Posted on 03/22/2014 11:28:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Cold War map of the world divided into two camps was simple and clear. The post-American world will be a much more ambiguous place. Instead of two global ideological alliances based around two world powers, there will be three post-ideological powers, no longer global in scope, and one worldwide ideological alliance.
The United States, Russia and China are post-ideological states. Russia and China have abandoned Communism. The United States is even abandoning nationalism; to say nothing of capitalism, democracy or freedom. Its rulers cling to scraps of global leftist ideology that isolate them from their own people.
Russia, China and the United States are all demographically unstable. Russia and the United States are both on track to majority-minority status. China’s demographic disaster will be the outcome of its one child policies, gendercide and its war on the countryside. The United States will probably weather its demographic problems better than Russia or China, because the former faces a fatal Muslim demographic takeover and the latter a conflict that will tear it apart, but like Russia and China, the demographic crisis in the United States will be exacerbated by the lack of common bonds to see it through a period of social stress.
There is little to unify Russia or China except greedy oligarchies playing at nationalism. It’s an unconvincing nationalism because the sons and daughters of their elites spend more time abroad than at home and sometimes even hold American citizenship. The oligarchs of Russia and the princes of China are as globalist as any Eurocrat. They have few national commitments. Their goals are wealth and power for their own families and associates.
Unfortunately there may be even less to unify the United States after the left erodes everything from free speech to the free market. Uncontrolled immigration has imported masses of hostile populations everywhere from Nashville to Minneapolis radically changing quintessentially American cultures and replacing them with balkanized minority coalitions with little in common except a mutual hostility against the United States.
In contrast to the cultural vulnerabilities of the three powers, Islam, the defining global ideological alliance, lacks a superstate as the center of its empire, though it has many state bases, but enjoys the allegiance of a worldwide population larger than any of the three powers. Demographic projections continue to favor the growth of Islam over China, Russia and the United States.
The three powers deal with Muslims by dividing them up into three groups; those that are part of their systems, those that are outside but allied to them, e.g. Syria for Russia, Saudi Arabia for the United States and Pakistan for China, and those that are its separatist or terrorist enemies.
Instead of coming to terms with a global struggle with Islam, each power largely concentrates on fighting Muslim separatist or terrorist groups that destabilize its sphere of influence while arming, funding and supporting those Muslim separatist and terrorist groups that destabilize rival powers.
Muslim terrorists operate in all three powers, but are dismissed as unrepresentative aberrations. That is wishful thinking, but empires are shaped to fight their own kind. Islam, like Communism, is something different. It is an ideology and post-ideological powers who believe in very little are poorly adapted to fighting it. Instead many of their elites secretly admire its dedication.
Islam emerged by taking advantage of the slow collapse of the Roman Empire. Its reemergence as a world power once again coincides with the fall of empires. Like a hyena trotting after prey, Islam is a cultural carrion eater consuming the skills and knowledge of superior civilizations to sustain its warlordism whose religious fanaticism eventually decay into decadent dynasties.
The collapse of the Pax Americana under Obama has freed up Russia and China to begin campaigns of territorial expansionism. Obama’s failure to deter Russia in Ukraine will encourage China to use force as a solution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea. These events will wake the world from the dream of the Pax Americana in which American power kept the peace in much of the developed world.
Those most immediately affected by the decline of the United States will be the Asian and European countries that outsourced their defense to the United States after WW2.
Europe was able to turn inward without having to make the hard choices and its elites were even able to drag the United States into implementing their vision internationally. But that is coming to an end. Libya may have been the last such war and the American contribution to it was fairly limited.
The nations of Europe suffer from Japanese birth rates, Russian demographics, Chinese corruption and American economics (though it would be more accurate to say that America suffers from EU economics.) Despite its size and population, Europe does not have a bright future.
Russia will not stop with Ukraine and NATO will dissolve, officially or unofficially, but the budding Russian empire will find that fighting a new wave of Muslim insurgencies in formerly peaceful republics will consume too much of its time and energy. The soldiers who will march on the scattered pieces of the old red empire will be Muslims and the Eurasian Union will become a Muslim empire with a handful of churches. Like Rome, its fall will come at the hands of its own barbarians.
