“Missing the forest for the trees” is an apt metaphor if we take a look at most commentary describing the past twenty years or so. This period has been remarkable in the number of genuinely tectonic changes the international system has undergone. It all began during what I think of as the “Kristallnacht of international law,” 30 August September 1995, when the Empire attacked the Bosnian-Serbs in a direct and total violation of all the most fundamental principles of international law.
Then there was 9/11, which gave the Neocons the “right” (or so they claimed) to threaten, attack, bomb, kill, maim, kidnap, assassinate, torture, blackmail and otherwise mistreat any person, group or nation on the planet simply because “we are the indispensable nation” and “you either are with the terrorists or with us“.
During these same years, we saw Europe become a third-rate US colony incapable of defending even fundamental European geopolitical interests while the US became a third-rate colony of Israel equally incapable of defending even fundamental US geopolitical interests. Most interestingly looking back, while the US and the EU were collapsing under the weight of their own mistakes, Russia and China were clearly on the ascend; Russia mostly in military terms (see here and here) and China mostly economically.
Most crucially, Russia and China gradually agreed to become symbionts which, I would argue, is even stronger and more meaningful than if these two countries were united by some kind of formal alliance: alliances can be broken (especially when a western nation is involved), but symbiotic relationships usually last forever (well, nothing lasts forever, of course, but when a lifespan is measured in decades, it is the functional equivalent of “forever”, at least in geostrategic analytical terms). The Chinese have now developed an official, special, and unique expression to characterize that relationship with Russia. They speak of a “Strategic, comprehensive partnership of coordination for the new era.”
This is the AngloZionists’ worst nightmare, and their legacy ziomedia goes to great lengths to conceal the fact that Russia and China are, for all practical purposes, strategic allies. They also try hard to convince the Russian people that China is a threat to Russia (using bogus arguments, but never-mind that). It won’t work, while some Russians have fears about China, the Kremlin knows the truth of the matter and will continue to deepen Russia’s symbiotic relationship with China further. Not only that, it now appears that Iran is gradually being let in to this alliance. We have the most official confirmation possible of that fact in words spoken by General Patrushev in Israel after his meeting with US and Israeli officials: “Iran has always been and remains our ally and partner.”
I could go on listing various signs of the collapse of the AngloZionist Empire along with signs that a new, parallel, international world order is in the process of being built before our eyes. I have done that many times in the past, and I will not repeat it all here (those interested can click here and here). I will submit that the AngloZionists have reached a terminal stage of decay in which the question of “if” is replaced by “when.” But even more interesting would be to look at the “what”: what does the collapse of the AngloZionist Empire really mean?
I rarely see this issue discussed and when it is, it is usually to provide all sorts of reassurances that the Empire will not really collapse, that it is too powerful, too rich and too big to fail and that the current political crises in the US and Europe will simply result in a reactive transformation of the Empire once the specific problems plaguing it have been addressed. That kind of delusional nonsense is entirely out of touch with reality. And the reality of what is taking place before our eyes is much, much more dramatic and seminal than just fixing a few problems here and there and merrily keep going on.
One of the factors which lures us into a sense of complacency is that we have seen so many other empires in history collapse only to be replaced pretty quickly by some other, that we can’t even imagine that what is taking place right now is a much more dramatic phenomenon: the passage into gradual irrelevance of an entire civilization!
But first, let’s define our terms. For all the self-aggrandizing nonsense taught in western schools, Western civilization does not have its roots in ancient Rome or, even less so, in ancient Greece. The reality is that the Western civilization was born from the Middle-Ages in general and, especially, the 11th century which, not coincidentally, saw the following succession of moves by the Papacy:
- 1054: Rome separates itself from the rest of the Christian world in the so-called Great Schism
- 1075: Rome adopts the so-called Papal Dictation
- 1095: Rome launches the First Crusade
These three closely related events are of absolutely crucial importance to the history of the West. The first step the West needed was to free itself from the influence and authority of the rest of the Christian world. Once the ties between Rome and the Christian world were severed, it was only logical for Rome to decree that the Pope now has the most extravagant super-powers no other bishop before him had ever dared contemplate. Finally, this new autonomy and desire for absolute control over our planet resulted in what could be called “the first European imperialist war”: the First Crusade.
