National suicide.

Our countries are destroying themselves. Fast.

Enter the barbarians.

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Towards the end of the 3rd Century, during the twilight of the Western Jin Dynasty, the imperial court of Emperor Wu desperately sought salvation.

Years of civil war and famine had left northern farmlands desolate and towns empty. The realm's population had plummeted during the recently ended War of the Eight Princes, which had threshed the people like ripe stalks of wheat at harvest. Drastic measures were required to return the Jin’s strength to its former glory.

Desperate to restore his people’s numbers, the Emperor opened the realm’s gates to the tribes of the “Five Barbarians”—the Xiongnu, Jie, Di, Qiang, and Xianbei—inviting these foreigners to settle within his borders. Jin officials offered land and grain to the newcomers, resources that were redistributed from the native population, believing that an influx of these hardy nomads would revive the Jin economy and help defend the northern frontier.

At first, the policy seemed to work wonders. Families in the tens of thousands streamed through the mountain passes to claim new homes under the empire’s protection.

Abandoned fields sprang back to life as settlers ploughed the soil. Border garrisons swelled with fierce warriors now serving in Jin ranks. In Luoyang, courtiers praised the Emperor’s wisdom, which had led to this new revival. Yet a few seasoned Jin ministers watched in dread, whispering that such a cure might eventually become a poison. The newcomers, they said, lacked the same morals and values of the Jin, and illustrated how this could lead to a clashing of cultures in the future—yet these warnings were brushed aside amid celebrations of renewal.

But it wouldn’t be long until this prophecy would bear rotten fruit. As the years passed, the cultural fabric of the North began to fray. In market towns, Han villagers found themselves surrounded by the unfamiliar tongues and customs of the foreign tribes. Instead of integrating, the newcomers to their own ways, showing little respect for Jin traditions. Rumours spread of settlers clashing violently with natives, of crimes unpunished and sacred sites defiled. Yet the Emperor’s court, distracted by intrigues and feuds, paid scant attention.

Eventually, rebellion ignited like wildfire as the barbarian tribal leaders sensed weakness at the empire’s heart and turned against it. Once honoured by the court, a Xiongnu chieftain crowned himself king and cast off all loyalty to Jin; others followed, as the Di seized western provinces while Jie warlords carved out domains in the east. The very forces the dynasty had once fed, clothed, gave lands to, and armed, now thundered back as avengers. What had been welcomed as a solution to the empire’s woes became an onslaught from within.

At last, the barbarians reached the gates of Luoyang, the imperial capital. The city’s defences crumbled. Invaders poured into palaces and marketplaces, cutting down all in their path. The proud capital was left a smouldering ruin. In that fiery devastation—remembered as the Disaster of Yongjia—the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed. No less, by people it willingly welcomed into its society.

The Western Jin’s well-intended gamble had backfired catastrophically. Cultural erosion, rising violence, and betrayal combined to tear the dynasty apart. Thus ends the tale of Western Jin’s downfall—a solemn warning that short-sighted decisions can consume even the mightiest of empires, in a shorter time than anyone could imagine.

We’re destroying ourselves.

I never intend to stoke tension or operate outside the realms of the factual.

Yet at the same time, I don’t believe in censoring myself when something needs to be said.

With this in mind, there will be those who will read these words who will brand me a racist, a bigot, cold-hearted, inconsiderate, or tar me with some other similar moniker.

So be it.

(*** Before you shoot the messenger, please note the comprehensive list of resources below backing up my claims in this letter).

I don’t say this lightly: Europe currently faces one of the most significant threats in its history. One that is taking us on a path to the total destabilisation of the entire continent, while destroying the future for our children, grandchildren, and beyond.

The threat? Mass migration.

To illustrate just how bad things have become, I’ll focus on one country in particular: Sweden.

During the mid-1970s, Sweden was one of the planet's safest and most prosperous nations. Declaring itself a “multicultural society,” it became a hotspot for refugees and migrants, primarily those from the Balkans, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Sweden prided itself on being one of the world’s humanitarian superpowers, taking in more refugees and asylum seekers per capita than any European nation. In some years, it welcomed them at a rate 60x higher than that of places like the U.S.

