The list is a bit incomplete; even after brief scrutiny, the Incas, the Maya, Portugal, and the Holy Roman Empire are obviously missing. The point, however, is made. The average lifetime of an empire is about 250 years:
https://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-life-span-of-empires-250-years.html
The list doesn’t include the US, because its author must have thought that the country was still in its heyday. As for its combatant approach, it has been in nearly perpetual war since its inception, and it did officially expand its territory to defeated countries (politely termed as “spheres of interests”), especially if the 800 or so military bases worldwide count as an occupying force, ensuring free exploitation of cheap labor, of natural resources, and establishing monopolies for its multi-billionaires. As for territorial expansion, the US was satisfied by occupying parts of Mexico, buying Alaska, and annexing Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Well, previously, it also occupied the southern states in The War of Northern Aggression in a military conquest in what history books now euphemistically call “The Civil War.” Poor Yankee soldiers had no idea that they were solidifying the foundations of their future enslavement to banks and corporations, the enslavement that is now rapidly taking shape in the form of aggressive policies by hijacked governments all over the world. Still, the US has never been bashful about imposing economic and banking constraints on the weak, the guileless, and the defenseless, which included, and is including, its own populace.
American hegemony started in the 1890s, and it became prominent after WW1, so there is a long way to go until its lifespan would reach 250 years. Nonetheless, the US is now showing spectacular signs of decline that it shares with empires of the past before they collapsed.
Imperial collapse can be attributed to one of more of the following, and the US is exhibiting signs of every single one of them:
1. Empires can fall to invaders – the US (banking, government, production and distribution, the MSM etc.) is now owned by foreign interests and millions of illegals enter the country every year, bringing along their cultures that are often completely incompatible with American traditions;
2. Currency devaluation – fiat money loses value as a result of interest charging; add excessive government spending that will never be possible to pay back;
3. No more room for expansion – the Petrodollar is dying; just about everything is privatized;
4. Run out of resources – artificial shortages, geoengineering, weaponized weather;
5. Poisoning – plenty of toxins, corrupt Medicine;
6. Corruption – too many go for the profits and the tax slaves don’t produce the sources anymore, which hastens inflation that accelerates the destruction of the economy.
The list is far from complete, but even a single item on it can be enough to end an empire.
Previous empires were usually destroyed or taken over by more powerful ones, sometimes in a peaceful process. Others were not competitive with emerging new powers and were left alone to fade away, because they were not worth the investment of a military invasion. This time, the US empire is utilizing all the former modes of collapse. A handful of eugenicist-globalist technocrats have seized power all over the world by controlling the global money supply. Their openly-announced goal is to demolish cultures, economies, 95% of human lives, and use their mecha-AI and cyborg robots to build a new world that will suit their taste.
Vernon Coleman has a few ideas about the imminent consequences:
What do you think?
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As you can find it in the Comment section, readers added a few essential aspects:
John Botica
noted that inept and overblown bureaucracy does seem to be another sign of decline.
sir isO
noted that
Agriculture goes to #3, #4, and #5, depending on the aspect and it is an essential aspect.
Pseudo-science (hijacking science) and employing it as the latest ideology to justify oppression is in accordance with Orthodox Jewish or Calvinist tenets, according to which illness is God's revenge for wrongdoing, but this is the first time in history that it is used for the destruction of civilization.
The United States has always been an Illuminati War Machine. Just plainly check your bank note. All the symbols have always been there.
The United States was never freed from 'British Rule'. The District of Columbia is a foreign nation. The Federal Reserve is an illegal operation.
The Media has always been used as a woolen cloth to cover the eyes of the grazing American Cattle. The good Soldiers and Serfs they are.
Perhaps Pax/Pox Americana is not included in the list above because 'we' are not an empire. According to official nationalist ideology like American exceptionalism, 'we' have not been subject to the law of class-based history and civilization by which the self-enriching few rule over the many, and continually expand their appetites for more through imperial conquest, with us as usual cannon fodder and collateral damage. Oh no, not US. 'We' are the defenders of the free world, and all those 800+ military bases across the planet, just part of an unprecedented arsenal of scorched-earth firepower, are there to serve humanitarian ends - even if 'we' are in the habit of overthrowing democratically elected governments and mass murdering civilians as well as combatants.
The trick for this organized criminal class is to gain our consent to their cons and identify our interests with theirs. Thereby theirs become the national interest, deviation from which invites criminallization of others as dangers to national security, domestic terrorists conveniently serving as scapegoats upon whom the thieves and killers may cast their sins.
Whether 'we' identify with North or South in the real estate deal fought out in 'our' history's internal imperial war, our choice in the end remains wage slavery or chattel slavery (and the former won out largley because it's more cost-effective for our masters). And those refugees of imperial campaigns in the colonies, like 'free trade' treaties with Mexico dispossessing and displacing millions, who then become officially designated illegals in our land, share common roots of struggle for survival and dignity with other culturally diverse immigrants who make up most of us in the nation's heritage, whatever insidious purposes they may be used for.
The rise of empires is the fall of common people everywhere the beast of Babylon rules. The fall of empires, all too often engineered as opportune crises for ruling elites to stake out a new world order or great reset for themselves, can likewise serve as an opening for us to reclaim our power, our own identities and history separate from the same old shit we've been taking for however long we've been falling for their lies.