That is an interesting observation. NATO is an American sandbox, the NGOs like the UN and WHO the toys American overlords like Kill Gates put in play at their whim. I have come to view - necessarily from the utter incapacity of President Biden to change his own diaper - the presidency of the United States as a purely symbolic office, with that worthy only mouthing the words provided them by the actual rulers, or rather their propagandists.
Many people deeply believe in institutions. I know they believe in the philosophical foundation institutions are stood on, but fear they confuse rhetoric for substance, the truth of the philosophical precepts with the duplicity and deception actual institutions practice to enable the full depth and breadth of larceny and fraud that, in America at least, is breathtaking in scope and volume. Tens of trillions of dollars of money borrowed fraudulently against American civilians' bond and value have been obfuscated and purloined through pretense of incompetence by brigands, rascals, and malevolent psychopaths without - indeed, with full blessing and every facility at their disposal - a quiver of objection from law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and officials ensconced into the bureaucracies long ago captured by the very criminal organizations they were instituted to destroy and prevent.
I am struck that this is the very model collapse of empire at precisely the time Glubb Pasha described in his exposition of imperium and interregnum,The Fate of Empires and the Search for Survival, by Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, KCB, CMG, DSO, OBE, MC, KStJ, KPM, PDF.
Right away therein he provides this chart on Page 2:
The nation, Dates of rise and fall, Duration in years
Assyria 859-612 B.C. 247
Persia 538-330 B.C. 208
(Cyrus and his descendants)
Greece 331-100 B.C. 231
(Alexander and his successors)
Roman Republic 260-27 B.C. 233
Roman Empire 27 B.C.-A.D. 180 207
Arab Empire A.D. 634-880 246
Mameluke Empire 1250-1517 267
Ottoman Empire 1320-1570 250
Spain 1500-1750 250
Romanov Russia 1682-1916 234
Britain 1700-1950 250
To it we can add the USA 1776 - 2024 (present day) 248
It seems our observations of internal rot and corruption insuperable and, like terminal cancer, killing the body politic from the inside, aren't mistaken, but confirm the historical record that has established across millennia that imperial institutions endure but two centuries and a half, and America is short this duration by but two years.
What Trump has the stuff to do what may be able to prevent global collapse into chaos that will enable the NWO to conquer the world as is their intention, we shall see. I am confident that by 2028 the world we live in will have become as no more than a recollection of historical record, and the institutions and powers of that day will be completely different, or becoming so out of chaotic collapse. Such is the power of corruption unchecked, of hubris, apathy, and ignorance when greedily seized by illimitably larcenous megalomaniacs. I could hope for nothing more than fundamental reformation competent to support restoration of just Romanian governance, but I am not inclined to believe in fantasies, and will expect predictable catastrophic collapse, as every indication at every hand provides.
Were I Romanian I would dismiss wishing for succor as insubstantial and rally my people to see to their republic with such pitchforks and torches at hand. We have our hands full in America to see to our own fate as interregnum inevitably approaches, where perhaps the best we can hope for is complete excision of the cruft and corruption that has grown upon our foundation on the Declaration of Independence, the total cessation of operation of every agency and federal rule, regulation, and law, and a new erection of constitutional coordination of self governance by the American people. This is unlikely to be timely for Romanian electoral procession. Indeed, it's unlikely at all, in the extreme.
Glubb writes on page 20:
"Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not convinced that anything in life is worth saving."
This is not a description of Romania, but rather of the EU and the US, of empires rather than nations that have not attained to the immense wealth availed by extensive trade routes parasitized by the oligarchs of the country. Romania isn't sentenced to the fate of empires - if it can rally today to reject it's inclusion amongst them and remove the parasitic political professionals endeavoring to destroy Calin Georgescu.
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Interesting read.
If one now considers the US being an empire in decline, and Russia an empire in the rise (though I would not say so), and given the theory in the book that having an empire and its advantages on ones side, it'd be better to submit to the newly upcoming one, instead of going under with the old.