To put it succinctly: the 11th century Franks were the real progenitors of modern “Western” Europe and the 11th century marked the first imperialist “foreign war” (to use a modern term). The name of the Empire of the Franks has changed over the centuries, but not its nature, essence, or purpose. Today the true heirs of the Franks are the AngloZionists (for a truly superb discussion of the Frankish role in desotrying the true, ancient, Christian Roman civilization of the West, see here).
Over the next 900 years or more, many different empires replaced the Frankish Papacy, and most European countries had their “moment of glory” with colonies overseas and some kind of ideology which was, by definition and axiomatically, declared the only good (or even “the only Christian”) one, whereas the rest of the planet was living in uncivilized and generally terrible conditions which could only be mitigated by those who have always believed that they, their religion, their culture or their nation had some kind of messianic role in history (call it “manifest destiny” or “White man’s burden” or being a Kulturträger in quest of a richly deserved Lebensraum): the West Europeans.
It looks like most European nations had a try at being an empire and at imperialist wars. Even such modern mini-states like Holland, Portugal or Austria once were feared imperial powers. And each time one European Empire fell, there was always another one to take its place.
But today?
Who do you think could create an empire powerful enough to fill the void resulting from the collapse of the AngloZionist Empire?
The canonical answer is “China.” And I think that this is nonsense.
Empires cannot only trade. Trade alone is simply not enough to remain a viable empire. Empires also need military force, and not just any military force, but the kind of military force which makes resistance futile. The truth is that NO modern country has anywhere near the capabilities needed to replace the US in the role of World Hegemon: not even uniting the Russian and Chinese militaries would achieve that result since these two countries do not have:
1) a worldwide network of bases (which the US have, between 700-1000 depending on how you count)
2) a major strategic air-lift and sea-lift power projection capability
3) a network of so-called “allies” (colonial puppets, really) which will assist in any deployment of military force
But even more crucial is this: China and Russia have no desire whatsoever to become an empire again. These two countries have finally understood the eternal truth, which is that empires are like parasites who feed on the body which hosts them. Yes, not only are all empires always and inherently evil, but a good case can be made that the first victims of imperialism are always the nations which “host the empire” so to speak. Oh sure, the Chinese and the Russians want their countries to be truly free, powerful and sovereign, and they understand that this is only possible when you have a military which can deter an attack, but neither China nor Russia have any interests in policing the planet or imposing some regime change on other countries. All they really want is to be safe from the US, that’s it.
This new reality is particularly visible in the Middle-East where countries like the United States, Israel or Saudi Arabia (this is the so-called “Axis of Kindness”) are currently only capable of deploying a military capable of massacring civilians or destroy the infrastructure of a country, but which cannot be used effectively against the two real regional powers with a modern military: Iran and Turkey.
But the most revealing litmus test was the US attempt to bully Venezuela back into submission. For all the fire and brimstone threats coming out of DC, the entire “Bolton plan(s?)” for Venezuela has/have resulted in a truly embarrassing failure: if the Sole “Hyperpower” on the planet cannot even overpower a tremendously weakened country right in its backyard, a country undergoing a major crisis, then indeed the US military should stick to the invasion of small countries like Monaco, Micronesia or maybe the Vatican (assuming the Swiss guard will not want to take a shot at the armed reps of the “indispensable nation”). The fact is that an increasing number of medium-sized “average” countries are now gradually acquiring the means to resist a US attack.
So if the writing is on the wall for the AngloZionist Empire, and if no country can replace the US as imperial world hegemon, what does that mean?
It means the following: 1000 years of European imperialism is coming to an end!
This time around, neither Spain nor the UK nor Austria will take the place of the US and try to become a world hegemon. In fact, there is not a single European nation which has a military even remotely capable of engaging the kind of “colony pacification” operations needed to keep your colonies in a suitable state of despair and terror.
The French had their very last hurray in Algeria, the UK in the Falklands, Spain can’t even get Gibraltar back, and Holland has no real navy worth speaking about. As for central European countries, they are too busy brown-nosing the current empire to even think of becoming an empire (well, except Poland, of course, which dreams of some kind of Polish Empire between the Baltic and the Black Sea; let them, they have been dreaming about it for centuries, and they will still dream about it for many centuries to come…).
