The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire

"Whatever ends up collapsing the US empire is far less likely to come from Russia or China than from the US empire itself."
Now this is perhaps the most accurate statement ever made on the subject of "end of empire".
Historians should go back to all the empires before this now disgraced empire came into effect and analyse the reasons for the gradual decline in past centuries. This one is only 75 years young but on the downhill swing at such a pace that it will lose the advantages of past empires who were able to adjust to the slower pace and not get hurt. Britain's empire has been managed over time, now in its final death throes.

I have enough confidence in the different populations in all the different countries to think that they will wake to the reasons for the lack of food, high cost of heating for families, electricity shortages, reduction in manufacturing as a result, unemployment figures like never before and deaths through created virus strains to be able to clearly see the prime mover for all those ills.
A now sad country who has a leader who needs world power to stay alive while at the same time trying to inflict his values on the rest of the world, clearly not falling into line as expected and as each week passes, seeing the USA for what it has become. An uncontrolled bully boy.
Any empire that uses sanctions against countries who do not bow to their dictates, who are prepared to kill 20 million men women and children to satisfy their lust for power, has little to recommend it and cannot, given the passing of time, command respect from any source including their own citizens. This takes time however, particularly when the political options of both political entities are so similar, so totally corrupt. To give a low priority as an example to the protection of so many killed through gun laws by allowing weapons to be purchased by 18 year olds to then go on a rampage and kill so many as we saw recently and almost in the same breath, another days later.

Pride goes before a fall.
Our nation turned itself into a subservient vassal state of the global elites and societal experimentation a long time ago. The empire was never ours to hold.
They always felt that need to destroy our republic so no example of systemic evolutionary change would be an example to others to do the same.
The end goal would be as always through centuries, destruction of our social construct, stripping our resources, our true values, our faith in humanity.
In return the idealogues with the already landed and priviledged royals, united with the new aristocracy, the corporate subservients, would together give us all promises, to save ourselves from ourselves. Isms will replace dialogue. Scientism would replace biological life. Socialist totalitarianism would replace reason.
I do not consent. By whatever means necessary, this republic cannot be destroyed from the top without the full consent of the governed. As I have said to the Executive, for he as others in my lifetime have abused the offices and have been derelict in their duties, "I will fight you." I, will not consent.

I don't buy into the universal "luv" narrative where all sins are apparently the same, and are forgivable and forgiven - usually with a wave of the hand and eyes turned heavenward. But hostility must have a legitimate, credible basis: it must be rooted in reality and have a point. The hostility directed toward Russia and China don't fit those requirements: they are simply malicious and calculated to turn back on the sources and corrode and devour them, slowly or with speed. The US and West are now in the position of harming or even destroying themselves, and are robot walking in the wrong direction. Agreed.

The US Empire Will Be Defeated By The US Empire
Caitlin Johnstone
Jun 4, 2022

Empire managers: Putin invaded Ukraine!
Public: Oh no! What should we do about it?
Empire managers: Greatly increase military spending, work to weaken Russia, and censor dissenting opinions.
Public: Wait, aren’t those things you’ve always wanted to do anyway?
Empire managers: Hush.

Russian propaganda poses a much smaller threat to the western world than the various government agendas that are being rolled out under the justification of fighting Russian propaganda.

Fuel prices are soaring in part because of an economic war the US empire willfully initiated in response to a proxy war the US empire deliberately provoked and westerners are being trained to look at their shrinking bank accounts and yell "Damn you, Putin!"

Only by massive amounts of propaganda would people consent to unprecedented acts of economic warfare which directly hurt them and benefit them in no way shape or form.

As the world slides closer to nuclear war it would be cool if Americans could take a break from a debate about gun laws that will with absolute certainty lead nowhere and seriously discuss whether they want their government waging a rapidly escalating proxy war against Russia.

The spectrum of acceptable debate on US foreign policy ranges from (A) war hawks who insist the US has never done anything wrong to (B) "progressives" who say the US is basically a good faith actor who just makes well-intentioned oopsie poopsie mistakes but should still definitely keep arming Ukraine. Position (B) is the furthest you're allowed to go away from "the US never does anything wrong" in mainstream discourse. It includes Bernie Sanders' foreign policy advisor, who smears and dismisses leftists who say the US is acting in a malignant way in Ukraine.

No voice at all is ever given to the (in my opinion correct) position that the US is a tyrannical regime whose immense body count is explained not by accidents but by the desire to dominate the world at any cost. The elimination of this position from the debate is by design.

Sure noble wars can be fought in theory and have been fought in practice. It's just that you've got swamp water for brains if you believe that's what the US is doing.

Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by the inevitable corruption and tyranny of status quo capitalism.

Whatever ends up collapsing the US empire is far less likely to come from Russia or China than from the US empire itself.

A big part of the western nervousness about China revolves around the fact that we're about to be surpassed by an ancient civilization of non-white people who are indigenous to their land and have never been truly conquered and colonized by Europeans.

If you don't respect the way China has been able to pull so many of its people out of extreme poverty, and don't get why such actions would cause such unified support for their government, it's simply because you lack an adequate understanding of the anguish of extreme poverty.

I've met some cute kids in my time but nobody's as adorable as westerners who talk about Chinese people being propagandized.

The Chinese government exerts a lot of power over its population, but it also takes responsibility for the way it uses that power. The USA's rulers exert a comparable amount of power over its population, but they never take any responsibility for what they do with it.

Can't believe Mohammed bin Salman is sullying Saudi Arabia's name by meeting with the president of the United States.

Putin should try staging a few mass beheadings and dismembering a Washington Post reporter with a bone saw to get on America's good side.

Many empire apologists aren't actually defending the empire, they're just defending against the suggestion that everything they believe about their nation, their media, their government and their world, is a lie.

The most impressive feat of engineering this century has been of the ‘social’ variety: funneling mainstream political attention into agendas which don't inconvenience the powerful in the information age where the ravages of capitalism and imperialism are right there to be seen in plain sight.

The social engineering necessary to keep politically inclined people fixated on agendas that either won't lead anywhere or which trouble the powerful in no way, even as we entered an unprecedented age of information access, is one of the most awe-inspiring human achievements in history.