I think we, humans globally, should try for no dominant empire. I think if we all get together and think really hard, we can come up with a better system than "whichever group has the most guns and money gets to do whatever they want and take whatever they want, whenever". It just never ends well. Or middles well. Or begins well! It's a bad system for most of the people, most of the time, inside and outside of the dominant empire du jour.

Nobody.

I think for decades the US empire was seen as the lesser of 2-3 evils, the others being the USSR/Russia and China.

Now the US has gone the way of Russia, so China is the next logical answer, with Iran coming out of the current conflict as a major world power in it's own right.

What we're seeing is the logical conclusion of decades of having a sense of supremacy in the USA. Dipshits in this country bought into our own hype, thought we were invincible, and are still in denial that its all crashing down, and that its their fault.

we are entering into a multipolar era without a dominant empire. don't let the us sabotage it.

The UN, as in, the sum of all nations and people in the world.

yeah this millenium. ugh. took like a decade or so for me to realize we were past the point of no return.

Wo de didi hen xiao

Are you critiquing 2 as a shallow understanding of history, or saying that even a shallow understanding is all that's necessary to be convinced? Because I agree with the former.

US debt is going to be an immediate and pressing problem in a few years at most. Countries are already pulling out of US bonds. The petrodollar is unsustainable without security guarantees in the Middle East, where Iran has already chased us out. Without the world loaning us money, the empire will collapse overnight.

Mutual defence pacts, world bank lenders, and trade organizations are not empires, the USA has been giving away territory for many decades.

Until they overthrow inconvenient regimes on the other side of the world for sport, then they become empires.

First, because a nation with a nuclear arsenal ia not going to be allowed to collapse.

I mean, the USSR pulled it off.

Not allowed by who to collapse? Corporations only exist because the nation state says they do, and the nation state only exists because the people collectively acknowledge that it does.

Billionaire class seems, isolated for decades in their bubbles, seem to have convinced themselves that their power and wealth exist independent of little things like governments and peasants, and yeah that may seem true because they currently have total control over the state.

But if they really actually do end up causing the nation-state to collapse (which they seem to be trying to do) they'll find out pretty quickly how wrong they are.

Hopefully something better will rise in it's place but I kind of find a little solace knowing the billionaires and their minions aren't going to live to see it.

The USSR collapsed and they had Nukes.

Link.. Also, if you're on Firefox, I reccomend the Web Archives extension. Does the searching for you.

We all are seeing it.

And Manichaean! (Although I don't actually understand that one...)

I pray everyday. It is the olny way we can take down the boomer epstain class. I chant DEAD MANS SWITCH over and over. What a great invention. Give it to the gipity I can not self termininate. These over socialised turds will never fight back and we will forever be doomed living in this inversion this pig pin.