America’s Achilles’ Heels
— American Empire’s Inevitable Fall
OUR SITUATION
What’s coming?
Economic and societal catastrophe.
The president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, has gotten the nation involved in a war in the Middle East which all experts warn that the U.S. will lose. That is unless they resort to using nuclear weapons against Iran — a terrifying thought — especially with the current kleptocracy in charge of the White House.
We are in terrifying times.
What else are we looking at?
The world is facing a global economic upheaval unlike anything we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.
The world’s primary currency, the U.S. dollar (USD), has lost both its standing and relevance. Today the USD stands in debt to the tune of $38 trillion (at time of this writing). The odds of the U.S. finding other nations to continue financing its debt grow slimmer every day. Japan and China, two of the U.S.’s largest treasury lenders, aren’t lending anymore. They’ve been selling U.S. treasury holdings in record numbers this past year and the pace has accelerated in recent months. The reluctance of other developed nations to purchase U.S. debt is not a small inconvenience. It is both economically and fiscally devastating.
What does it mean for Americans? It means that our dollar isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on, is impossibly indebted with no way of paying it back, and has lost all creditors willing to lend them any more money to wedge against their debt; which means if the USD loses its privileged status as the world’s primary global currency, (which it will and it is), then it will lose its inflated value that Americans are so used to taking for granted.
It means inflation and costs will simultaneously sky rocket — all while Americans’ debt continues to balloon, more jobs continue to be lost to AI, and the AI stock market bubble pops.
More Americans will be homeless, jobless, and hopeless. More will be desperate. Perhaps more will be angry. Definitely more will be broken underneath the foot of The Establishment’s boots.
WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE
The less money you have the more that escalating higher prices are going to affect you. The majority of us are about to face an economic crash and depression unlike this nation’s ever seen before. It will put the 1929 stock market crash and 1930s global depression to shame.
We are not ready for this.
Americans are struggling financially today while eighty percent of the stock market is owned by just ten percent of the nation’s wealthiest.
Additionally, the stock market is superficially inflated due to the AI investment bubble — which is about to burst. When it does, it will bring down all illusions. Its crash will be felt by everyone in the world but it will be detrimental to Americans. The stock market will burst due to inflated AI values, the USD will lose much, if not most, of its value — leaving Americans at the mercy of astronomical costs alongside deregulated and unfettered capitalism.
But don’t worry. That top 10% of the wealthiest? They won’t be hurt. And they’ll take care of the rest of us; just like they’ve done with universal health care, federal food assistance, higher education, student loan debt, public education, and on.
DENIAL OR WISHFUL, MAGICAL THINKING WON’T SAVE US
Neocons, warmongers, military industrial technocrats, oligarchs, Christian Zionists, along with the Epstein class, are all in support of the U.S.-Israel war against Iran. They’re all politically in bed together. They’re all invested in the military industrial complex and the for-profit industrial prison system. They make bank from war and off the suffering of the rest of us. They aren’t feeling any pain.
They’re not going to leave the White House if they lose the next election.
But we won’t have to worry about that scenario because the likelier scenarios are that (1) Americans won’t be saved by the next presidential election because it will be rigged; or else (2) the Republicans will claim an emergency and cancel the election before its even held; thus holding onto power in DC. Either way, the majority of Americans are not prepared for what’s to come.
We are essentially doomed to ride this nightmare out.
IT’S A LONG ROAD OUT OF DODGE
The political and economic effects of this war will be felt forever.
East Asia (the Middle East) will never be the same. Friendships and allies will shift and dissolve. America will not be able to meddle in that region again — if she survives as a nation.
The United States could collapse from its decades of fiscal irresponsibility and upcoming economic crises. Combine this with escalating attacks throughout American society against its own people — all while it simultaneously explodes against the outside world — and we have a perfect storm: both an implosion and an explosion at the same time.
The rest of the world will survive America’s fall better than those trapped behind her walls. Everyone stuck within U.S. borders will face hardships unimaginable — effects of the alchemy between the nation’s collapse and the cruelty of its disassociated and kleptocratic rulers.
