What does the crisis at Ceuta reveal about globalization, mass migration, and the deeper collapse of Western civilization?
In this overview, Mike Steger examines the political, economic, and philosophical forces behind the Ceuta border crisis. He argues that the chaos unfolding in Europe is not the result of one court ruling or one failed immigration policy, but the product of decades of globalization, deindustrialization, consumer materialism, and a system of rights detached from responsibility.
From the European Convention on Human Rights and the power of international courts to the destruction of Western manufacturing and national sovereignty, Mike explores how the modern rules-based order has weakened the ability of nations to defend their people and preserve their cultures.
The discussion then turns to the material rebuilding of civilization through energy, nuclear power, manufacturing, American technology, private credit, and international development. But economic recovery alone is not enough. Drawing on Joseph Ratzinger’s *Eschatology*, Mike argues that the survival of the West ultimately depends on restoring the immortality of the human soul, the image of God, and a moral understanding of what human beings are created to do.
Watch how mad Dr Fauci gets at Bret Baier when he starts questioning him about covid coming from a lab leak. Fauci gets visibly shaken that Baier isn't just accepting his animal origin story. "BRET, I KNOW YOU'RE A GOOD PERSON" pic.twitter.com/oth7ezszZH
One of Fauci’s most brazen lies on April 17, 2020, when he stood at the White House podium, was not even his pretense that he did not know who the Proximal Origin authors were, although that was an extraordinarily brazen lie in its own right.
It was his claim that the sequence of the Covid virus was “totally consistent” with natural evolution in bats.
That claim was not merely unsupported. It was impossible to know. No ancestral virus has ever been found, which means there is no evolutionary chain showing how SARS-CoV-2 supposedly developed in bats before reaching humans.
So even if we assume a natural origin, Fauci had no factual basis for claiming that the virus’s sequence was consistent with any known evolutionary pathway. In fact, the fraudulent Proximal Origin paper neither identifies a known ancestor of SARS-CoV-2 nor reconstructs a documented evolutionary pathway from a bat virus into SARS-CoV-2.
Fauci literally just made it all up on the fly.
Listen closely to his words in the clip below. It is remarkable, and frankly pathological, how he simply invents the claim on the spot and delivers it with such conviction, at least if you ignore the substance and focus entirely on the performance.
Looking back, it is genuinely frightening that one man could stand at the White House podium and simply make things up, while no one beyond a handful of people on Twitter challenged him.
I keep seeing claims that Fauci may be a narcissistic buffoon who got everything wrong. There may be some truth to that. But don't let it obscure the fact that he’s also a pathological liar. Here he is pretending not to know the authors of Proximal Origin.pic.twitter.com/hrZi42zRJh
“Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs … told the audience … at the 2026 Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) National Convention that the government’s response to the COVID pandemic was actually a ‘marketing campaign’ that ‘had very little to do with public health.’” pic.twitter.com/gkSxMIy55R
— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) August 1, 2026
Here’s when I knew the whole thing was BS: The former health director for the county stood next to you at daily press briefings and then would have dinner parties at her house every night with dozens of guests.
The U.S.A. is locked and loaded and ready to go against the Islamic Republic of Iran, at levels of Military Terror, Strength, and Power not seen since World War II. Despite this, we have just been asked by Iran, and other Middle Eastern Countries, to hold off any attack in that the perimeters of a deal has been agreed to. This would include the Immediate, Complete, and Total OPENING OF THE HORMUZ STRAIT, and an end to Iran’s nuclear threat. Based on this request, I have agreed, for the future benefit of the WORLD and, likewise, the survival of a successful and prosperous Iran, to cancel the attack, subject to being able to rapidly make a DEAL. The Country of Israel joins me in this commitment. Get to work, everybody, and get it DONE.
… directly: “Of course you want to move on because you were part of the problem!”
KENNEDY: “We need to protect our constitutional rights. That is the primary obligation in our country.”
BASH: “What does that mean?”
KENNEDY: “Well, during COVID, we completely dismantled our constitutional rights. We began censoring people in violation of the First Amendment.”
BASH: “You’re saying what not to do, I’m asking what to do.”
KENNEDY: “Well, that’s something to do. That is the number one priority: we protect the Constitution.”
BASH: “Forgive me, but you’re talking about rights and I’m asking about a potential public health crisis that is coming. But I do want to… let’s…”
KENNEDY: “And one of the mistakes we made last time was suppressing those rights. So people weren’t being heard. Doctors who were saying, ‘You’re doing it wrong,’ were being marginalized and vilified.”
BASH: “Again, I really want to move on…”
KENNEDY: “Yeah, of course you want to move on because you were part of the problem!”
BASH: “No! I wasn’t part of the problem!”
KENNEDY: “There was absolute press malpractice. Your job is to have a fierce skepticism toward authority, and you weren’t doing that.”
“You were beating up on people who were dissenting!”
RFK: "Can you show me one study that shows that children were protected by the covid vaccine?"
Bash: "There are studies that show because of vaccine disinformation, there could have been 200,000 lives saved."