Now compare European militaries with the kind of armed forces you can find in Latin America or Asia? There is such a knee-jerk assumption of superiority in most Anglos that they completely fail to realize that medium and even small-sized countries can develop militaries sufficient enough to make an outright US invasion impossible or, at least, any occupation prohibitively expensive in terms of human lives and money (see here, here and here).
This new reality also makes the typical US missile/airstrike campaign pretty useless: they will destroy a lot of buildings and bridges, they will turn the local TV stations (“propaganda outlets” in imperial terminology) into giant piles of smoking rubble and dead bodies, and they kill plenty of innocents, but that won’t result in any kind of regime change. The striking fact is that if we accept that warfare is the continuation of politics by other means, then we also have to admit, that under that definition, the US armed forces are totally useless since they cannot help the US achieve any meaningful political goals.
The truth is that in military and economic terms, the “West” has already lost. The fact that those who understand don’t talk, and that those who talk about this (denying it, of course) have no understanding of what is taking place, makes no difference at all.
In theory, we could imagine that some kind of strong leader would come to power in the US (the other western countries are utterly irrelevant), crush the Neocons like Putin crushed them in Russia, and prevent the brutal and sudden collapse of the Empire, but that ain’t gonna happen. If there is one thing which the past couple of decades have proven beyond reasonable doubt is that the imperial system is entirely unable to reform itself in spite of people like Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Ross Perrot, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel or even Obama and Trump – all men who promised meaningful change and who were successfully prevented by the system of achieving anything meaningful. Thus the system is still 100% effective, at least inside the US: it took the Neocons less than 30 days to crush Trump and all his promises of change, and now it even got Tulsi Gabbard to bow down and cave in to Neocons’ absolutely obligatory political orthodoxy and myths.
So what is likely to happen next?
Simply put, Asia will replace the Western World. But – crucially – this time around no empire will come to take the place of the AngloZionist one. Instead, a loose and informal coalition of mostly Asian countries will offer an alternative economic and civilizational model, which will be immensely attractive to the rest of the planet. As for the Empire, it will very effectively disband itself and slowly fade into irrelevance. Both US Americans and Europeans will, for the very first time in their history, have to behave like civilized people, which means that their traditional “model of development” (ransacking the entire planet and robbing everybody blind) will have to be replaced by one in which these US Americans and Europeans will have to work like everybody else to accumulate riches. This notion will absolutely horrify the current imperial ruling elites, but I wager that it will be welcomed by the majority of the people, especially when this “new” (for them) model will yield more peace and prosperity than the previous one!
Indeed, if the Neocons don’t blow up the entire planet in a nuclear holocaust, the US and Europe will survive, but only after a painful transition period which could last for a decade or more. One of the factors which will immensely complicate the transition from Empire to “regular” country will be the profound and deep influence 1000 years of imperialism have had on the western cultures, especially in the completely megalomaniac United States (Professor John Marciano’s “Empire as a way of life” lecture series addresses this topic superbly – I highly recommend them!): One thousand years of brainwashing are not so easily overcome, especially on the subconscious (assumptions) level.
Finally, the current rather nasty reaction to the multi-culturalism imposed by the western ruling elites is no less pathological than this corrosive multi-culturalism in the first place. I am referring to the new theories “revisiting” WWII and finding inspiration in all things Third Reich, very much including a revival of racist/racialist theories.
This is especially ridiculous (and offensive) when coming from people who try to impersonate Christians but who instead of prayers on their lips just spew 1488-like nonsense. These folks all represent precisely the kind of “opposition” the Neocons love to deal with and which they always (and I really mean always) end up defeating.
This (pretend) opposition (useful idiots, really) will remain strong as long as it remains well funded (which it currently is). But as soon as the current megalomania (“We are the White Race! We built Athens and Rome! We are Evropa!!!”) ends with an inevitable faceplant, folks will eventually return to sanity and realize that no external scapegoat is responsible for the current state of the West. The sad truth is that the West did all this to itself (mainly due to arrogance and pride!), and the current waves of immigrants are nothing more than a 1000 years of really bad karma returning to where it came from initially. I don’t mean to suggest that folks in the West are all individually responsible for what is happening now.
