Signs of a Dying Empire

[Galen]

(10-18-2017, 12:02 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(10-18-2017, 05:27 AM)Galen Wrote: Unlike the libtards and Dims you have grasped why the US Empire is coming to the end of the line.  Davidson and Lord Rees-Mogg once noted that the Soviet Union was Bangladesh with nuclear weapons.  This is the ultimate destination of the US unless it starts downsizing its empire and government which I don't see the political class being willing to do.

Its for damn certain that the libtards and Dims won't and there is only a slim chance of that happening with the R's.  The R's have a slightly stronger sense of self-preservation which makes them only slightly more likely to accept the end of the empire.  Either way the odds are not particularly promising.

No one wants to see the US as the permanent cop-of-the-world, but, much like a land mine, once you step on it, lifting your foot is nigh to impossible.  If you have a plan that leaves the world in decent shape after we retreat from world leadership, let's hear it.

The British didn't step away but rather circumstances such as their fiscal condition in the wake of the First World War forced them to.  As things are now, the permanent bureaucracy in DC still hasn't figured out that their actual ability to project power has dramatically decreased in the last twenty years.  It is not the responsibility of the US to fix the problems of the rest of the world which really hasn't worked out all that well.