On What is to Come... [Remastered!]
And Why time has run out!
[Addendum: This is a Remastered version of my first-ever post on this Stack! I have touched it up & added some extra material as well.
I felt the need to do this since:
(1) The Global Situation has deteriorated so rapidly in recent weeks & months, &
(2) With the rebranding of the Stack in motion, this first essay I ever wrote could use a 'glow up' as well to better account for current Global crises & their fallout.
Therefore, this piece's DOOM has been substantially' Super-sized' for your reading displeasure! Enjoy, Dear Reader(s)! ]
Doomsday Glimpse, photograph: Imaginary scene of America's doom, eerie visuals, intense colors, capturing the essence of a dystopian future.
“And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.”~The Star Spangled Banner; Third Verse.
There will be no Happy Ending to the American story, for there can't be one:
Today, this land of some 340+ million, fractured into various competing ideologies, ethnicities, etc., has no unifying operant principle to draw upon. No such principle remains. And even if it does, it has deteriorated to irrelevance.
'American leadership,' meanwhile, is an utter basket case. No longer do the various nations & people of the world buy into what the Americans are selling.
The world sees what sort of 'Human rights' the Americans are defending when they wantonly endorse the most Vile Crimes:
On the International stage, the US is more isolated than it has ever been, as it seeks to justify 'Israeli crimes' while simultaneously pointing fingers at the Russians.
Eurasia, Africa & the wider Global South see through the whole facade as the mythology of American' morality & leadership' suffers its final death blow.
Gone are the days when 'The Shining City on a Hill' could also draw upon its economic prowess, scientific ingenuity, etc. These exist, no doubt, but only in an inertial sense.
White men, the key to the Blue Collar Base that built American industry & made it into the 'workshop of the world,' are on the retreat everywhere:
Discriminatory hiring, mockery, ostracism, etc., have all played a part, but so has voluntary dissociation. Many don't wish to play for 'Team USA' anymore.
Thus, gone are the days when America's actual, physical economy (manufacturing, mining, farming, etc.) could stand alone without peers.
Actual Energy Use in the United States of America graphed against the Henry Adams Curve, which outlines a 7% annual growth in energy usage per capita. America's energy consumption stopped following the pattern sometime in the 1970s. The 'Real Economy' of manufactured goods & physical entities stagnated in that period. What we have today, meanwhile, is a 'funny money' service-oriented economy where GDP numbers (however they are measured) are less & less relevant owing to their inability to document the stagnation in production & manufacturing mentioned earlier. SOURCE: https://rootsofprogress.org/where-is-my-flying-car
Meanwhile, The Great American institutions of old (Harvard, Princeton, etc.) retain Vestigial amounts of renown & stature, primarily because of past exploits and older alumni' holding the line.' Their exploits are well known.
However, The evangelizing of these places & their merits to American life fell flat long ago. Therefore, they persist primarily through Bureaucratic meddling. Thus, we see the Regime try (& fail) to prop them up with evermore nauseously ridiculous gimmicks:
Sometimes this involves 'nonsense degrees.' At other times, we see wanton racism against various 'privileged' groups (primarily White, especially White men). At still others, we see vile satanic rituals given the green light.
'Higher Learning' today in the US (& the West) is thus primarily a sham.
The various 'graduates' from these places are all incompetent! As the eminent Andrei Martyanov put it rather crudely: 'It is Garbage In & Garbage Out!'
This sham education system has utterly corrupted the rest of society, be it Civic life, moral & religious obligations, etc.
Americans today live in a nation that pays mere 'lip service' to its Christian Heritage while all manner of immorality, deceit & corruption reigns Supreme.
As the 'Fish rots from the head down,' so too do Americans find their nation increasingly resembling more 'The Great Satan.'
The Leadership is already utterly Captured, bent & moulded by the whims & fancies of various lobbyists, special interests & corporations.
The American people, therefore, are forgotten & tossed to the wayside as the engine of the Empire churns onward with its pointless Wars & destruction.
These pointless conflicts don't merely cost Americans 'Blood & treasure.' They also create intractable enmities with people around the world. This hostility will inevitably escalate to Global War, as we see LIVE happening now!
