ST7 - Multiculturalism is a weapon edition

The Assyrians weaponized this deliberately: Kings like Tiglath-Pileser III deported conquered peoples en masse, scattering them to break ethnic bonds and prevent revolts. It worked—for a while. But when their own empire cracked, the same mixing turned inward, and Assyria vanished as a people.

Persia under Cyrus tried tolerant multiculturalism—let subjects keep their customs—and built the largest empire ever. But tolerance has limits: by Alexander's conquest, internal divisions (Greek mercenaries, Babylonian revolts) had weakened it. Post-Persian Iran survived by reverting to a Persian core.

America is the modern rerun: The 1790 Naturalization Act restricted citizenship to "free white persons" to preserve the founding European stock. It held for 175 years, powering the Industrial Revolution and global dominance. Then 1965's Hart-Celler Act flipped the script: "family reunification" and endless immigration shifted the mix from 85% European to under 60% today, with projections below 50% by 2045. Elites (bankers, corporations) pushed it for growth; politicians sold it as moral progress. Now institutions are "retrofitted"—statues toppled, history rewritten, borders ignored. The pattern predicts: cohesion erodes, trust plummets, and the original republic becomes something else.