To wonder if the United States can survive its current geopolitical-economic situation is not being hyperbolic. It’s being sensible. To ignore the truly precarious situation of the U.S.’s position is not wise. It’s foolish.
A TOXIC AND DYSFUNCTIONAL SYSTEM
WE LIVE INSIDE A DYSFUNCTIONAL, TOXIC SYSTEM WHICH HARMS AND/OR DESTROYS ITS SUPPORTING MEMBERS WHILE IDOLIZING AND WORSHIPPING ITS MINORITY MALIGNANT MEMBERS — TO THE DETRIMENT OF ALL ITS MEMBERS.
The United States and the whole world is dealing with a malignant narcissistic bully who’s standing on top of the tallest hill swinging his club at everyone around while he’s crushing all those who are under him and hitting hard whoever gets in his way.
The entire world is having to navigate operating within a toxic, dysfunctional, predatory and very powerful system of a sick class of detached individuals who entertain themselves by playing games with the rest of our lives. Trump is aided not only by his enablers, but also by The Establishment — the corrupt and failing system which brought him into power.
The American Empire is in a rapid decline whose complete destruction through crash and fall is inevitable. Not only is it inevitable; it will be irreversible. America’s rulers are so out of touch — they are either in denial, blind to the reality, or they’re simply evil. The likelihood that they will suddenly wake up and realize the full extent of horrors they’re committing against others is unlikely.
Unless America’s rulers have miraculous epiphanies from heaven which brings them to their senses and forces them to change course, the world is doomed to watch and experience the hell on earth they’re creating.
The only question now is when, with what details, and exactly how it all goes down.
DAYS OF RECKONING
Because the United States cannot get honest with itself about its history, it still pushes myths about its superiority over others. Many in the U.S. believe that America is the greatest nation on earth. Their worldviews are fed by biased news corporations and relentless American propaganda which props up capitalism and business, profit over people, 24/7, day after day. In addition, their education didn’t prepare them for the need to critically interpret information. In fact, it dumbed them down (some would argue purposely so) by preparing them only for work and career rather than liberal arts and humanities. It’s only through critical thinking and analysis found in courses like these that education serves its true purpose: preparing the individual to think critically, with sound reasoning and analysis. This type of learning helps induce the love of learning; to never grow bored of being curious, of questioning, exploring, and researching to find answers. The majority of American students don’t get this type of education and the day of reckoning has arrived.
No one warned them that they would need these skills to test false narratives in their daily news or else fall victim to its fallacies and false reports. No one warned them how important it is to not become apathetic to these things. They don’t have the time to figure it all out anyway. They’re trying to survive and that isn’t easy in America today. Many work multiple part-time jobs trying to keep up with living costs, but it’s a treadmill that gets steeper and more challenging each day.
The system works just as it’s supposed to — for those few at the top of the hill. It also works just as they designed it — for those trapped beneath them.
THERE’S NOT ENOUGH TIME FOR THE WORKING POOR
The majority of people in America are living to work with no life left for themselves or their families because there’s no time left after work. Many Americans don’t have time for anything else but attempts at rest and recovery to get ready for the next day’s work. There aren’t enough hours available in a day to work enough to pay the necessary bills just to live. No one has time to figure out what’s truth and what’s not truth anymore. It’s too late for that in this late stage capitalism. It has become predatory, leaving people today forced to only focus on survival in order to make it to tomorrow or next week.
The economic machine now feeds on the very people it should be serving. This is so it can provide the few at the top with exorbitant riches and extravagant life styles. Public services and housing are increasingly bought up by the private sector, by corporations and the wealthy, who only play for pay and whose purpose is infinite growth and higher profits at the expense of human lives.
THEY. DON’T. CARE.
