In the shadow of soaring immigration numbers and plummeting native birth rates, the West faces a stark ultimatum: reclaim its cultural vitality or fade into irrelevance. Edward Ring's August 2025 essay in American Greatness captures this peril vividly, warning that unchecked migration from high-fertility regions threatens to overwhelm Western societies. With foreign-born populations hovering at 14% in both the EU and US, and second-generation immigrants adding layers to the shift, the demographic tide is undeniable. Yet, this isn't just about numbers, it's an existential clash where Western values risk dissolution. Compounding the crisis is the emasculation of Western manhood and widespread deracination, rendering native populations ill-equipped to resist. I argue that immigration poses a profound threat, one the West's softened, identity-eroded men are powerless to confront, unless they awaken.

The statistics are unequivocal: immigration is reshaping the West at an unprecedented pace. In 2024, global international migrants hit 304 million, up from 275 million in 2020, with Western nations absorbing the bulk. The US alone hosts 50.6 million foreign-born residents, 15% of its population, while the EU sees similar influxes. Preliminary 2025 data from the OECD shows a record 6.5 million new permanent immigrants to member countries in 2023, a 10% jump from 2022. Irregular crossings into the EU dipped 25% in early 2025 to 25,000, but state fragility and conflicts promise ongoing surges.

Birth rates exacerbate the imbalance. Western fertility has cratered: the EU's 2023 total fertility rate (TFR) stood at 1.38 children per woman, far below the 2.1 replacement level. Globally, it's 2.2 in 2024, down from 5 in the 1960s, but Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East boast rates double that, fuelling population booms and migration pressures. Immigrants from these regions often have higher fertility: a 2025 UK study shows elevated rates among first- and second-generation migrants from high-origin countries. As Ring notes, this disparity means Western populations shrink while migrants multiply, potentially turning host nations into "chaotic warehouses of bickering factions."

This isn't mere replacement, it's existential. Without assimilation, cultural fragmentation looms, with migrants retaining ties to origins via technology, resisting integration. The IMF warns that low fertility in the West leads to population decline without immigration, but unchecked flows risk overwhelming societal cohesion.

Why can't the West mount a defence? Enter emasculation, the metaphorical stripping of traditional masculine traits like strength, autonomy, and assertiveness. Modern society, through feminism, consumer culture, and progressive indoctrination, has pathologised these as "toxic," leaving men adrift. Analyses trace this to post-industrial shifts: with fewer dangerous jobs requiring physical prowess, manhood's emphasis wanes. Aging men, facing health declines, grapple with lost roles, strength, independence, exacerbating identity crises.

Cultural narratives reinforce this: from ads promoting perpetual adolescence to media portraying fathers as bumbling fools, men are discouraged from responsibility. Blogs decry this as a "crisis in modern masculinity," where hegemonic scripts of dominance clash with societal demands for sensitivity, leading to resentment and withdrawal. Ring echoes this: Westerners, indoctrinated into hedonism and environmental guilt, shun family life, with birth rates reflecting emasculated priorities.

Effects ripple society-wide: lower testosterone correlates with passivity, while emasculation fosters suffering and identity loss. In facing immigration, emasculated men lack the vigour to protect borders or culture, viewing assertion as bigotry.

Compounding emasculation is deracination, the erosion of racial, cultural, and historical roots. Western education instils shame: "stolen land" narratives in the US and Australia, colonial guilt in Europe. This self-hatred deracinates, severing pride in heritage. Immigrants, meanwhile, maintain strong identities via global ties, resisting assimilation.

Deracination effects: fragmented societies, where natives apologise for existence while migrants assert theirs. It breeds apathy toward demographic shifts, viewing them as atonement. This loss of attributes traditionally associated with masculinity, ties to cultural decline, making men insecure and unable to defend values. Ring warns: without pride, populations dwindle, ceding ground.

Emasculated and deracinated, Western men can't confront the threat. Lacking manhood's drive, protection, provision, they defer to elites profiting from migration. Indoctrination quells resistance, labelling concerns "Right-wing." Yet, as fertility dips below replacement and migrants surge, the existential risk mounts.

This slide might self-correct: backlash from gurus like Jordan Peterson urges reclaiming manhood. But without addressing deracination, something he avoids discussing, and reviving heritage pride, the fight falters.

