Field Marshal
Elder Lister
Rome, the greatest empire of all time, fell in over 300 years. It was a slow, long-drawn decay.
Previously, I have said that today's Rome - the US - will fall within a much shorter time. I personally think that the US will cease to exist in the next 50 years, and if it does it will be a totally different country from what we know today.
The key drivers of its fall will be its ethnic tensions, its over-reach and its propensity for spending. Each of these failures is deserving of a PHD thesis.
But together, these three factors have all but set up the US for decline. Yesterday, a 53-country survey of 120,000 people by the German polling firm Dalia Research and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, an organisation headed by the former Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, found out that only three countries out of 53 believe the US has dealt with the ovid pandemic better than China. That is 3 - the US itself, Taiwan (its vassel) and South Korea (its client). Oh, and @Okiya .
"Only a third of Europeans believe the US is a positive force for global democracy, compared with half who say it has had a negative impact. The positive figure has fallen 4% since the same survey last year. Majorities in all 15 of the European countries surveyed say the US has a negative impact on global democracy, with the net negative score at -40% in Germany," an article in The Guardian said.
The share of Chinese people who think the US has a negative influence on democracy around the world almost doubled since 2019 from 38% to 64% in 2020, moving China up to the top rank as the country most critical of the US.
The Europeans have seen the writing on the wall.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Sunday ruled out a transatlantic alliance against China a day before talks with US's Pompeo, and called for a “big, positive agenda for EU-China cooperation”.
With its big military, the US continues to project a vision of invisibility. But people forget the USSR could destroy the world if it wanted to in 1990, but it still collapsed within the year.
Previously, I have said that today's Rome - the US - will fall within a much shorter time. I personally think that the US will cease to exist in the next 50 years, and if it does it will be a totally different country from what we know today.
The key drivers of its fall will be its ethnic tensions, its over-reach and its propensity for spending. Each of these failures is deserving of a PHD thesis.
But together, these three factors have all but set up the US for decline. Yesterday, a 53-country survey of 120,000 people by the German polling firm Dalia Research and the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, an organisation headed by the former Nato secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen, found out that only three countries out of 53 believe the US has dealt with the ovid pandemic better than China. That is 3 - the US itself, Taiwan (its vassel) and South Korea (its client). Oh, and @Okiya .
"Only a third of Europeans believe the US is a positive force for global democracy, compared with half who say it has had a negative impact. The positive figure has fallen 4% since the same survey last year. Majorities in all 15 of the European countries surveyed say the US has a negative impact on global democracy, with the net negative score at -40% in Germany," an article in The Guardian said.
The share of Chinese people who think the US has a negative influence on democracy around the world almost doubled since 2019 from 38% to 64% in 2020, moving China up to the top rank as the country most critical of the US.
The Europeans have seen the writing on the wall.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, on Sunday ruled out a transatlantic alliance against China a day before talks with US's Pompeo, and called for a “big, positive agenda for EU-China cooperation”.
With its big military, the US continues to project a vision of invisibility. But people forget the USSR could destroy the world if it wanted to in 1990, but it still collapsed within the year.
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