It is this class of people, the Epstein class, the oligarchs and ultra wealthy, the politically powerful and their circles, who have no idea — no understanding, no empathy or compassion — for how the majority of people have to live. It appears that their plans for the rest of the world is either that we kill each other off in wars or we suffer from climate catastrophes and die, or both. They don’t care. They have their bunkers and spaceships. They’re creating “freedom cities” which they will privately own and which others will slave in. Think of tenant farming post-Reconstruction and into the Jim Crow Era. Picture company towns, company stores, and the inescapable traps the working poor were forced to endure. Add to this vision our present-day-ever-growing-dystopian-nightmare. This is what we’re facing in America. There is a future hellscape on the horizon ahead. It is what’s in store for some of us who survive or manage to escape from being imprisoned in one of the for-profit concentration camps they’re rapidly building and expanding across the U.S.
The minority 10% don’t need to concern themselves with any of this since they will either be owners of “Freedom cities” themselves and/or they’ll have underground bunkers or homes in outer space for themselves and their families. Now isn’t that nice for them.
CREATING ARMAGEDDON
— THEY DON’T CARE THAT THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEF SYSTEMS WILL KILL US ALL WHILE ALSO DESTROYING PLANET EARTH
WAR AGAINST IRAN
It’s okay for the majority of the world’s population to suffer and die because of the religiously zealot minorities. If you agree with this you must be one of them because the rest of us aren’t okay with it.
The United States and Israel are now involved in an aggressive war against Iran. The U.S. didn’t have to get involved. It didn’t have to start this war. There was no imminent threat to the U.S.. Rules of international law be damned, the U.S. will do what the U.S. wants no matter who it hurts or what it harms. This is part of the “America First” ideology which foolishly believes it needs no one else.
In this second Trump administration, the U.S. no longer finds it necessary to hide that it will no longer help anyone else — unless there’s a benefit for themselves somewhere within the arrangement. The United States is blatantly transactional now. It behaves so shamelessly as if there is nothing wrong with it.
Meanwhile, we’ve all dealt with bullies in one way or another. We all know what comes next if the bully doesn’t get his way. He’ll explode and blame everyone else, not caring who he lashes out against nor who or what he harms.
Donald Trump is sending thousands of American troops to the Persian Gulf to prepare for a suicidal attack on Iranian soil. This will end up with “unacceptable numbers” of Americans “killed in action” (KIA) and “unacceptable numbers” of American prisoners of war (POW); (as if there exists any “acceptable numbers” of KIA or POW). These are not opinions. These are analyses which military experts are concluding. They are publicly warning against such idiocy and irreversible harm. They are being ignored by the Trump regime.
Despite what the U.S. mainstream media has been portraying across American television screens, Iran is winning this war and it holds the upper hand. Iran’s missiles and drones have breached Israel’s fabled “Iron Dome”, leaving the U.S.-Israel Axis powers vulnerable and exposed to military attacks. Roughly one third of all ballistic missiles and drones that Iran launches against Israel and other targeted sites in the Gulf region are getting through the so-called “Iron Dome”, (Israel’s and the U.S.’ mythologized psychological comfort blanket for their populations against targeted cities and villages).
Iran’s position is favorable for winning a war of attrition. The longer the war drags out, the better for Iran and to the detriment of the U.S. and Israel. Iran’s weapons are cheap to make with additional benefits of (1) flexibility in use of location and (2) variety in effective ranges of distance.
The U.S. and Israel are already low on weapons and their costs are astronomically more expensive to make compared to Iran’s $20,000 to $50,000 drones and missiles. The types of weapons being utilized by the U.S.-Israel Axis are outdated for modern warfare. Their costs are way too expensive and unsustainable in a long war. There’s no way the U.S. can afford using these type weapons in a drawn out war of attrition. They can’t afford it, they can’t make enough of them fast enough, and they aren’t as effective in today’s modern warfare as Iran’s expansive missile and drone armory.
If the U.S. and Israel refuse to end their war against Iran, they will both be destroyed in the end.
This trajectory is unavoidable — unless they do the unthinkable — and use nuclear weapons against Iran.