Iraq and Afghanistan will not be as psychologically devastating to Americans as Vietnam, but severe military budget cuts and a campaign against the warrior culture will leave the military in no shape for anything except peacekeeping missions.
None of this has to happen, but it will if the same bad decisions continue to be made.
If eight years of Obama are topped by eight years of Hillary; this is where we will end up. If multilateralism continues to be the great obsession of the elites, if bad economics and bad strategy continue destroying nations, if the developed world continues de-industrializing to save the planet while empowering energy tyrannies, then the post-American world will be upon us.
Ashes.
“But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains...”
Mark 13:14
(I realize its a prophecy about Jerusalem but it is still the verse that immediately comes to mind when you say Hillary might actually be elected after Obama.....Gawd save us all!)
Not quite, what we would have is lots of totalitarian states all over the world. The concept of freedom will be forgotten for if it dies here, in the US it dies everywhere.
There will be 2 classes, as there were in the middle ages, wealthy land owners and peasants.
If the LoFos elect Slick Willie’s wife, there will be no rescue of America. It will be officially over.
Yeah, I think this polity is a component of Babylon at that point.
Yes and no. I would phrase it “if the dims are allowed to steal another election as they did in 2012....
There were allot of “interesting” situations that year.
If patriots cannot get the word out about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers by 2016 then they deserve Hillary.
The world was fortunate that after the collapse of the British and French Empires, we were the ones to step into the gap. That bought the west a good 60 more years that was then squandered the time on socialism, and cultural marxism.
It’s too bad India is in no shape to step up, and that we stupidly emasculated Japan. That would have bought us a couple of decades to get our stuff together.
We’ll we up crap heap if we elect Hillary or a GOP McCain type warnut who wants to be a wartime President. We’ve had 100 years of war with the costs of blood and treasure. We have piled on to that trade deficits, a warped view of the Constitution where wars are not declared and sodomy, which was once a crime, is now a right, a government ruled by lobbyists and a population being diminished by our best and brightest unwilling to marry and create.
What we need is USA nationalism. Build the USA with strength in defense and rebuild our economy. That means screw the world. Another war is existential for us. We have traded China into a powerhouse. We have ignored Russia, a potential ally. Engaged in boots on the ground warfare in Asia and the ME. No matter which side we back, we lose. Others keep clamoring for us to set red lines, to back their efforts at revolution, or to settle century old problems.
No more foreign wartime Presidents. We protect ourselves only or we fade from history. A return to the Christianity of our forefathers would be very welcome.
In a nutshell.....NO MORE BLOOD FOR ISLAM!
One will know when America is lost.
It will be the day the Dem/Repub/Marxist(Obama) leadership sign Amnesty into law.
Tens of millions of foreigners will flood the USA, vote Dem for gimmies and the Dems will have a One Party Socialist/Fascist Dictatorship as they have desired.
There will be USA serfs trying to escape to more free places soon after (China, Russia, Cuba?).
Freedom will be stabbed thru the heart by the “Dems”.
My Take: A Post American world will have a Russia almost as big as the old USSR, China too will be larger. Europe will be broken into 45 nations. Even South America will be broken up. Africa will belong to Russia and China. America will be five nations, Canada, three, Mexico three, Brazil four. Middle class will not be large. Islam will not be very important in this world. Vietnam, Laos, Burma will all be part of China. Much of eastern Europe, Turkey, syria will be part of Russia.
In America we will have a Presidents for life, and no rights as we know them today.
And drill baby drill !!!!!
The USA has gone well over 100 years without a Civil War. If the Cow gets elected, that streak may well end.
I almost agree with your bottom line. I don’t think Russia will be in Africa, barring the remote possibility of North Africa. Africa will be cut up by shakily growing Chinese authority and shakily waning European authority.
President for life in America may be in the rump US. In Dixie, such a president would have a hunting accident. We’d be back at the Celtic warlord model. Affable if possible, Hatfield and McCoy if not.
We are each day approaching a Social War. It has to be unless Americans are willing to go under and become subordinate to the Third World demographic as illustrated by the clown and his aides currently residing in “OUR” White House. The occupant of the White House and his aides are symptoms of an underlying malaise. I hope the disease can be cured. Time will tell.
It's all bad if another democrat follows Obama...
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