Immigration's threat is real: demographic overwhelm, cultural dissolution. Emasculation and deracination disarm the West, turning guardians into bystanders. Ring's call, marry, procreate, reject hedonism, is the antidote. Revive manhood: strong, rooted, protective. Only then can the West endure.

https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/13/hard-reality-for-the-right-wing/

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-immigration-dam-has-burst/

"It was not preached to the crowd, but nonetheless Brits have joined the dots: the link between mass migration and a spike in crime, especially sex attacks, has entered the public consciousness.

Ministry of Justice data for England and Wales shows that a quarter of rape convictions last year were of foreign nationals. They account for just a tenth of the population but up to a third of sexual assault convictions. Many more convictions — of migrants now classed as British citizens — will be hidden within native conviction numbers.

Some politicians have picked up this mantle — raising alarm about the fact that Afghans are 22 times more likely to be convicted of sexual offences than Brits, or that 40 per cent of sexual offence charges in London are tabled against foreign nationals.

But rather than report these facts, the established media has adopted a rearguard position — desperately pleading with the public to ignore the mounting evidence. As this issue continues to grow in salience, we should be concerned that traditional media outlets are about to embark on a campaign of mass obscurantism.

Take Sky News' recent "fact check" on migrant crime data, in which they looked to downplay the representation of foreign nationals in crime data. The whole thing was methodological nonsense — based on quotes that were misattributed to university academics, and advice from the ONS that was no such thing. According to the ONS, they have no record of giving Sky News any analytical "recommendation" akin to what was claimed. Corrections have been requested from impartial academics, and if Ofcom is anything more than an impotent legacy of the Blairite quangocracy then it will act.

This won't stop witless left-wing commentators citing the piece — of course it won't — and that, really, was the whole point of Sky's excursions. Unforgivably, a significant number of journalists have decided to become the media equivalent of a budget-range concealer — vainly attempting to mask the acne scars of mass migration.

For example, when BBC data journalists admit that foreign nationals are disproportionately represented in crime statistics, but then tell Nick Robinson or Amol Rajan on Radio 4 that there is no evidence of a link between mass migration and increased sexual offences, they are spreading falsehoods to the public.

Luckily, as with many facets of modern Britain, the political and media establishment — still gently drunk on the bottle of multicultural liquor they have been gulping from for twenty years — have been caught off guard on this issue. So certain were they that open borders were virtuous, that they failed to notice the tens of thousands of foreign nationals being convicted each year.

Others have not. Barnes Wallis' political descendents have unleashed a barrage of bouncing truth-bombs in recent weeks, unalterably shifting the axis of debate on this issue for the remainder of the parliament. Westminster has been flooded with the truth, and things are changing.

On Sunday, the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, announced that all foreign nationals given a custodial sentence would be eligible for deportation — a long overdue measure, and which marks a significant shift from the current rules, which only permit the removal of a migrant if they are given a 12-month sentence.

Of course, Labour lacks the operational cojones to ensure that our prisons are actually liberated of the 10,000 foreign nationals currently presiding in them. Human rights legislation, and the resistance of countries to take their own criminals back, will inevitably scupper their plans. But the soil is being richly fertilised for a future centre-right government to begin harvesting from Day One.

So the first dam has burst. And we must ensure the second is also breached — and push for measures which actually prevent foreign would-be criminals entering our country in the first place. The most obvious manifestation of this is the detention, and swift deportation, of the tens of thousands of undocumented men flooding across the channel. Posterity will view the decision to place them in hotels and HMOs unfavourably. Decisions taken by the Home Office have actively placed schoolchildren at risk.

The threat being posed to the British public, especially women and girls, means these fantasies must be scrapped

If politicians are going to insist that the current levels of immigration must continue — in the face of the facts of public opinion — then those we allow to enter must be coming from culturally compatible nations. The Home Office must construct an "immigration red list" of nations that have sky-high crime rates and are overrepresented in Britain's burgeoning illegal migrant population. Severe restrictions must be put in place, much as they were until 2020, which unashamedly recognises that not all migrants are the same.

Any sane individual can see the difference between a Swiss pensioner looking to retire with her grandchildren in Kent, and a nineteen-year old Afghan allegedly coming to work in his cousin's barber shop, or an Albanian looking to work as a rickshaw driver. Yet somehow, our visa system — under the thumb of the Equality Act — treats them the same.

It is time to grow up. The threat being posed to the British public, especially women and girls, means these fantasies must be scrapped. Our society is fraying at the edges. If we have to be a little impolite in order to reorient the boat, then so be it."