Just when you thought European leaders couldn't get any more reckless with their national security, a new proposal is making waves that would make even the most progressive globalist do a double-take. After years of watching their military recruitment numbers plummet and their 'refugee' populations swell with able-bodied young men who prefer welfare checks to paychecks, some European officials are reportedly considering the unthinkable: filling their declining military ranks with Muslim migrants.
Let's take a step back and remember how we got here. In 2015, Germany's Angela Merkel made what historians will likely record as one of the most catastrophic decisions in modern European history. She flung open Germany's borders to millions of so-called 'refugees,' supposedly to address workforce shortages and demographic decline.
The results? An unmitigated disaster. Instead of the ambitious, hardworking individuals Merkel promised would revitalize the German economy, Europe got waves of military-aged men who quickly discovered that living off government benefits was far easier than actually contributing to society. Crime rates soared, assimilation failed, and the native German work ethic that built one of the world's strongest economies was nowhere to be found among the new arrivals.
From Welfare to Warfare?
Now, facing military recruitment crises across the continent, some European leaders are apparently considering whether these same individuals who couldn't be bothered to work civilian jobs might somehow be motivated to serve in their host countries' armed forces. What could possibly go wrong with handing weapons and military training to people who have shown little loyalty to Western values or work ethic?
This isn't just poor policy—it's national security suicide. The same young men who refused honest work are now being considered for positions that require absolute loyalty, discipline, and commitment to defending the very societies they've largely rejected.
Meanwhile, President Trump's America First policies continue to demonstrate how real border security and merit-based immigration actually work. As Europe contemplates arming their migration crisis, America is deporting illegal aliens and rebuilding our military with patriots who actually want to serve.
The question isn't whether this European scheme will backfire—it's how spectacularly it will fail, and whether there will be anything left of European civilization to save when it does.