But I do say that all the folks in the West now live with the consequences of 1000 years of unrestrained imperialism. It will be hard, very hard, to change ways, but since that is also the only viable option, it will happen, sooner or later.
But still – there is hope. IF the Neocons don’t blow up the planet, and IF mankind is given enough time to study its history and understand where it took the wrong turn, then maybe, just maybe, there is hope.
I think that we can all find solace in the fact that no matter how ugly, stupid and evil the AngloZionist Empire is, no other empire will ever come to replace it.
In other words, should we survive the current empire (which is by no means certain!) then at least we can look forward to a planet with no empires left, only sovereign countries.
I submit that this is a future worth struggling for.
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I think the author misses a huge part of the formation of modern western culture, which is the banking consortiums. The Catholic Church was a big player in that realm but not the originators. Nefarious Banksters have ruled, or at the very least guided, most modern empires since the Dark Ages. The American Empire is no different.
I believe they will glom onto the next Empire as well. They have no allegiance except unto themselves and no pity for the Sheeple.
If these people disarm the usa the americans will forever be cucked. If they can keep their guns when usa is not the worlds power and banksters move toward china to steal then maybe usa has an opportunity for a redo if they can keep normals in charge long enough and have enough will for what it takes long term. They would have a fighting chance if there were enough small arms widely distributed, kinda like taliban they will always be there even if in heart so will usa patriots. Both are an ideal not just a form of rule or govt. Beliefs are much harder to stop than form of govt….
“Both US Americans and Europeans will, for the very first time in their history, have to behave like civilized people, which means that their traditional “model of development” (ransacking the entire planet and robbing everybody blind) will have to be replaced by one in which these US Americans and Europeans will have to work like everybody else to accumulate riches”
Yes, because the rest of the planet are so damned civilised and have only ever accumulated their wealth through completely honest means. You have genuine criticisms of the West but like many anti-Western mouthpieces you cannot help but reduce the argument to a childlike Black hat/White hat false dichotomy.
All cultures are the same.
More than 300 boys and men, some as young as five and many in chains and bearing scars from beatings, have been rescued in a raid on a building that purported to be an Islamic school in northern Nigeria, police said on Friday.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-abuse-idUSKBN1WC0ZG
All you women and cucked men and LGQTBQWsEdRc in unison say, “ain’t islam just nifty”….
This is not honest; he does not exonerate anyone, but blames mankind in general. We are all the same at our core. Whether or not he is right about the end of empires only time will tell. The end of this one will be a doozy. Personally, I think whoever survives will only find resources to control very small parcels of real estate, and only for short periods of time.
The author is full of shit. He leaves out one human component “GREED”. China is greedy. When the fall of Western civilization occurs due to its own stupidity China and Russia will collapse as well resulting in a world wide war never before imagined.
The Lefty morons fear the Climate will kill us all and that we only have 12 years to live. The fall of Western Civilization is the real problem and that will assuredly kill us all.
That first line was what I was thinking.
The Saker smells. Something I can’t quite put my finger on.
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The demise of the Empire doesn’t guarantee the continued existence of sovereign nations. The rise of the tech companies, coupled with quantum computing and A.I. could mean a planet run by machines.
Pretty good analysis until the end, where the Saker faceplants once again on the subject of genetics, HBD, demography and the disaster that is the 3d world migrating to the civilized world….Apparently the Saker thinks he is piling up virtue points by denying the obvious science of intelligence, but in reality demography is destiny…..Invite the 3d world, become the 3d world….
In science every breed or type of animal can be placed in a hierarchy of intelligence. For instance the black crow is one of the smartest birds. Why the cuckoo is one of the dumbest. It is just science to apply the exact same rules to humans. There are smarter cultures and dumber ones. I believe it was the r/k thesis that showed a lot of scientific modeling for this in humans and it was not kind to heavily pigmented persons. So they were labeled as racists and it was ignored. Soon the study on black crows will be a new york times best selling white paper because it makes something black look smart…..
“I think that we can all find solace in the fact that no matter how ugly, stupid and evil the AngloZionist Empire is, no other empire will ever come to replace it.”
– The Saker
Saker forgot a foundational rule of physics (and Human operations) which states that “Nature abhors a vacuum”, and in an global environment when the A-Z Empire implodes, collapses, or dissipates, there will be some version of The Will To Power that desires conquest and control.
