4 Scenarios for the Coming Collapse of the American Empire

Tue Dec 07, 2010 11:21 pm » by **Kiltedkiller1**

The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.

December 5, 2010

A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Don’t bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.

Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administration’s rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare.
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But have no doubt: when Washington's global dominion finally ends, there will be painful daily reminders of what such a loss of power means for Americans in every walk of life. As a half-dozen European nations have discovered, imperial decline tends to have a remarkably demoralizing impact on a society, regularly bringing at least a generation of economic privation. As the economy cools, political temperatures rise, often sparking serious domestic unrest.

Available economic, educational, and military data indicate that, when it comes to U.S. global power, negative trends will aggregate rapidly by 2020 and are likely to reach a critical mass no later than 2030. The American Century, proclaimed so triumphantly at the start of World War II, will be tattered and fading by 2025, its eighth decade, and could be history by 2030.

Significantly, in 2008, the U.S. National Intelligence Council admitted for the first time that America's global power was indeed on a declining trajectory. In one of its periodic futuristic reports, Global Trends 2025, the Council cited “the transfer of global wealth and economic power now under way, roughly from West to East" and "without precedent in modern history,” as the primary factor in the decline of the “United States' relative strength -- even in the military realm.” Like many in Washington, however, the Council’s analysts anticipated a very long, very soft landing for American global preeminence, and harbored the hope that somehow the U.S. would long “retain unique military capabilities… to project military power globally” for decades to come.

No such luck. Under current projections, the United States will find itself in second place behind China (already the world's second largest economy) in economic output around 2026, and behind India by 2050. Similarly, Chinese innovation is on a trajectory toward world leadership in applied science and military technology sometime between 2020 and 2030, just as America's current supply of brilliant scientists and engineers retires, without adequate replacement by an ill-educated younger generation.

By 2020, according to current plans, the Pentagon will throw a military Hail Mary pass for a dying empire. It will launch a lethal triple canopy of advanced aerospace robotics that represents Washington's last best hope of retaining global power despite its waning economic influence. By that year, however, China's global network of communications satellites, backed by the world's most powerful supercomputers, will also be fully operational, providing Beijing with an independent platform for the weaponization of space and a powerful communications system for missile- or cyber-strikes into every quadrant of the globe.

Full article here http://www.alternet.org/world/149080/4_ ... an_empire/

Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:50 am » by **Pompanellie**

Finally the bully will be on his knees!!!! serves him right! :lol:

Wed Dec 08, 2010 4:54 am » by **Lowsix**

pompanellie wrote:Finally the bully will be on his knees!!!! serves him right!

And whatever piss-ant country you hail from,
will be laying on its back under him catching the leftovers,
which will of course serve YOU right.

namaste bitch.

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:04 am » by **Septeloid**

lowsix wrote:
namaste bitch.

That stung me and it wasn't even directed at me :lol:

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:19 am » by **Chronicnerd**

pompanellie wrote:Finally the bully will be on his knees!!!! serves him right!

As far as I know...Bully's take lunch money from the "little guys"... it is rare to see a "Bully" give money...so for anyone who is so quick to "Watch America Crumble"... here is "Food for Thought":

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/world-top-ten-doners-of-foreigner-aid-map.html

Hmmm...seems like all of the countries who are tied to the U.S. Dollar and who believe in the "free market" system give the most foreign aide...as a matter of fact...America has been the number one on this list for decades now...

... huh... you know what is funny...all of the countries who could be behind the "Fall of America" (from a political and financial perspective)...they don't seem to give much...as in they don't even show up...

So...before everyone goes out and knocks on America's last standing pillars...and before it 100% gets crippled... think about the quantity of money being sent to other countries that need food, water, medicine, housing, running water, protection, disaster relief...and then think of this world...without America and with all of the countries listed in the link above "damaged" or "collapsed" because they were tied to the U.S. Dollar.

Yeah...America falls and you will see more death, more destruction, and more suffering than you could ever imagine...and that will just be simply...from the LACK OF SUPPORT we have been giving out to the rest of the world.

