The Anglo Union: A Federation of Our Cousins

“Why should we not form a secret society with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilized world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making of the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire. What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is possible.” - Cecil Rhodes (1877)

To your typical red-blooded flag-waving American conservative, the idea of seeking closer ties with countries such as the UK, Australia, or, heaven forbid, Canada, seems anathema. Apparently, the last few years of pandemic restrictions imposed by these countries on their people, however indefensible, negates the last few centuries of shared history we have with our cousin nations. And that’s before the egregious fact that four out of the six native English-speaking countries of the world drive on the left side of the road. How dare they?!?!

And yet, who else could America rely on for companionship in times of darkness? Who else could we most reliably depend on other than the countries who speak the same language as we do, share the same approaches towards political and economic organization as we do, and share the same foundational document and the values it iterates as we do? Who but the other five nations in this world that share our Anglo-Saxon values and heritage can we rely upon to the bitter end?

The six nations of the Anglosphere (America, Canada, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) share many geopolitical interests by virtue of our shared endowments and values. And in the age of civilization states, these shared endowments and values will make for an unstoppable force on the world stage.

For one, a hypothetical Anglo Union would be by far the largest country in the world, about one and a half times the size of Russia. Within this vast realm of two continent’s worth of land lies more navigable waterways than the rest of the world combined within the Greater Mississippi drainage basin and intercoastal waterway alone. The Greater Midwest, the largest single continuous track of arable land in the world, so happens to be overlaid on top of this wondrous waterway. As a unit, the Anglosphere is a net exporter of just about every conceivable natural resource needed to sustain industrial civilization. As a unit, the Anglosphere accounts for the majority of the world’s food exports. In fact, should the Anglosphere decide to take itself out of the global marketplace, the rest of the world would starve.

In separation, the similarly structured economies of these six cousin nations would tend them towards competition with each other. But when part of the same economic union, these economies would be able to achieve far greater economies of scale and collaboration than they could ever dream of alone, America included. No matter how petty the differences some ultra-regionalists try to point out and over exaggerate, the fact of the matter is that in all matters of substance, we are very much the same for the most part. Why then would we eschew closer cooperation with each other, especially when our co-civilizations on the Continent and our one true rival on the far side of the Eurasian landmass are doing the opposite, and to their great benefit?

While he comes at it from a subversive perspective in his book One Billion Americans, Matthew Yglesias is spot on in his principle that quantity can often be a quality in itself. Indeed, even if the dire demographic predictions for China do play out, they will still boast hundreds of millions more people than America will, and they will still be a more unified society by a country mile. Fortunately, the Anglosphere contains much room for the more fecund among us to continue to expand and tame the wilderness of North America and the Antipodes.

But in order for this promise to be fulfilled, we would need to be a civilization state of a billion Anglos, confident in their identity and destiny. A billion united Anglo Union citizens who are simultaneously internally cooperative and externally competitive would likely be the greatest civilizational force in recorded human history.

If several million settlers could close the frontier of North America’s interior in just a few short decades with wagons and revolvers, imagine what could be accomplished by a billion Anglos with the technology of the information age and beyond? As a quick aside, any Anglicized Northwest Europeans and plenty of other Europeans in the four settler countries are effectively Anglos even if they lack a drop of English heritage in their veins.

This concludes the series on the three civilization state solution for the West. This idea is admittedly an unorthodox one, especially during the current political zeitgeist. And yet, it is radically different ideas that will be needed in order to forge a successful path forward for the West.

You see, the West and indeed all of humanity are sailing into truly uncharted waters in many ways. The world ex-Africa no longer produces enough offspring to fully inherit the global estate. Our collective intelligence is decreasing on account of smarter people calculating their way out of procreating, all the while building an economy requiring even bigger brains to run smoothly. We are so interconnected that many thinkers see the entirety of humanity as part of one global civilization that will completely unravel should a single tiny domino start to fall.

Should the winter of civilization be allowed to play out this time around, the dark age to follow will make the one that followed the Bronze Age collapse look like a Renaissance. There will be no part of the world where the civilizational lights are still on. At least, this is a very real possibility. In order to prevent this from happening, or at the very least try, many brave men will have to lock arms together and work in unison to keep humanity from falling into the abyss. And as you all know, only the West has the capability and moral gumption to do this. Let us not disappoint.