On official patriotism, and the attack on Mexican drug cartels

This seems like a good time to write about something which comes up from time to time.
There are a couple of things people say which either deliberately or accidentally helps an enemy to defeat us.

One of them is, “we lost” or, “we lost already”, which is tantamount to, “it’s too late!” (really meaning that there’s no point in doing or risking anything to fight back)…

There is a reason militaries care about morale. Like the Hockey video Johnny Posted, how people view themselves and their cause goes a long way to how hard they work to try and win.

So I want to address this issue on 2 levels. The first is that life is not static. While a person may take comfort in the idea of a win, or even a loss, as once it is decided that one has lost, they secretly take comfort in feeling like they have no more responsibility to actually do or risk anything anymore. This of course is an illusion as the loss typically will exact a toll on both effort and wealth and often much much more than that, as in the case of any state that was ever defeated by an Islamic effort or a communist one.

The second is the idea of what constitutes a loss.

In a real world sense, there is no permanence. Wars are a way of deciding things for a while. But short of extinction of a people, there is no permanent win. And if the issue is one of ideas, then there is no extinction short of a perfect memory hole, as Orwell defines it, and even then if it is an idea, that idea can form within the enemy camp and corrupt the unity of that system as well. They would just think it’s original if there is no prior records of it.

For example, we delivered a decisive victory over the Nazis in 1945, but it clearly is making a massive resurgence now, even if it is a minor variation of the theme. But even reverence for the authentic Nazis is making a comeback thanks to agents like Tucker Carlson and others who have a lot of influence.

The Cold War victory was so short lived one is tempted to call it a loss given the state of Western Europe, Canada and the anglosphere overall shy of the US since the 2024 election.

So while there may not be a win or lose as people use the terms, there is however, the degree of difficulty required to win. The analogy we use mostly is the idea of a person washing dishes who cuts a finger.

If they go and rinse the cut in clean water right away, maybe use an alcohol wipe and put a bandaid on, they will likely forget ever having cut it in a day or so.

If they ignore it and it gets infected, they will have to use a poultice or maybe take antibiotics to clean up the infection.

If they ignore the infection they may get necrosis of the finger and have to have it amputated. The cost, as we can see, keeps growing the longer you choose not to deal with a problem.

If they ignore the necrosis, it becomes an arm and so, and if you wait until the infection is elected the Mayor of New York….

And this will continue. In the analogy of course eventually the patient dies. That is certainly a loss for that individual. But those like minded may take a lesson from him and go wash the finger when it happens to them.

In other words, there is an escalated cost for fighting back as you delay. Which is why communist states such as Canada, Australia and Great Britain go to such lengths to criminalize any effort to raise awareness of the problem that needs to be fought. Islamophobia is becoming an actual crime, but has been a defacto crime for some time, with unofficial state agents like ANTIFA making sure anyone who opposed the growing influence of Islam felt threatened or intimidated.

This has allowed Islamic influence to grow to the point where any real push back will be extremely costly. And that was the point.

The longer you wait to solve a problem, the more draconian the solution must, therefore, be. And so it is with Iran, Communism, Islam, China, and drug cartels. President Trump decided that the cost benefit of taking out the Cartels at this time was still worth it. And as it is in part an existential crisis for the West, he made the right call.

The Cartels are doing unspeakable horrors as a result. This is predictable. But it is still cheaper in the long run than doing nothing. Like losing the necrotic finger to save a hand. But in this case, if done properly, the finger can grow back to restore a healthy society in Mexico and elsewhere.

People may howl at what criminals are doing in Mexico as a result of US actions to defeat the cartels. But this is classic misappropriation, or even dialectic assignation of blame. We see that constantly from the left. The con of “he made me do that by trying to stop me from doing that” rhetorical trick we get from Muslims and Leftists alike who object to our attempts to stop them from obliterating and dominating us.

Anything we do to try and stop them from trying to destroy us, becomes additional justification to destroy us.

So yes, the attack on the cartels will lead to a brief (hopefully) set of terrorist attacks across Mexico which will do harm. Some of it is extraordinarily horrific, such as throwing grenades into grocery stores. But if we compare that to the deaths and destruction of quality of living from their products for many years now across the Western world, even Canadian inner cities, the cost is stunningly small. So small that CNN and CBC and other enemy propaganda outlets will be able to find a victim of Cartel violence somewhere in Mexico and do a 12 part documentary series on them till they are fully George Floyd and have murals all across Mamdani’s New York, while the millions of victims of the drugs they make and import are ignored.

Had this problem been addressed earlier, just to pick an arbitrary date, say before Obama/Holder’s program to give weapons to the cartels via “Fast and Furious”, the chances are the blow back would be less. Either way this had to happen, and it is great that it did. Let’s hope there is real policy changes and serious enforcement that stops all agencies who are bringing in deadly and addictive drugs to the people of Western cultures that end the practice and punish the perps.

Manufacturing, importing, and pushing these drugs is an act of war. Seeing it that way is awareness. Not hyperbole.

Take a trip to many inner cities and look around. Look at the wasted lives and manpower and costs to sustain it. In Canada, the Trudeau government legalized a lot of these drugs and in some provinces, all of them. In Ottawa, drugs that are still illegal, like psilocybin mushrooms have store fronts on main streets operating in the open, despite being an illegal substance!

Going back to Johnny U’s posted video about the hockey game last night, Canada Vs.USA may make one contemplate the nature of patriotism in Canada, as the video is such an excellent display of authentic patriotism and shows its value in terms of the win.

Canada appears to have created a dialectical form of patriotism. The Carney, ‘Elbows Up’ patriotism which is actually an intersectional line of attack on patriotism itself. Which is remarkably consistent with so many lines of operation within Canada, where the name of the thing is actually an attack on the thing named, not an attempt to improve it. Stats, Canada, Health Canada, (each of which have been dealt with in previous posts) Multiculturalism (the effort to destroy all cultures using one against the other) feminism, an attack against women and the family disguised as empowering women. ‘Trans-affirming care’, spay and neuter clinics for kids disguised as affirming rights for ‘trans-people’. ‘Reproductive health’ for killing babies before they are born etc. etc. ad nauseam.

Elbows up patriotism was created to foment hatred against Trump.

This is because Trump is actually restoring the United States as an actual republic. And that will not be tolerated by the COMINTERN. It also gives Carney energy to continue to destroy the relationship with the US and make Canada into part of the new COMINTERN along with the Western European nations and Australia which are succumbing to authoritarian government.

Elbows up is an intersectional line of attack against any form of nationalism, disguised as patriotism.

Which is why you see the exact same people and organizations parading around with Canadian flags and a sanctimonious expression who did everything they could to destroy genuine patriots during the Freedom Convoy and for that matter, the entire set of years of Covid measures. Canadian official patriotism is about chest-puffing support of open borders, Native land claims, taking vast amounts of experimental gene therapy injections, never questioning narratives, and listening to CBC. Canadian official patriotism is about celebrating the deracination of Canada. Not what made it great, but what destroys it.

The current use of Patriotism, the ‘Elbows Up’ variety, is what makes it dialectical patriotism. The Freedom Convoy patriots were about actual Canadian values,. laws and rights as they have always been in Canada, and which were removed by the Carney/Trudeau regime.

And if you misread that as ‘diabolical patriotism’, you are forgiven in advance.

Source: https://vladtepesblog.com/2026/02/23/on-official-patriotism-and-the-attack-on-mexican-drug-cartels/