Agony in the mouth of a boa constrictor
Alexander Maistrovoy ——Bio and Archives--December 15, 2025
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Trump: “Most European nations, they’re, they’re decaying. They’re decaying” (interview with Politico)
Politico claims the US President is exaggerating. Really?
According to official data alone, Muslim migrants make up between 5-6% (Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Sweden) and 8-10% (Austria and France) of the population. This is a huge figure, but the reality is likely significantly worse.
The enormous number of illegal immigrants is not accounted for. Accurate data is either absent or deliberately underreported.
Back in 2001, in London, I deliberately traveled by public transport through different areas of this metropolis, and what I saw horrified me. Signs in Arabic, Urdu, Farsi; a completely oriental atmosphere against the backdrop of Victorian-era buildings (a Kafkaesque spectacle); families with black-bearded men, women in niqabs, and numerous children; groups of men here and there playing shesh-besh; the smell of Arabic coffee and oriental spices; shawarmas, kebab shops, and shashlik houses; abandoned, unkempt churches converted into shelters for the homeless and illegal immigrants; supermarkets with an infinitely “diverse” staff and equally “diverse” customers; flags of Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Somalia, and God knows what other countries; the drawn-out groans of muezzins and oriental music from the shops; mountains of garbage on the streets; women in headscarves on buses.
Fifteen years later, I visited London again, and this scene had become dominant in the city center: on Oxford Street, Piccadilly, in........
