Empires End in the Dustbin of History

ileanajohnson.com ^ | 9/13/2017 | Ileana Johnson

[rktman]

Empires come and go. The twilight of western civilization is not just a poetic idea, it is a painful reality. Liberals often say that they do not like to make broadly pessimistic pronouncements about the collective fate of civilization. Of course not, it might upset their blind followers who dwell in the haze of marijuana, hard-core drugs, immorality, decadence, and debauchery.

Anarchists are allowed to burn down towns, while police are told to stand down. ANTI-FA and BLM, fascist and racist organizations by any description, deface statues they don’t like and beat up others whose ideas they disagree with, proclaiming that they have a right to attack them for their opinions.

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That is why the western empire is in its twilight and will eventually demise in the dustbin of history. And my people fought the Ottoman Empire for centuries. Much blood has been shed to keep them out of Christian lands. Now they are here to stay and fundamentally transform us because we let them.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Two forces in history—imperialism: small states become mega states and Balkanism: the break up of big states into small ones. We are now post imperalist world—big states becoming smaller ones due to tribalism and Nationalism (ie; Catalonia, Venice today). BUT sure as history is a template—a new form of imperialism will come forth and snap up states into new superstates. EU failed, USSR Failed, maybe China might make it work (they took Tibet—now looking at India and the south China Sea—next target Vietnam). Russia might make it work—Iran is making an effort—my money is on Egypt and South Africa and Brazil. Japan might go back into the Empire Business as well.

[SunkenCiv]

There's only one force at work there -- politics. Politics is always and only about power. That's rule number one; examination of other purported rules shows that they're restatements of rule number one, or somehow a subset of rule number one, or, and this is most likely, they are not really rules.

I was dumbfounded as a kid when I first saw a map of the pre-WWII world -- remember those great big windowshade-style multiple map things? Whole countries vanished, some got cut apart, some were new and carved out of devolved colonial holdings of the UK or France, astounding.

The current project and goal of Islamic states is to further splinter themselves, or better yet their own neighbors to A) weaken nearby rivals, B) create reliant neighbors and allies, and C) eventually build a numerical majority in the UN General Assembly.