However, the corrupt & banal 'leadership tells us not to worry. The so-called 'exceptional nation' will make 'short work of the Eurasian savages' should they be given a blank cheque & free reign to 'bring to heel' said 'beastly horde.'
Even here, the rot is terminal. The United States of America has no such ability!
College Enrollment has stagnated decisively. Faith in the institution of ‘Higher learning’ has evaporated. American Universities today are an utter Basket Case. SOURCE: https://educationdata.org/college-enrollment-statistics
Today, this 'exceptional nation' accounts for a mere 1/20ᵗʰ of global steel production. The "job-stealing" Chinese, meanwhile? They account for well over half of said global production. In effect, the disparity is greater than 10 to 1.
As the backbone of the *Physical* Economy, the pursuits above are vital to any War effort. So what happens when 'the other team' bests you on these fronts, from the get-go, before any Military Mobilization)?
Tanks, Jets, Artillery, etc., in mere weeks and months, will, by sheer numbers alone, overwhelm any 'qualitatively superior' American counterpart easily. It will not be a 'War' but a *Slaughter*.
As Europe slides back once more to what it has always been for most of Human History (i.e. an irrelevant backwater), so too do the Americans follow closely behind as the Western world proper begins the march towards its Final War and Annihilation.
The 'exceptional nation' nevertheless insists that its Hegemony remains unquestioned & unchallenged. Neoconservative dogmas prevail: that American interventionism is without limit and is almost a 'sacred' ritual that is to be 'inflicted upon all nations.'
However, this feral lust for violence is only as good as the expeditionary force (comprised mainly of 18-29-year-old White boys) being willing, able and ready to continue serving a crumbling empire.
Meanwhile, the Regime's disdain for said 'White Trash' grows stronger daily. It is, therefore, a losing proposition, almost deterministically so.
Why do the Americans insist on calling themselves the "strongest fighting force ever put together in the history of man"?
Simply put, there is nothing left but The Lie. The Empire finds itself in Geopolitical Zugzwang. Any move from now onward (be it military, political, etc.) makes the coming *Slaughter* all the more inevitable!
The Global Order, as we once knew it, is Dead. 'Imperial overstretch' is HERE, for too many Latent fronts are going Kinetic. 'Death by a Thousand Cuts' looms closer as the Regime panics & stutters.
The state of Global Shipping at present. Yemen’s Ansarullah are enacting a de facto Blockade of the Bab-el-Mandeb Straits, rerouting the majority of ‘Israeli’ & Western shipping away to the longer route transiting via The Cape of Good Hope. The regime has made noises about ‘doing something’ to stop this, but Operation Prosperity Guardian fell flat & it appears that not much else can be done. If so, the regime has completely lost control of Global Shipping & are incapable of keeping the Trade Routes Open, Secure & Running. This then, is the official end of American Seapower. For, the US Navy is utterly useless if it is incapable of keeping the Trade routes secure!
SOURCE: https://www.flexport.com/blog/global-ocean-carriers-halt-red-sea-transits-what-to-expect/
As Russia bests Ukraine on the East European Steppe, Israel approaches a Strategic Defeat against the Axis of Resistance & China lusts for Taiwan, it is straightforward for even the most diehard 'Regime-bot' to see the obvious:
The United States of America is no longer the Sole Superpower.
Some have said that 'Multipolarity' has officially begun, while others think that we are on the verge of such a world. Regardless of who is right, one thing is sure: Great Power conflict has arrived & is here to stay.
Russia, China & the United States of America are the key players, with the former two pitted squarely against the latter. In this struggle, all indications are that the Americans are buckling rapidly.
Whether there will even be a legitimate election in 2024 is doubtful as domestic anxiety across the nation mounts. 1968 & its turmoil will look like a Picnic once said anxiety translates into kinetic action.
This ordeal has already begun to take shape as the American people, in record numbers, fear that the Second Civil War is near.
If so, we can add that to a long list of DOOMs that will Tragically end the United States as a viable political entity once Domestic & international DOOMs converge.
Already incapable of waging a conventional war for a maximum of a few months (should it involve peers, & be high intensity), America is in deep trouble.