It could be a resurgent Islam; possibly a “private” Corporatist one, made up of The Evil Fuckers (Banksters/Globalist Elites;) or, in the worst case scenario, a Global non-Human Empire of heartless and bloodless robots integrated to Artificial General Intelligence, something akin to the visionary system in “The Matrix” films.
And in my most awful moments I think of a global Satanic Empire with the Enemy of God in charge, just like the Bible says is going to occur. But then again that is supposed to last a mere 3 1/2 years until Christ’s return.
So don’t be cocksure that the end of the A-Z Empire will be an era of freedom and national pride, sunshine and roses. Somebody wants to be in charge and whoever or whatever it is going to be will do whatever the fuck they want to – including CBRN warfare and genocide – to achieve it and retain it.
This is how plunder became synonymous with capitalism.
When you see low iq africans wasting a life altering or sustaining resource and a western world comes in to tame them and teach them; this cucked author says that is bad to move them from their feral ways into civilized society. Imagine a place called Eater Island where some idiots live and you show up and inform them that their tree cutting will cause their extinction…..a land with no trees is much harder for life to exist and is normally left to a barren rogue existence; look at Qatar, a land of no trees. If not for oil it would be Mad Max in real life.
The Saker was an excellent weapons analyst turned lousy political pundit. He said he thought Stalin was kind of ok and hated Khrushcev for killing him. I’m still banned(apparently for life) for calling him on his black girlfriends defense of Travon Martin on his site.
To his credit. He was way ahead of everyone else on the new weapons Russia was bringing out or had in the pipeline. All of the ones I read so far have been very accurate in hindsight. He should stick to weapons.
Like Eric Peter should stick with cars (pre-airbag)
Like Caitlin Johnstone should stick with Australia.
Like PCR should stick with Reaganomics.
The list goes on and on and on and on.
Always the authors that call out rednecks and whites etc seem to have their own hidden agenda issues and biases….so he has a black girlfriend huh……..no bias, influence, or cucking there…..move along nothing to see here.
The Author seems to be a Sino-Russian Pied-Piper Apologist preaching to our Useful Idiot lemmings; a budding Marx attacking America. China ruling colonies more justly than America seems as silly as Marx saying Communist will govern better than Capitalist, or Catholics believing their Pope is better than Kings or Parliaments, or Muslims that a Caliphate would be better than Democracy, etc. He’s right that the wicked always attain the power in any Worldly System; he’s right about America, which succumbed to an Evil Rothschild Central Banking Empire in 1913, which now “owns and controls” almost everything in the West. He correctly predicts the West will collapse but wrongly says China, Russia and the rest will be a great improvement. I bet he’s very wrong; that he doesn’t know Economics, Science and Religion well: that TPTB will soon collapse the Dollar and Euro; people will welcome the Chip (the Mark of the Beast of Revelation?) and it’s New World Order’s (solo) abundant e-money (of the Rothschild Central Bank; the White Horse?). At the same time, the Grand Solar Minimum (GSM) Mini-Ice Age will usher in food and fuel shortages (the Black Horse); Wars (The Red Horse) and Plagues (The Pale Horse). Maybe he’s a little right but I am preparing for an Apocalypse because I believe the Gospel is more right.
All these “flash-in-the-pan” authors like Saker and all junior politicians sound good for a few months or years.
Until someone pays them off and/or takes them to meet a living Kennedy.
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if you’re widely read & write enough words while wandering all around the map you’ll write a few nuggets of truth-
by & large,saker strikes me as a displaced russian or middle european who dislikes the west but who can’t go home again–
i also wouldn’t be surprised to find that he is funded by either the russkies or america haters like soros,et.al.–
He no doubt is.
Remember, there are people out there who still think Project Veritas is real, and not an intelligence project paid for by Hatestone and related assholes.
Red..
I think he might be living in Miami. His pedigree is confusing. If I read correctly, he was born in Europe to Russian parents who came to the states and hates white conservatives or sumthin.
thanks
Why does the Saker come off more and more like Communist Defeatism?
This is the typical pre-revolution (built 1904) train station in present day “Russia.”
They don’t leave the CCCP up for historical accuracy.
