If NATO is concerned about the rise of "ethnonationalist groups" throughout the West, it would be well advised to consider the underlying cause. This is, very obviously, the relentless hammering of mass immigration being inflicted upon NATO member states.
From a military standpoint mass immigration is a dire threat. It undermines social cohesion; it alienates native populations from their governments; it destroys the legitimacy of national governments; worst of all, it destroys national morale, making native populations deeply reluctant to volunteer for military service. Why fight for a country that hates its citizens? Why fight for a country that whose government is deliberately invading itself?
If NATO was a serious military organization it would be treating the immigration policy of its member countries as a DEFCON 1 level threat. NATO is concerned about Russia; how the hell does NATO's high command expect to fight Russia with populations who despise their governments?
Instead, we get undergrad term paper drivel like this, which quotes the opinion of an Antifa blogger as an authoritative source, and argues that the Great Replacement is conspiracy theory disinformation, not because low-fertility Western populations aren't being replaced, but because it's craaaaaazy to suggest that replacement is deliberate government policy.
Meanwhile, in Canada, the Century Initiative pushes for mass immigration to increase Canada's population to 100 million by 2100. The Century Initiative is a lobbying group started by Dominic Barton, a former McKinsey executive and former Canadian ambassador to China. That's about as elite as it comes. Canadian immigration policy is on track to meet the Century Initiative goal. Furthermore, Canadian immigration policy is by definition elite policy. The Canadian government obviously wants to import so many third worlders that Canadians become a minority. Is the purpose to render Canadians a minority? Maybe not, but that's the inevitable outcome, and Canadian elites obviously don't care if that happens. Which part of this is a conspiracy theory, exactly?
It's below NATO's dignity to engage in these virtue signaling, hair-splitting leftist frame games. Does NATO think that this kind of narrative engineering is going to make anti-immigration sentiment disappear? Maybe NATO thinks the answer is more Internet censorship. "Wow, now that NATO has shut down the Internet, I've realized that all these Indians pouring into my country aren't really here, it's all a Russian psyop. I will now go die fighting Russia because I'm really mad at Russia for convincing me that there are immigrants in my country." Is that how NATO thinks this goes?
Again, a serious military treaty organization would be treating mass immigration as the existential threat that it is, not bending itself into pretzels to avoid giving the nice female colonels the sads. If NATO can't even do that, it's beyond ridiculous to imagine that it can prosecute a successful military campaign.
A Canadian ethnonationalist group is echoing the rise of its European counterparts. In this article, Dorigen Gray traces how disinformation is fueling calls for “remigration,” and what the rise of political groups championing these narratives could mean for NATO.