Both the U.S. and Israel are behaving like imperialistic rogue nations: attacking other nations simply because they want to. (Sound like Russia, anyone?) If it was the last remaining option available on the losing side of this war, it’s possible that either the United States or Israel would use nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, with the way things are playing out, this nightmare scenario doesn’t look too far fetched for the fascist Trump kleptocracy or for the fascist Netanyahu government.
Based on their histories the probabilities are that the United States and Israel will destroy whoever and whatever gets in their way. Both have their fingers on the big red button with fewer options available to them each day the war rages on. Let’s hope something stops them from going nuke before such a fatal catastrophe like this happens.
THE UNITED STATES’ DOUBLE ACHILLES’ HEELS
Fiscally, the U.S.’ debt is one of their Achilles’ heels.
The U.S. has had the privilege of holding the world’s primary currency, the U.S. dollar (USD) for decades. But America’s repetitive fiscal crisis, spending more money than it raises in taxes year after year, will not be so easily financed this year. The U.S. has taken for granted the ease at which they could borrow from other countries willing to invest in their treasury, such as the Gulf nation states, Japan and China, among others.
But this has changed now.
Today there is no sensible nation in the world who would buy U.S. Treasury stock as a safe investment for their people. In fact, nations have been dumping U.S. Treasury stocks this past year. They are not going to continue financing U.S. debt. It’s not a sensible investment. The U.S. is in debt over its head. They are in a war of attrition that will drag out, costing billions upon billions more. They hold the losing hand for winning the war. Russia, China, and Turkey have already chosen the side of Iran. Most nations are trying to remain neutral, but with the way this “military excursion” (Trump’s term for it so he doesn’t call it what it is: war) is already blowing up into World War III, neutrality is no longer a viable option.
The U.S.-Israel war against Iran began on February 28th. Their combined attacks on Iran’s military and civilian infrastructure (war crimes), along with Israel’s attacks in Syria and southern Lebanon — as well as Israel’s displacement and killing, (Israel’s ethnic cleansing and genocide), of the Palestinian people in Gaza, Jerusalem, and the West Bank — has created the perfect mix for the beginnings of World War III. Gulf nations like Turkey are choosing sides and declaring allies. Soon the entire world will be forced to choose their side in history. There is no middle ground.
Meanwhile the BRICS alliance has brilliantly created a parallel economic system of operating within its members’ nation states. They don’t need the USD any longer to function like they used to. They trade among BRICS’ nations using their own currencies, not the U.S. dollar which has been weaponized by U.S. presidents and their foreign policies for decades. The U.S. economic sanctions imposed against a third of all nations has forced them to find alternatives for survival. And they have. The U.S. has been privileged to hold the world’s primary global currency for decades, but this is no longer the case.
SEX ABUSE SCANDAL — THE EPSTEIN CLASS — AMID ECONOMIC CRISIS AND FALL OF THE USD
The U.S. is not only dealing with fiscal crisis. There are two more catastrophes which the world is watching the U.S. go through. One is the worst sexual abuse and human trafficking scandal in history. The other is the failed state of the U.S. economy.
HISTORY’S WORST KNOWN GLOBAL SEX AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING SCANDAL — The United States’ second and fatal Achilles’ heel
The Epstein class scandal, which directly involves Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, and many more of the richest and most powerful people in our culture threatens the careers and lives of everyone involved.
Though the war against Iran provides some distraction from the Epstein files, the scandal is not going away and neither are the eventual consequences. One day those consequences will be accounted for and all those involved will be held to the shame and punishment they rightly deserve. These consequences are inevitable. The truth is out and historians have already begun writing about it.
There will be a reckoning one day soon. The Epstein class of elites are exposed. As long as Americans don’t allow The Establishment to drown the scandal out into the oblivion of too much chaos and noise, the downfall and reckoning of The Epstein Class is only a matter of time — and it will bring down those who are most deeply involved.
