You’re right about the JDPON Don stuff, it isn’t something serious, and I wasn’t being serious about it. Trump is very much a symptom of deep rooted issues, not the cause. I think this is more a sign of the entire US apparatus just crumbling, they can no longer project the global power they once held, but there is still a world of difference between “the empire is no longer as powerful as it was at its peak” and “the empire has collapsed.”
Yeah, i absolutely see the decline, but this can take ages. The British Empire has been in decline for a century, is only a shadow of what it was before the world wars and yet is still a major nuclear power that is engaged in imperialist projects all over the globe, and not only as an accomplice to the US. The capacity of the USA for violence is gigantic, and it will not go away overnight no matter how much Trump and Hegseth fuck up in picking fights and allocating troops and how much damage Iran does in fighting back. This war will likely cause wounds that never fully heal, but they will not slay the beast.
You’re right about the JDPON Don stuff, it isn’t something serious, and I wasn’t being serious about it. Trump is very much a symptom of deep rooted issues, not the cause. I think this is more a sign of the entire US apparatus just crumbling, they can no longer project the global power they once held, but there is still a world of difference between “the empire is no longer as powerful as it was at its peak” and “the empire has collapsed.”
Yeah, i absolutely see the decline, but this can take ages. The British Empire has been in decline for a century, is only a shadow of what it was before the world wars and yet is still a major nuclear power that is engaged in imperialist projects all over the globe, and not only as an accomplice to the US. The capacity of the USA for violence is gigantic, and it will not go away overnight no matter how much Trump and Hegseth fuck up in picking fights and allocating troops and how much damage Iran does in fighting back. This war will likely cause wounds that never fully heal, but they will not slay the beast.