Imagine for a moment, a small army: Brave, noble and highly skilled in combat. Picture this army deep behind enemy lines, much like the army of Charles XII deep in Ukraine in the Great Northern War. With its enemies closing in on each side, it has no stocked castles in which it might take rest through the winter season, each day, even without a pitched battle men are losing their hands and feet to the cold weather, starvation and dysentery. Being constantly ‘on the move’, with the view of arriving at Moscow to seize a final victory, its men are deteriorating and being lost to raw attrition.
The army of Charles of course, was felled brutally outside of Poltava by the Russian army, who in its home territory was comparably well rested, fed and had not been living in the open and exposed elements on a hard and brutal march for thousands of miles. Despite the significant battle discipline, skills and technology of the Swedes, they were killed on the fields by a numerically superior, less experienced and less disciplined Russian force well before reaching Moscow.
The proto and quasi-nationalist electoralists have just suffered a fatal blow in the last federal election for much the same reasons. No man can honestly doubt that the march to an electoral victory is long, hard and painful. Organising the various personalities and ideologies of people and volunteers into a cohesive and disciplined group is hard enough, harder yet is it to maintain them against frozen winds of the media demoralisation system, furthermore the need for constant rear-guard action against political enemies who are just as desperate as you are to take a seat and who are taking every opportunity possible to slander, discredit and disrupt your activities.
Many numbers of fringe political parties have risen and fallen over the last decade. The story is consistent; there is a moment of energy, a great burst of enthusiasm, then the grueling defeat. With this comes the permanent loss of manpower to the cause. Even if the campaigners survived the attrition of the campaign I note above, they often become so depressed after the loss that they decide all political action is a fruitless, high cost endeavor. These men, of which there has been thousands, are never seen or heard from again, they bury their heads in the sand and try to return to a quiet life of normalcy, to live on their knees and hope to survive the decline without causing a scene.
The castles well stocked with grain and security which Charles XII so desperately needed in the Ukrainian steppe are in the same way non-existent in Australia for patriotic people. Where might the political activist rest his head? satisfy his stomach and regain his strength for the next battle? The enemies of the Commonwealth have this in spades, a political activist calling for the destruction of our nation may rest his head and recharge for the next battle easily in a nepotistic job pick at a leftist university, at a media outlet or a state-funded NGO that specializes in combating extremism!
What must be borne out of this is that simply, the costs to our enemies to conduct their campaign are far easier to bear than costs to the patriot. This imbalance of logistics is why they have consistently won for decades. The only comparable infrastructure on “the right” are think tanks like the Institute of Public Affairs, which have no interest in supporting nationalism as they serve international finance and the creation in this nation of a mestizo plantation economy.
Success at the ballot box and battlefield requires perennial, fortified infrastructure. It requires the construction of fortresses and castles across the nation, metaphysical infrastructure that provides financial resources, employment, legal support, community and life satisfaction to maintain the troops. It is from these castles that Nationalists may over time sally forth into battle where it is strategically wise to do so, and where an individual battle leads to defeat, it does not lead to a complete rout of the nationalist cause and the permanent losses of manpower from which we are still recovering.
We make a plea to the young Nationalists. Do not place all your eggs in the electoral basket and hope for the best! You walk a well-trodden path! the shallow buried corpses of the last generation of electoral-focused patriots are all around you as you walk, and if only you opened your eyes you would see it.
Knowing that our cause is again in its infancy, we must conserve manpower. Who would rush the German machine gun nest for the sake of proving your courage? In the futile hope that one man may get a well placed breach? We say to you, take up the shovel and dig, Join us in the A.N.A and lock down and secure territory inch by inch to secure the future of our people. Our castle is being built to last, and it is from our fortress that we may offer to the enemy an honest battle.
M. K. Grant
National Governor
May 2025.