A screenshot of the viral claim. (Source: Instagram/Screenshot/Modified by Logically Facts)
The book has no mention of such plans. The quote does not appear in Barnett’s original book.
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Context
An image circulating on Twitter and Instagram headlined “Jews explain why they bring millions of Muslims and African immigrants to Europe,” followed by a purported quote from military and geopolitical strategist Thomas Barnett,
The image claims Barnett wrote in his 2004 book “The Pentagon’s New Map” that:
“The ultimate goal is the forcible-coordination of all countries of the world: That shall be achieved by the mixing of the races with the goal to create a light brown race in Europe. For that reason 1.5 million immigrants from the third world shall migrate to Europe every year. The result would be a population with an average IQ of 90 that is so dumb to grasp anything but intelligent enough to work. The European countries would never again be competitors in the struggle for global domination and a multiple millennia-old culture would be destroyed. Irrational people who will fight against this ‘mingling of races’, and put up any resistance against the global world order, should be killed – Thomas P.M. Barnett, Jew, director of the Israeli Military consultancy “Wikistrat” in his book ‘The Pentagon’s New Map’, 2004.
However, the claim is false, and this quote does not appear in Barnett’s book. The claim endorses talking points of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory. The image originated on the controversial meme forum 4chan and has been circulating for several years.
In Fact
The only part of the quote found in both the book and the meme is the yearly 1.5 million immigrants figure, which Barnett believes that Europe needs to support its aging population.
Barnett’s ideas for a geopolitical strategy to integrate parts of the world with the U.S. were originally published in Esquire. He labeled this the “Non-integrating gap, “and suggested merging this into “The Functioning Core.” Barnett’s strategy proposes “shrinking the gap” by integrating these parts of the world into the global economy by exporting security and ensuing peacekeeping missions to provide stability, facilitate trade, and increase foreign aid. The book does not advocate for anything akin to “great replacement” conspiracy theories, or any other population replacement theories.
Logically Facts contacted Barnett for a comment, who stated that the quote was a “complete fabrication.”
The map proposed by Thomas P.M. Barnett in his book “The Pentagons new map”. (Source: Thomas P.M. Barnett/Screenshot/Edited by Logically Facts)
The claim touches on key components of the Great Replacement and other population replacement theories, such as Jews facilitating high immigration to Europe to create a mixed race and destroy European culture. Such theories are unsubstantiated and have been used to justify several terrorist attacks by far-right and extremist actors, such as Utøya in Norway in 2011, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2019, and Buffalo, New York in 2022. In recent years, the conspiracy theory has reached further into the mainstream political sphere in both the U.S. and Europe and gained traction ahead of the general election in the U.K. Logically Facts has debunked the theory and adjacent topics extensively.
The verdict
The quoted text attributed to Thomas P.M. Barnett is not present in his book “The Pentagon’s New Map.” The claim is false and aims to disseminate the far-right conspiracy theory of The Great Replacement.