You know...come to think of it...China is not on that list...doesn't even show up on the radar...yet everyone is all about the "State Democracies" and the "progressive" agenda...

If America falls...my only final satisfaction will be to watch all of the idiots who "wanted to fight the man"....complain and cry and point fingers...because everything has gone to crap...

China...is in the "top position" in regards to economy and worth...yet they don't give one one thousandth what America gives....they also have a history of killing their own population by the tens upon tens of millions of people... but...you know...that is the past man...dude...Net Nuetrality...Health Care man...like...cap and trade dude...you know for that "Global Warming" thing...save the planet...crush America...

And watch everyone's world crumble into ashes as millions upon millions of people die from natural disasters that have no relief, pandemic scale diseases without medication, and world wide starvation because there is no food...

Yeah man...dig it... it is all going to be kittens and cup cakes...

WAKE UP.... if you think America falling is going to "solve things"...then I bet you either live in a socialist country, are under the age of 25 and have NO CLUE about history (because you were taught altered history...thanks to the same people you probably voted for), or are brain damaged...

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:25 am » by **Pompanellie**

lowsix wrote:
pompanellie wrote:Finally the bully will be on his knees!!!! serves him right!

And whatever piss-ant country you hail from,
will be laying on its back under him catching the leftovers,
which will of course serve YOU right.

namaste bitch.

hahahahahaha very funny reply from someone who knows at least that America's demise is coming soon!!!! :lol:

catching leftovers ehh??? it just so happened that the truth will always prevail and here's one truth "NO ONE STAYS ON TOP LONGER IF YOU ARE RULED BY GREED AND PRIDE!"
Also shame on you Americans (by the sound of your reply I suppose you are one) you let your own government fool you and shame on your own government for they let other people (from another country or someone from your own country who does not care about the people) rule them!!!!!

thanks for calling me bithch you one hole of an ass! :clapper:

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:26 am » by **E6722maj**

' unravel with unholy speed'

- i did that at the hacienda a few times 'back in the day'

:alien:

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:29 am » by **Lowsix**

pompanellie wrote:hahahahahaha very funny reply from someone who knows at least that America's demise is coming soon!!!!
catching leftovers ehh??? it just so happened that the truth will always prevail and here's one truth "NO ONE STAYS ON TOP LONGER IF YOU ARE RULED BY GREED AND PRIDE!"
Also shame on you Americans (by the sound of your reply I suppose you are one) you let your own government fool you and shame on your own government for they let other people (from another country or someone from your own country who does not care about the people) rule them!!!!!

thanks for calling me bithch you one hole of an ass!

lol you think your dollar wont trip the shithole too?
You are way the fuck dumber than you sound then.

Congrats, thats tricky.

The last three of your PMs have worn
American sphincter necklaces.

You have about as much breathing room as your own, elected PM's.

ps... if you dont come in acting like a cunt,
you wont get treated like one.

Put that in your notebook.

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:32 am » by **Cornbread714**

Well, however you choose to interpret it, I'm afraid the original post contains some truth.

But yeah, when America falls, if it does, a whole lot of other dominos will fall, too.

I don't look forward to it.

Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:38 am » by **The57ironman**

lowsix wrote:
pompanellie wrote:hahahahahaha very funny reply from someone who knows at least that America's demise is coming soon!!!!
catching leftovers ehh??? it just so happened that the truth will always prevail and here's one truth "NO ONE STAYS ON TOP LONGER IF YOU ARE RULED BY GREED AND PRIDE!"
Also shame on you Americans (by the sound of your reply I suppose you are one) you let your own government fool you and shame on your own government for they let other people (from another country or someone from your own country who does not care about the people) rule them!!!!!

thanks for calling me bithch you one hole of an ass!

lol you think your dollar wont trip the shithole too?
You are way the fuck dumber than you sound then.

Congrats, thats tricky.

The last three of your PMs have worn
American sphincter necklaces.

You have about as much breathing room as your own, elected PM's.

ps... if you dont come in acting like a cunt,
you wont get treated like one.

Put that in your notebook.

fact is , it ain't america or americans ..... the NWO has been planning this sh*t forever