Posted on 09/24/2022 4:50:26 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As some of you know, I’m an aficionado of ancient history. I thought it might be worthwhile to discuss what happened to Rome and based on that, what’s likely to happen to the U.S. Spoiler alert: There are some similarities between the U.S. and Rome.
I think Casey describes Postmaster General Lloyd Austin perfectly. :)
I submit that America did become an empire of markets, and fought wars to protect those markets. If America has declined in the aspect of empire, it has been in its ability to dominate world markets. There are many reasons. However, I place our consumerism at the top of the list.
The Neocons said we had reached "the end of history." The entire world wanted democratic capitalism. Every Muslim, every Chinese, every African, was a Jeffersonian liberal at heart who yearned for McDonald's and Netflix.
Or maybe that was just propaganda. Perhaps the Neocons knew they were squandering America's blood and treasure in the Mideast. But like Satan, they knew their time was limited, so they wanted to push as far as they could before the money ran out.
“The Neocons said we had reached “the end of history.”
Don’t mention that crap, please. It sickened me when the ‘legendary’ book came out, and it sickens me more today.
But I do think they are now trying to ‘end history’, by getting a nuclear war started with Russia, or China.
More similarities with Britain. A century ago, they were at the point we are now. They succumbed to guilt and a feeling that their rule was illegitimate. Also, they got into too many wars and borrowed too much money. They also thought that they could let their industry slide and remain the world’s banker. The difference is that they fell because their power that came from governing other people — the Irish, the Indians, the Africans — came to be seen as illegitimate. With us, our ability to govern our own country is in question and seen as illegitimate.
“It ended with passage of the 1965 immigration act. Accelerated by open borders.”
That was the first blow.
The second came in 1972 when Nixon opened China. Jobs disappeared to China and our money allowed their economy to flourish.
I cannot find any analogous historical set of circumstances to the contemporary moment. The political class of the US is waging war on the elements that traditionally have provided the stable basis for productivity and internal stability. Simultaneously, US military and political power is spreading accross the globe in an unprecedented fashion. The U-NATO_EU block is penetrating deeply into the European ‘other’zone, the East. In the Pacific and Indian Ocean area the US and its Pacific ally block are preparing for either a armed truce or a regional war with mainland China. While this going on the Axis of the Others, Russia-Iran-China grows closer together to oppose the US-globalizing empire. The potential for Cold War 2 to become a global hot war is obvious. Apparently the US military and intel establishment believes the US will maintain an absolute technological lead over this new axis and both the US population and the world can be kept under control. This is is a new global chess board and unlike anything in the past.
Yea Biden is Nero ..........
There are many, many differences between The Roman Empire and The United States.
What has not changed is the behavior of humans.
The same emotions are present,
Of course communism is a threat, but there is now way communism could take over America without the corruption. Corruption is a weapon.
Which brings me to a slight thread creep.
Why is it that the corrupt CIA, DOJ, FBI, Bidens, Pelosi’s and the many others, fail to see that when the country finally becomes a communist country that they will be the first to be executed. It will be aan immediate bloodbath just as Cambodia.
Why? Because the new rulers understand that the people who will stab us in the back will stab them in the back and that is why they nust be eliminated.
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Rome was composed of contiguous territories that were conquered and incorporated.
The US is more of an economic empire along the lines of Athens before the Peloponnesian War. Amazing parallels between the sheer arrogance of Athens, and our Post WWII insistence on having a finger in every pie.
“When I attend an NFL game and feel the electricity inside the stadium...”
I do not attend, nor do I every watch football. I despise the NFL because many of the players, management and fans hate America. Hate her. I suspect you are not feeling electricity, but idolatry and idiocy.
Respectfully submitted
Anyone calls us an empire is skewed
The unconstitutional income tax, taking the dollar off of the gold standard, and illegal immigration, enabled the globalists to undercut the Constitution.
RE: Yea Biden is Nero...
How good is he on the fiddle? And has anyone ever heard him sing?
Exactly.
Western civilization is committing active suicide. Morality has been removed from all public like and the demonic progressives have flooded their nations with third world s hole people who make s holes everywhere they go.
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Nero convinced the Romans the Christians started the fire. We know how that went.
That'll be hard for 'em to do ...
...or whether they need to go out with a nuclear war.
Where they'll be the first and only ones into the bomb shelters, before locking the doors.
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