How Do Empires Fall?

How many criteria does the US meet?

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:

https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/i-warned-about-soaring-inflation-and-interest-rates-2020-so-whats-next

What do you think?

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As you can find it in the Comment section, readers added a few essential aspects:

1. John Botica

   noted that inept and overblown bureaucracy does seem to be another sign of decline.

2. 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.