some sort of geographical barrier to entry is suffering from the same problem. Almost every single one represents a less shitty way of life for poor and desperate people.

And almost every single one has succumbed to the temptation to bring in large numbers of immigrants, legal or otherwise, to fill holes in their labour forces, under the misguided and foolish belief that this state of affairs is purely temporary.

The only exceptions are to be found among highly advanced, ageing, geographically isolated nations like Japan – and absolute shitholes that have been destroyed by socialism and/or war, like Venezuela and Cuba in the former case, and Syria and Afghanistan in the latter case.

One way or another, immigration is a problem that every nation faces and will always face. Immigration always brings serious problems with it, no matter how it is managed or who is brought in. The native peoples will always resent the arrival of vast numbers of unqualified and uneducated low-class folks who take their jobs, consume their living spaces, eat their food, drink their water, and – worst of all – bring their very different ways of life with them.

This is true always and everywhere, and there are always going to be some seriously negative consequences from letting such people in.

The people of West Bengal are famously intelligent, intellectual, cultured, and welcoming to outsiders – and they have a common language with the people from Bangladesh who come over the border. Never mind that each side claims that their version of Bengali is “authentic” – they share significant common bonds and ties of history, culture, religion, race, and language.

And yet they cannot stand the fact that “those damned Bangladeshis” are coming over the border to swamp their already overburdened, and quite shitty, infrastructure.

The people of Russia are stoic, tough, and aloof upon first meeting – but once you get to know them, you will discover that they are warmly affectionate, with deep souls. Many of them have severe problems caused by the devastating legacy of the Satanic Hellspawn that is Communism, but they are a quietly stolid people with a good sense of humour and a welcoming attitude toward polite strangers who make an effort to mix with them.

And yet they cannot tolerate the fact that their cities are teeming with Caucasians from the poorer Asian republics, who look and act and sound very little like Russians and who make it clear that they do not want to be Russian.

These are the kinds of stresses that break apart empires and destroy nations.

If even these countries cannot manage this problem very well – despite having far more in common with the immigrants coming in through their borders than Americans do with the hordes of Dirt Worlders clamouring to get in – what possible chance do you think that Western nations have with Central Americans, Middle Easterners, Africans, and Asians who all want in?