In a way, this story is one, being told currently. Here in Germany, the Angst is being spread about the great evil Mister Putin, who has even written a book, and supposedly said that he wants to build an empire (don't know, was told). Now we can say, without being untrue, that the EU did not become such super mighty empire itself. The time window is already over.
But people live within time-delays. The Eastern European countries just have had a tiny taste of what the West (including USA) had provided them with (Poland, the Baltic states, etc.) and are still under the spell of good old communism or plain poor states of life, which they - factually not incorrect - attribute to Russia, even though the Sowjet Union is long dead. They mentally go westwards, not eastwards. With some exceptions (Rumania, Georgia, Moldavia etc.) - they do look eastwards and see the opportunities of BRICS.
My brothers were in Estonia in the beginning of the 2000's, I guess- maybe a bit earlier - and since my family lived there for a couple of years in the 70s, they could report what was different. They told me "not much", even the old village, where we lived and the house was there and the barn, which collapsed in half, still was not fully repaired. In rural areas the change was much slower than in the cities, like the capital Tallin, wich is super modern. Now, these baltic states do not like Russia, at all (in general, but I am sure there, too, the public is split). I think that the Scandinavian countries decided wrong in joining EU/NATO and the people, who are in favor in doing so, might regret it, since now they too, are digging our common whole deeper.
I am not certain though that Russia will succeed. So far, they have been fighting a fierce battle and no end in sight - losing lives on their side, too. The powers really want to have Russia. All of it, as it looks. Once Russia is being defeated, the game is over. Russia declared not to use atomic bombs, is being told in the media. I wonder what the role of China will be.
What do you make of it?
I think that things are going to change radically and abruptly, signaled by the election of Trump, and propelled by the cult of personality he has crafted so deviously that it rivals even the great dictators of the 20th Century like Stalin. I believe that the hard push to Weimarian degeneracy in the last decade is a deliberate psyop to outrage and disgust the majority of people across the West (and the world) and cause a backlash that will push Western civilization hard to the right, because the Machiavellian overlords that scheme to conquer the world and institute a world government do not want a society of idle NEETS indulging in every perverse sexual more, but want a totalitarian tyranny in which people are afraid to dissent, fear to object to jackbooted thugs, and so tolerate being stripped of their wealth as long as they are provided a bugpod in a 15 minute prison and daily goyslop with a side of creepy crawlie bugs.
I think a vast engine of deception and psychological manipulation has been plotting these days and this pass for many decades, and have purposed to have Trump take the role of global saviour, dragging humanity back from the brink of WWIII by negotiating bigly with the major powers of the world, the EU, Russia, China, India and perhaps more, to create a global trade network, preserve the US Dollar's reserve currency status and stop the BRICS from creating their own trade currency, end the war in the Ukraine by partitioning the Ukraine, mostly to Russia (the lands east of the Dneiper) but a sizable chunk of the west of the Ukraine to Poland, to drag Tusk to the Eastern European bloc that is forming around Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, and Romania, to put paid to NATO and eliminate it, and end the financial sanctions in order to achieve peace, and more importantly facilitate global trade, because that creates enormous opportunities for wealth for the investor class.
I think Trump will transform the USA into the American empire, just as Caesar did Rome from the republic. I think the cult of personality will grow to what may today seem inconceivable heights, such that statues of the Great Man will sprout across the world, and grateful, prosperous people will lay wreaths at their feet. But that prosperity will be short lived and inure to the investor class as soon as they can strip it from the hoi polloi, and then, once power has been consolidated in the unitary executive, Trump will declare a global empire with himself as the emperor, and with the assent of his peers, who will take the bread as it's buttered.