They leave it up because Communism never collapsed, nor went away.
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i agree with many of the legitimate criticisms presented such as the west in terminal decline, but bottom-line understanding of nature and space-time is laughable. whites didn’t invent empire. it is intrinsic to all human groupings (all species and all of nature, actually). the cruel reality of nature is the strong will always eat the weak. europe has always been resource poor. so it was inevitable europeans would go searching for more resources and fight to control them. to say the future will not have empires is completely nonsensical and irrational. china doesn’t wish to be an empire? take a look at the map of borders in the south china sea to see what they claim is theirs (also see the new silk road). there is no one (or will be no one) to fill the US shoes as a techno-industrial global empire, but that is more a problem of resources than a problem of will/want.
pretending that the increase in tribalism of the west is somehow really just controlled neo-con opposition is also incorrect. it’s also so well funded there are entire organizations promoting the right-wing with their websites plastered everywhere. oh wait. no. free speech platforms have been going the way of the dodo for the last couple of years (see the daily stormer and the TBP’s struggles with advertisements, as well as milquetoast conservatives being blacklisted).
which tells me you have no ear to the ground of the youth. the young white population in this country is overwhelmingly right wing. it is the obvious reaction/immune response to growing up in a world so at odds with the natural order, and being the first minority generation in their own country. as the west continues its culture and empire collapse, more people will wake up to the realities of race and religion (returning to what was commonplace prior to the last century). but i agree whites are responsible for our predicament. not solely, but in order to save our race we will have to organize. now or never.
This song really did kickstart my heart the morning I had set it as my alarm. Holy shite, I never got outta bed faster in my life.
‘Oh sure, the Chinese and the Russians want their countries to be truly free, powerful and sovereign, and they understand that this is only possible when you have a military which can deter an attack, but neither China nor Russia have any interests in policing the planet or imposing some regime change on other countries. All they really want is to be safe from the US, that’s it.’
Not true. China and Russia will never be free. They would rule the world if they could. The new Babylon will be a political, religious and economic technocratic world order controlled by the social credit matrix that is now in development in China. Russia and China will be represented by 2 of the 10 world kings but all countries will be serving one ring that rules them all.
Boy am I glad AI is just autofill and macros that will never replace THE MOB.
Not a bot dumbfuck and still more grounded than Miles Mathis.
Russia may not be interested in empire, but China certainly seems to be. Buying up all kinds of ports, developing resources in Africa. Footholds in Canada and the PNW. Largest pop. of Chinese outside of China is in Australia. Seen a bunch of Chinese students sent to study here in VT: ag.& environmental law. I think they are casting an eye everywhere they can. Wouldn’t you, if you had their population?
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That’s the willful side. I think there’s an energetical argument to be made that has nothing to do with ideology: there simply won’t be enough energy and resources to maintain any industrial civilization, much less maintain ind.civ. and project power outward. That and grave environmental problems are the main obstacles I see to a new Chinese empire.
Even his projection that “sovereign countries” will be left is questionable, since few countries seem to be physically capable of maintaining their borders even now.
Could be just a couple of wackos, or something larger:
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/california-probes-chinese-communist-police-impersonators/
chubby,
interesting story–
a few weeks ago somebody posted that the big asian gangs on the west coast were led & controlled by pla officers–
Makes sense, when china sees commiefornia acting communist and it leaders full marxist these “govt watchers from china” felt emboldened to be open and come out of the dark so emboldened they put the seal on their cars! The chinese govt is keeping tabs on its spies and wants them not to become americanized or fall in love with freedom (or what we used to have anyways)…
Anyone else see the absolute correlation of influx of chinese impressionism onto a country or culture and soon thereafter that country/culture becomes antigun? Australia, new zealand etc
China is an economic basket case with far too big a population to feed and manage.
I think for the next 100 years Russia has the most promise. It has a large land mass with vast riches and oil. It has no debt with a lot of gold. Putin projects a steady and controlled nature. He’s insightful and plays chess not checkers. Also, he’s causing a resurgence in religion, which to me supports stability. He doesnt seem too interested in empire.
After 100 years the possibilities make any prediction insignificant.
Think USSR not “Russia.”
https://www.exposetheenemy.com/israel-russia
winnie,
slow it down,we all understand–
It has been repeated enough that i now know for certain ussr is alive and no such thing as russia….