It lacks Industry & manpower (for the reasons above), but now it is also beginning to lose its vaunted 'Soft Power.' If so, it will soon also lack Morale.
As noted earlier, Young White Men will not fight for a Regime that:
Hates them,
Supports Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide, &
Doesn’t stand for the values & mores that it claims to uphold.
Whoever remains in the Regime's military either knows this outright or will soon experience what it means to lack personnel in even the most basic categories.
American decline of this sort ensures Tragedy, followed by Conquest at the hands of the Eurasian powers. Time is fast running out.
Enlistment numbers have steadily dropped for the past 40 years. More than 148,318 people enlisted in the US armed forces in 2020, a 59% decline from 1980. This is the smallest US military force in well over 70 years, going back to pre-WW II numbers. SOURCE: https://usafacts.org/articles/is-military-enlistment-down/
In his book 'Why the West Can't Win,' the eminent Dr. Fadi Lama makes it crystal clear that the 'Golden Billion' has run its course & its 'peace dividend' has dried up:
The 4.5-5 billion Eurasians will inevitably dwarf the 340+ million or so Americans. It does not matter if we add 450-500 million Europeans or 200 million from the Asian satrapies (i.e., Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan).
It was ultimately a matter of time until the West regressed to its historical status as a backwater to the Eurasian Heartland, as demography, production yields, etc., all decisively turned against it. That moment, that concrete point in time, is HERE.
If so, The Global Tragedy of Thermonuclear War is near!
Given its lack of ability to conduct a conventional war, the Americans are Nuclear-biased, & so will be the party most likely to launch surprise Thermonuclear Strikes to pre-emptively murder hundreds of millions of Eurasians.
Such an outcome only ends in one way: The destruction of the Continental United States in response, & Sino-Russian forces going door to door in CONUS-proper, physically removing those peoples that inflicted upon them said horrors.
As the Empire falls, its Citizenry will find itself enslaved, looted, raped, pillaged & violated, similar to the Citizenry of Empires past, now Fallen.
Words do not yet exist to speak appropriately about Crimes that all parties will commit, nor the ensuing Human Suffering.
Historians can draw Analogies from those before us: Those peoples who lived through the barbarisms following the Fall of their respective societies.
But in terms of scale & scope, Nuclear War and its implications are a complete novelty.
Not because of the sheer magnitude of lives lost, nor the wails & screams of suffering from the flayed, nor even the zombies drowning themselves out of dehydration, shuffling to their deaths:
No, it is because Nuclear War will mark a paradigm shift of Humanity-proper.
Behaviors like Infanticide, Cannibalism, Necrophilia, Bestiality, Gang-rape, etc., will no longer be Vile but rather 'instrumental toward survival sometimes.'
'Humanity' as we know it will come to an End.
City Engulfed, digital art: NYC skyline with a mushroom cloud, surreal colors, ominous atmosphere, symbolizing a nuclear attack.
To call said 'survivors' Human would be repugnant to any man of moral fibre/character because Nuclear War's natural consequence will be the Robbing of Mankind's Humanity and its replacement with Post-human Operant principles.
Some still Hope this is ludicrous, that no such Nightmare can ever instantiate. That 'cooler and smarter heads will prevail!'
To them, I say: You are already in said Nightmare; you have not realized it yet.
Many analysts, writers, etc., will say otherwise. They will try & give you, Dear Reader(s), False Hope. You will not get one iota of that here.
The stakes are high, & I shall not 'sugarcoat things' like many others do:
In no time in Human History has there been a society which has not tapped into its weapons' stockpiles (however marginally or in its entirety) during wartime.
The Use of Nuclear Weapons is thus inevitable, and so is Nuclear War by Consequence.
…The DOOM cometh!
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I’m older and wiser at 54. I’m a retired US Army officer, and as much as I hate to agree with you you’re absolutely right. Also I must compliment you on excellent writing sir. Very well written.
Would you attribute the aggregated behavior of the occupational Western ruling class since the New Dealers more to a vitriolic hatred of their native traditions and populations so monumental that they are willing to destroy themselves to destroy the object of their hatred, or more to pure arrogance, delusion, and stupidity?