It let millions of people in, gave them homes, paid for their living expenses, education, welfare, healthcare, and safety. The cost? Sometimes close to 100 billion kroner per year, up to 7% of the nation’s annual budget, all funded by the Swedish taxpayer.

The narrative was simple: “Migration makes Sweden stronger.”

Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out that way.

Today, Sweden is a shadow of its former self.

Over the past few decades, gang violence has spiralled out of control.

Gun violence has increased by nearly 250%, marking the country as the gun capital of Europe behind Albania.

Reported r*pes and s*xual assaults have increased by nearly 50%.

And today, Sweden experiences more bombings than any other country on Earth not at war, apart from Mexico. 32 just in January alone, averaging more than one a day.

This was unheard of in Sweden a mere 30 years ago. Today, however, it’s a part of normal life.

It’s become so bad that Sweden’s prime minister has even publicly declared they’ve “lost control” of their own country.

So, what do these increases in crime have to do with migrants?

Unfortunately, the answer is simple: almost everything.

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When looking at Sweden’s general crime statistics, it would appear mass migration hasn’t had an effect. Over the past few decades, Sweden’s overall crime rate per 100,000 people has either remained about the same, or has even slightly decreased, like between 2021 and 2023.

But that doesn’t tell the entire story.

When we drill down to crimes committed by people of migrant background (specifically, people who were born in another country or who are the children of someone born outside Sweden), it paints a very different picture:

• Migrants have almost solely driven a 300% increase in bombings.

• Migrants commit 85-90% of all gun crime.

• 73% of all Sweden’s gang r*pists were born outside Europe.

• 58% of all r*pists were born abroad.

• Over 70% of all violent crime is committed by people with a migrant background.

• Men who migrated to Sweden after 15 are 7x more likely to commit s*xual assault than a native Swede.

• In cases of “stranger r*pe” where the victim doesn’t know the perpetrator, there is only a 1 in 5 chance the criminal is Swedish.

• Overall, around half of all crimes are committed by people with a migrant background, despite these people making up less than a third of the population.

I could go on, but you get the picture.

Some of these crime statistics sound almost unbelievable. But if you doubt them, feel free to go here, where I’ve compiled a set of resources and stats (mostly from Sweden’s own government and mainstream media) that back up every single one of these claims.

This phenomenon isn’t just localised to Sweden. These migrant-driven crime spikes are occurring all over Europe.

I’m not against migration.

I’m the child of a migrant. I’ve been a migrant no less than four times in my life, on three separate continents.

And no, not all migrants commit crime. Most never commit any crimes at all.

But migrants from certain parts of the world are certainly much more likely to be criminals in Europe than European natives.

For that reason, I do have a serious problem with migration when it’s being funded by the people of a country to bring in people who don’t share our culture, ideals, and values, and who are making life demonstrably less safe for our own people.

One day, I want to raise a daughter.

I want to bring her into a world where she can walk down the street in Australia, or Europe, or elsewhere in the West, and experience a similar level of safety and security that I knew as a child.

But the simple fact is, this wouldn’t be the case if she were born today in Sweden, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, the Netherlands, or many other places in Europe. And that would almost solely be the case because of our current wilful ignorance of what mass migration is doing to our cultures and societies.

I will admit that Sweden’s intentions were pure. The West’s intentions as a whole regarding migration and asylum seekers have been pure.

Societies which opened their arms, borders, and taxpayers' wallets at the peak of their peace and prosperity—but that did so without guarding our foundations.

It’s time to admit our migration experiment has failed.

Migration has not made us stronger.

It has not made us safer.

And it has not made us more prosperous.

By almost every calculable metric, mass migration has made us poorer, less safe, and less cohesive as a society. In many places, it’s leading to the destruction of everything our ancestors built, something that many of them—including my grandparents and great-grandparents—fought and died for.

It’s time to admit we’ve welcomed in those demonstrably antithetical to our society. Something all of us, without fail, are directly funding with our high taxes.

Is this a lesson we’ll learn before our societies face the same fate of the Western Jin of 1,800 years ago?

I hope so.

Leon.
Founder, Abundantia.

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