At least I think that's the plan. I intend to foil it by beating the drum of universal adoption of table top and decentralized means of production, so that a nominal population of humanity can develop 3D printers, aquaponics, DIY power production and storage, flying cars, and etc., so that the blessings of civilization cannot be cut off by overlords, by severing the supply of such goods and services from centralized manufactories, so that Kissinger's observation that if you control the food you control the people cannot be proved, because people keep growing adequate supplies of food themselves. I don't intend to end up a hapless thrall in a bugpod restricted to walking distance and availed whatever vile lab grown cancer Kill Gates deigns to serve the plebs.
I intend to inspire an evolution, not a revolution, to a society of independent producers that reach for the very moon and planets, so that paradise prophesied of ancient days will come to fruition, and my sons, and their sons, will enjoy that felicity my aged bones can only imagine.
That's what I make of it.
Sorry. I know you dislike my rants.
I don't believe that Trump will be able to rebuild an empire that has been shaken to its foundations to such an extent. For every empire you also need a population that is determined, tough and practised in a disciplined lifestyle. To exaggerate, the US population is addicted to drugs. How you build an empire with so few capable, tough and, above all, battle-hardened citizens, I don't know. Most modern people have nothing in common with folks who know fight first hand, deprivation and the creativity, how to get by in tough times and how to make intelligent decisions, without becoming evil thugs.
The US has never had to fight a major military war at home in the recent hundred years, they lack that real time experience and the learnings from it. It's something that needs to be practised, in the view of military experts. Only soldiers experienced in real combat can bring their government up to speed on the latest developments in warfare in order to derive future decisions from them.
Even if many people think that modern wars are won through technology alone, this is not correct. You need men who can operate and master this technology, and also, all equipment, in the end, is physical and depends on manpower. The success of the USA in setting up military bases all over the world, overthrowing governments through bribery and constantly creating new trouble spots is undisputed. However, more and more nations no longer see this as an advantage, but as a danger.
It remains to be seen how much money is still needed from the previously pro-NATO Arab countries, or whether they are not already so rich that bribery is no longer enough and they are now looking for other partners and projects, like BRICS. I think it will be a while before the dollar loses its supremacy. But China and other nations will have their say and are already doing so.
Trump is too old to become that super imperialist. He maybe will live for some ten years longer before he also will fall towards senility and other illnesses. No one can stop age.
Maybe he is going to be killed earlier, who knows for sure. To make him a messiah, yeah, that works for the part of the populace who places high hopes onto him. But the moment he will reign für half a year, a year and the situation for the populace will not significantly change to the better, this messiah status will quickly fade, is my guess.
To fund terroristic groups and fanatics does not always play out, it is intended to do, I think.
I need to add that I don't know all these things for sure, but it shall be obvious, that I don't. I repeat infos I gather from the sources available.
You make only reasonable arguments here,but they mostly regard a military conquest that creates an empire. I am talking about a negotiated trade empire, an empire of corporations moving products.
About Trump's age, you are very correct. He's got 4 years to either do what he's going to do, or end the American republic, because the Constitution won't allow him to serve as President beyond that time. After Franklin Roosevelt was elected to a third term, the Constitution was amended to prevent that. But I don't think that's a problem for Trump, whom I do not think is a Constitutionalist, nor a lawyer, but a man that seems accustomed to making things change so he can have his way, which is what I expect of him.
As I said earlier, I hope I'm wrong. It's all rather speculative, pointless, unless there's some insight that enables preparatory actions to be taken, which I don't see. To put a pin in it, I'm just glad I'm not Syrian today.
Just found this channel. The interviewee explains a lot. And he does it in a good analytical way.
You know "Dialogue works" on yt? There is, where I often get my informations from. After a while, you get to know the different characters and tendencies.
I do, too.
I cannot express how sad I feel for them and also for all those folks in the Israel-Palestine war. It must be horrific beyond imagination.
I am praying for them.
I do follow him on Odysee. I just can't bring myself to have a Goolag account. Fortunately Odysee allowed folks to automate cross posting to Odysee from YT and this enables folks to back up their content for whenever they get stomped on by YT, which happens to a lot of folks I follow, oddly enough.
I found Dialogue Works on Odysee and followed them there.
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