The Last Valley
Study the Thirty-Year's War to see Europe's potential future
Anyone who has not watched "The Last Valley," starring Omar Shariff and a young Michael Caine, a vastly underrated film from 1971, should not miss it.
The link below is to the first 12 minutes of the film on YouTube.
Here is another link to the complete film in higher resolution. It was recently uploaded and may not last long on YouTube.
This level of 30-Years-War savagery may be coming back to Europe. If you think Protestants vs Catholics got pretty nasty and ugly in the early 1600s, wait until you see millions of Mohammedans fully mobilized in all-out jihad. Just replace the horses and muskets in the film with motorbikes, truck-mounted heavy machine guns and AK-47s. (The way that Syria was recently overrun). I wrote a Substack piece titled Motorbike Warfare on this subject last year.
During the Thirty-Year’s War (1618-1648), it’s estimated that about a third of all the Europeans living in the conflict zones perished. This was mostly from famine and disease spawned by the breakdown in normal patterns of living.
It may be worse in modern times, when untold millions of people subsist on food imported from hundreds or thousands of miles away, or even from across oceans. These supply chains will be broken during a civil and/or religious war in Europe.
Mohammedans in Europe in mass jihad mode will make Michael Caine's mercenary group seem like angels. I believe this will all kick off when "remigration" becomes a realistic expectation across Europe. Mohammedans will not just be taken to airplanes and depart peacefully. Once they occupy a city and build mosques, this territory becomes, in their minds, part of the global Islamic “Umma,” and once it is, it can never be given back to infidels without a fight. (It took the Spanish nearly 800 years to expel the Moors.) And anybody who does not understand that Muslims have been stockpiling arms across Europe for the fight they know is coming is extremely naive.
The below article is from 2016. Imagine how many more weapons have been smuggled into Europe and cached since then, especially when so many arms intended for Ukraine have been sold on the black market.
What is easier to sneak into an European country: 2,000 fighting-age Muslim men, or one twenty-foot cargo container that can be unloaded from a truck in a matter of minutes? How many of these containers are hidden across Europe? We’ll find out soon enough, and all the European Traitor Class politicians will plead that they had no idea this might happen.
The recent Al Qaida/ISIS takeover of Syria was accomplished largely this way, with Chinese motorbikes stealthily imported in shipping containers. Their mass rollout surprised the world, and this was a key factor in their rapid conquest of Syria.
Europeans must not be surprised when this happens with tens of thousands of AK-47s and RPGs suddenly appearing in jihadist hands right across the continent.
Some will say, "But Matt, the Muslims in Europe are still greatly outnumbered." This may be true, but it misses a key point. If you drop a half-dozen ferocious African wild dogs into a kennel full of tame house pets, it will be a slaughter at the least.
Mohammedans who have recently left war zones where terrorism is a way of life will be ready to go to extreme violence immediately after they are handed their AK-47s, while European men will be dazed in confusion, unorganized and unarmed during at least the opening phases of the conflict. And there may not be a second phase to the conflict: witness Syria.
The millions of military-age men who have traveled partway around the world to arrive in Europe are also more used to living in harsh conditions without clean running water, sanitation, or supermarkets. They will be able to survive conditions that will cause Europeans to go into shock. Low IQ men with very high testosterone, driven and united by religious fanaticism, will win over higher IQ men men with low testosterone during the initial stages of conflict in Europe.
So the way I see it, the European Traitor Class has mass-imported the enemy army for a conflict that may turn out to be as brutal as the Thirty-Year’s War. Or worse. Think of Bataclan- and Mumbai-level violence occurring daily all across the continent. It’s almost inconceivable today, given our normalcy bias and belief that the current mostly peaceful status quo will never be broken. It was also inconceivable in Central Europe in 1610, or in former Yugoslavia during the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in Sarajevo. Less than a decade after the Olympiad, Sarajevo was home to “Sniper Alley.”
Please watch “The Last Valley,” especially if you think that you will be able to ride out any coming conflict because you live in what you think is a safe rural retreat. When cities implode after supply chains break down, hungry marauders will be searching out precisely those well-supplied places which have up to that point escaped detection. These bandit gangs will be the hard core of the hard core who have survived the mayhem in and around the cities, and have learned to adapt and even to thrive in the new environment.
Watch The Last Valley to see this human dynamic in action.
I’m still hoping that Europeans can escape the extreme peril they have been thrust into by their Traitor Class, but as the saying goes, hope is not a plan. Harden your hearts, so that you will not be paralyzed by shock as this drama unfolds at high speed. Be ready to meet sudden violence with immediate counter-violence, so that your family and community can make it through the hard times that may be ahead.
Don’t be like the soft and cuddly poodles in the picture above. It’s time to become a fierce Doberman instead.
Bracken—Out
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Haven't seen the movie but you don't have to go all the way back to the 30 Years War. The Bolshevik revolution also saw organized bands coming out of the cities to pillage the countryside. Bolsheviks owned the cities but had little footprint in the rural areas where the food was. Country people were fairly well armed because when the Russian army dissolved in 1917, the mostly peasant soldiers simply went home and took their Mosins with them. But the Bolshevik bands were organized and would simply overwhelm small rural communities one at a time.
Matt, I believe it's over due another of your great books release. So much material to write about in your special way making it real.
Amazing so many people like an Ostrich with their heads buried, not paying attention.
God Speed...