Anonymous
ID: E686DAVL
6/17/2025, 12:13:02 AM No.507644147
Right-wing nationalists who celebrate the greatness of Western civilization often don't realize they're praising the very globalism they claim to fear. The empire they idolize was globalist in its purest form—borderless extraction, centralized control, domination of distant markets, and the reshaping of foreign societies to serve a ruling core. The wealth, power, and prestige of the West were never confined to the nation-state. They were built by reaching far beyond it, imposing systems on others, and absorbing the world into one imperial order. What they call tradition is often just the afterglow of international domination.
This is the contradiction they refuse to face: they fear today's global elite while glorifying yesterday's. They rage against open borders, foreign influence, and cultural dilution—yet celebrate a legacy that thrived on those exact forces. Empire was not localist or isolationist—it was expansionist, interventionist, and globally entangled. So when they wrap themselves in flags and talk of past greatness, they are clinging to a system that operated by the same logic they now claim to resist. Their enemy isn’t new—it’s just no longer under their control.
This is the contradiction they refuse to face: they fear today's global elite while glorifying yesterday's. They rage against open borders, foreign influence, and cultural dilution—yet celebrate a legacy that thrived on those exact forces. Empire was not localist or isolationist—it was expansionist, interventionist, and globally entangled. So when they wrap themselves in flags and talk of past greatness, they are clinging to a system that operated by the same logic they now claim to resist. Their enemy isn’t new—it’s just no longer under their control.