But please, that map was a joke, right?

“Anyway, look at that map. Russia vs. Muslims vs. USA. It’s like porn to these people.”

Porn isn’t even intended to be realistic.

That map, though, is a real gem. (I particularly like the puns, the confusing inclusion of certain rivers, the reunification of Yugoslavia minus the Banat Protectorate, and the fact it manages to get Eurabia and the Russian menace into one map.) Some of the lines are probably shaky because its creator was getting excited just by drawing it.

This post by Baron Bodissey seems to be more relevant than the one linked at Sadly, No!:

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2005/09/russia-and-caliphate-sign-non.html

A telling comment by the creator:

“It’s my future, and I’ll have imams in Iceland if I wanna…”

They don’t–they cut off part of western Thuringia with a suspiciously shaky line.

It’s worse than using a Cold War-era map: they’re _hand-drawing_ a fascimile. Not even cut-and-paste! I tell you.

Of course, a shrinking population can be compensated for with immigration from still growing areas, but that is badly hampered by yahoo attitudes such as of the Eurabia crowd. I really don’t see the seriously negative population growth rates in countries such as Japan or Italy as something to crow about.

(And yes, Subsaharan African growth rates are not a good thing - why can’t everyone stick to a sensible 2.5 kids per couple, dagnabit? (:)} )

Bruce

As sovergin democratic states, the opposition in European nations could not be dismissed as something as simple as the general public thinking the war was stupid. The US government only supports democercy in other naitons when it matchs thier own agenda. Hence, ‘Europeans oppossed the the war in Iraq because they are scared of the Arabs!’. I guess the fact that Europeans have a far better idea of what WAR really is about means nothing to the armchair generals.

The stupider thing is that the rather naff narrative has taken on a life of its own and is being reproduced…feeding into a growing anti-European and isolationist agenda among some in the US. It makes sense in a way, the cold war is over so they need a new enemy….