Posted on 05/19/2009 11:02:52 AM PDT by Schnucki
On my first trip to the United States, aged 22, I was in a bar in New York, where a young Democrat lady from the Mid West started apologising to me about America's foreign policy and dominance of Europe and the world, McDonald's, Reagan etc.
She was a bit shocked when I turned on her, explaining that the only reason we could sleep safely in our beds in Europe, without fearing a knock at the door and a "come wiz us, please, comrade", was because Truman, Ike and co had chosen not to leave us to our own mess in 1945. I'd been to East Germany, I'd been to Czechoslovakia - if the USA was an empire, it was the best God-damn empire the human race had ever produced.
But I accept there are many people who don't share my enthusiasm for the nation of John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, and as a result there's quite a market for people predicting the downfall of the world's greatest democracy, a fantasy shared by America's enemies abroad and white supremicists at home.
So many will take heart that Russian academic Igor Panarin predicts that the United States is on the verge of collapsing.
"There’s a 55-45% chance right now that disintegration will occur," he says. "One could rejoice in that process,” he adds, poker-faced. "But if we’re talking reasonably, it’s not the best scenario — for Russia. "Though Russia would become more powerful on the global stage, he says, its economy would suffer because it currently depends heavily on the dollar and on trade with the U.S.
Mr. Panarin posits, in brief, that mass immigration, economic decline, and moral degradation will trigger a civil war next fall and the collapse of the dollar. Around the end of June 2010, or early July,
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
From where I stand, the title needs correction ... “A world without America would be an even more evil place”
A Russian talking about the USA collapsing is quite comical. He must be a daily reader of that communist propaganga, Pravda. True, we are not in great shape right now, though.
If you listen to the far-left and those are international liberalists long enough, you will find that they believe to the contrary: the world would be a better place without the U.S. (and Israel).
Our current president has stated many times that America’s best days are behind us (if he can help it).
We live too high on the hog, use too much of the world’s resources, need to disarm our military (dismantle the nukes and end future weapons program development), and need to understand the post-American world.
That’s pretty much the answer I got from a German teen about 18 years ago. I asked what he thought about having American military in Germany all these years after WWII. He said they are thankful for America during the war and thankful we are still there. Not only do we provide security but we’ve boosted their economy and provide a large portion of the civilian jobs in one way or another. He said like so many, his grandfather served under Hitler.
Ironic isn't it, that comfort, that security, that freedom is also what gives them their platform to complain. Short sightedness is a far more dangerous epidemic than a hundred different types of flu...
To Hell with that.
In a just world, they would get what they ask for and the rest of us wouldn’t.
I believe that another civil war here is likely. The Left believes that they finally have what they’ve spent generations trying to achieve: power. And they must have absolute power. To that ned, they will not tolerate anything that looks like real opposition.
The recent rise of the tea parties, the relentless and nonstop purchase or arms and ammuntion, more and moe states passing sovereignty resolutions and the increasingly more vocal resistance to the Obama regime have caught them off-guard.
The implication is that, ferrful of losing power, the Obamunist regime will act before they are really ready. The repressive tactics they will be obliged to use to stifle the nascent Second American Revolution will only serve to trigger widespread uprising and violence. Everybody with skin in the game aside from patriots and tyrants - ethnic and grievance groups, communist revolutionaries, anarchists - will jump in, and matters will quickly proceed beyond anyone’s ability to control or to predict the outcomes.
World “superpower” status has always been handed between a small group of sane nations for the past 600 years.
France
England
Spain
Portugal
Netherlands
U.S. - which thankfully balanced out the Soviet Union, and Defeated Japan and Germany.
Take us off the stage, and what you have left are:
China
Russia
India
Islamofacist Federation.
If India was the only one on the list or a EU rooted in something other than appeasement and socialism, I could sleep easily with us have a slightly diminished role on the world stage. But sadly the EU is a joke, and India can barely run basic services to most of the country, let alone project power and influence.
So in short, we have no one to hand off to. So were it or the world goes under.
if Hussein has his way, the world may get to find out...
Come on Aussies-- get busy with creating a massive population!
Evil indeed.
Right, exactly what Reverand Wright says.
Stalin had the manpower, control and desire but not the A-Bomb and air power. The USofA had the manufacturing and resources but with a 2 front war it could not have well resisted a European conquest campaign by the Soviet Union especially if it was delayed until the US and UK were deep into a Japan Invasion. When the idiots criticize Truman for the A-Bomb usage, I think of the above facts and that utterly ruthless, power-mad and murderous SOB, Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili aka Joseph Stalin.
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Seriously -- has anybody here heard any grumbling coming from California about Obama's policies? If anything, they're complaining that he's not going far enough, fast enough.
California secede? Pheh.
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