Dont forget the population per square foot i. Russia is one of the least. They have very little population compared to land size. If they were smart they would start enriching their peoples and allow purposeful, smart immigration to seek out entrepreneurs, workers not freeloaders, they could dominate as they have many exportable resources. But the thugs in charge still run the country as if they were a corner street gang and do not see they could rule the world…..
So this author dislikes the USA and UK and is a cuck and wants the world to really get it due and have power over the two nations that contributes to the benefit of all society. Just look at the number of mankinds total of invententions and see where they originated…..and they Bring culture and advances in humanity to the human race vs degrading it like the middle east does women. Or the Africans do to themselves. I could go on and on. Like that L’oreal commercial, don’t hate me because i am beautiful, well don’t hate the UsA because they are good, powerful, confident, and make shit happen whether you like or not, or agree or not. They choose an action and make it happen vs all the hippy lgbtqrstjdhdgdgdh people who would sit around and fucking wordsmith for centuries over a goddamned vowel. They hate decisions and want to argue about arguing to make a decision while the world falls apart and someone else makes them a slave. These types are not leaders nor followers but are attuned to be lifetime slaves of someone, something, or anything. Some people are just geared to be the fucker and some the fucked. These types like getting fucked.
How many decades, or hundred of years, of the looming Islamic caliphate will humanity have to endure?
Empires eat their own… muh melting pot.
Population Immiseration in America
Why did this happen? I answer this question in a series of posts, Why Real Wages Stopped Growing (see it in Popular Blogs and Series). The TL;DR answer is that it was a combination of immigration, loss of manufacturing jobs overseas, massive entry of women into the labor force (thus, this factor both inflated household income and, perversely, depressed wages for men), and changing attitudes towards labor. A model incorporating these influences does a pretty decent job of capturing both the turning point of the 1970s and fluctuations afterwards:
http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/population-immiseration-in-america/
This is more than a little reminiscent of the Boomer cluelessness that simply can’t grasp the significance of a rise in tuition from 500/semester to 15,000/semester when wages have not risen. Not a single American cares about the rising Chinese standard of living when his own has declined, and declined significantly in comparison with his parents.
What we’ve witnessed over the last 50 years is the mass transfer of American wealth and property title from the middle classes to the elite of the US elite. These indicates that revolution is coming, sooner or later, in one way or another. Right now, the average citizen is content with Taco Bell and Netflix… but Netflix is becoming less entertaining with every season that passes.
The problem, of course, is one of labor oversupply.
The American economy has been operating under the conditions of labor oversupply since roughly the 1970s. The main causes were immigration, the entry of massive numbers of baby boomers and women into the labor force, the export of jobs overseas.
– Peter Turchin
https://voxday.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-clueless-elite.html
Lots of good comments from readers, as usual. The only point I’d like to add is to dispute the dubious point that the current Western civilization was born around 1050 and that the misadventures of the Franks define what we are today. To casually dismiss all that went before–Greek and Roman civilizations–as if we don’t owe a good portion of what we are today to their foundational ideas is ridiculous and based on nothing but opinion.
Moreover, the author seems to imply that the Franks alone were guilty of rampaging through civilization to the ruin of everyone else. History is replete with continual waves of barbarians that swept across Asia and Europe, then later the Muslims from the Middle East through north Africa and into Spain, mowing down everything in their path until they met their match in Rome/Constantinople/France/Germany. The Franks were simply the next wave, coming from the west instead of the east or south. The Crusades were at least in part aimed to reclaim former Roman/Christian territories from the Musslemen. Contemporaneously with the Franks, the Mongols/Tartars (starting with Genghis Khan) spread through Eurasia slaughtering millions, raping millions, and taking millions as slaves. They are among the ancestors of the Turks, Chinese, Russians, Indians, and others, and they were a thousand times worse than the Franks.
To believe that modern-day Chinese and Russians are any different, that they won’t let power and money go to their heads and strive to take over everything they can, is to deny human nature. To dismiss the possibility that the West can’t possibly bounce back from collapse is to ignore that no society ever has been as inventive and ingenious as ours. And, by the way, quick return from collapse is possible, as his precious Russia is demonstrating today.