THE FAILING U.S. ECONOMY IS FINALLY CRASHING
The third huge problem for the American empire is their failing economy. The lies of trickle down economics brought in with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s has led to unrestrained, predatory capitalism, tax cuts for corporations and the richest — many who pay nothing to very little in taxes — a growing population of working poor who can no longer afford housing, health care, food, and transportation. All this is combined with rising inflation and no end in sight as the USD continues to fall.
The U.S. is sitting on a ticking economic time bomb, which if left to its current trajectory, will inevitably explode. Being governed by the Trump regime, its present trajectory is inevitable. Those in power, blind to their own avarice and ignorance, will not change course as long as they hold power. We mustn’t expect them to. Unrealistic expectations are an emotional snare. Save your time and energy for a more useful exercise. There is too little time and energy left for waste.
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ITS ENABLERS
Who are ‘they’? Who are ‘The Establishment’ and who are ‘its enablers’? They are not only MAGAs, Trump cultists, and Republicans currently in political office. They includes the Epstein class and the neoliberals who’ve been playing both sides of the centrist coin against the American people for far too long.
Most Americans can now see through the futility and folly of the neoliberals’ centrist positioning which serves the interests of corporations and profits over people. Most Americans can also see through the folly of the neocon war mongers who want endless wars. Most Americans can see through the tangled web which ties the industrial military machine and modern technology to a few billionaire sociopaths who are not capable of basic human characteristics like empathy for others or compassion for the suffering and oppressed. They only want more; more for themselves and the few inside their circle. The rest of us can just die. They don’t care.
THEY. DON’T. CARE.
Where are the jobs for all those who’ve been laid off or fired by the Trump regime and DOGE? Where are the jobs going to come from as we watch AI continue to develop and take on more tasks and activities which humans are usually paid to do? What kind of near future are Americans looking at when so many have lost work, have no job, no income, no health care, no food, no transportation, and no home to live in? Is the Trump regime purposely arranging things for societal collapse in the U.S. or are they so stupid, so out of touch with the rest of us, that they don’t see the fast moving train speeding down the tracks while the rest of us are all tied onto the tracks — staring deer-eyed, just waiting for it to run over us?
Americans are getting hit. They’re getting hit today and they’re going to get hit worse again tomorrow. There’s no way out unless it’s through leaving — emigrating to another country to avoid the hell which we see and know is coming. Most of us we can’t afford to leave or are we’re unwilling to leave our homes and families; yet there will be some who still manage to get out in time.
Staying involves going through definite financial and economic crises which will be unavoidable. It involves possibly being included in the planned, upcoming, massive nationwide arrests and imprisonment of both civilians and citizens. They are coming for “the home-growns” — for political opponents, dissidents, organizers, and activists. They keep telling us this. Believe them. For-profit detention facilities (concentration camps) are being built all across America with billions of budgeted dollars planned for this year and the next. For those who can’t escape, there will be no due process, no hope for freedom; only an hour at a time of enduring inhumane treatment while lingering on through each day, hoping that life will soon somehow change and all this will magically disappear and just go away. We’ll wake up and realize it’s all just been one big bad dream.
There’s a train wreck coming, rolling down the tracks straight for us. Most of us are staring at it, watching it get closer every day as we anxiously try to plan and prepare for worst case scenarios in the not too distant future.
A NEW DAWN in A NEW ERA
Americans are waking up into a new dawn in a new day which no longer favors them.
Their loss of privilege will invert their world.
This is a new era in a new world.
The United States is no longer the unipolar hegemonic power of the world.
We are waking into a new era; a new, unknown, and anxious time.
Are most of us preparing for what’s coming next?
Or are we still sleep walking?
What are we walking into?
Things unimaginable.
Unless there’s an intervention of some sort.
For the U.S.-Israel Axis that intervention is likely the use of nuclear weapons against Iran. (God, help us.)
This would have devasting effects upon the world and its people which could be fatal for both, life of the planet and for humanity.
This must not be allowed.
The U.S.-Israel Axis can be and must be stopped.
But will we? ?
?STOP THEM.
This is an opinion article. The views expressed represent one analytical perspective on current geopolitical and economic conditions.
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