US elites view it the same way, that’s why they’re all looting the place and developing closer relationships with the US empire’s rivals.
they want the plebs to reduce each other’s numbers.
The elites are fine. They hope that when the empire collapses they will jut split it into corpo-states.
or flee to the EU like most of them do.
No one important was there to greet him when he landed. They were actually meeting with the Iranians. Remember Trump begged China for help with the Straight of Hormuz disaster, and China didn’t even respond. Trump got so pissed off that he canceled the China trip after threatening them and as always he lied and now will be schooled by China. They will just smile and nod but behind his back do whatever they want. There is no trust in America in China especially since the US is leader in the worst anti Chinese propaganda.
China is running circles around the US and it’s regime. They have a backup plan for the backup plan and are largely independent from the US. Especially in regards to green energy, EV’s, battery technology, China is miles ahead.
They could have hung on a lot longer, but they seem to be speedrunning the decline on purpose. I think most of it’s caused by backfiring really bad attempts to slow it.
But yeah I think once the AI thing crashes it’s probably best to have a bunker for a while.
its been in decline the moment reagan came on board with his early onset dementia.
Ronnie Ray-gun ruined everything.
America was in decline years before Thwump. That’s what decades of giving in to corporate interests and denying human decency to the people does.
I think it’s fairer to say that it’s in decline because a majority of the population thought he was a good candidate.
A plurality of the people who voted, rather.
The decline accelerated with Trump but America was already declining before that.
Until a few years ago I’ve never even dreamed of seen the US fall within my lifetime, but looks like it will happen. What remains to be seen is what the US will do in its death throes, they have enough nukes to end life on Earth several times after all
Because it unequivocally is in decline?
People need to be realistic. We’ve been a poorer nation than we’ve pretended to be for a long, long time.
Like look at modern public buildings, not built to last, not like old stone and brick courthouses from the last century and the like. They’re just made with the same cheap materials as everything else.
The decline started with Nixon, got kicked up a gear by Reagan, but the first real crack in the armor was George W. Bush and his middle east boondoggles in Afghanistan and Iraq. After that the world was willing to look at it as somewhat of an erroneous event and expected cooler heads and serious people to prevail.
Now that instead of serious people prevailing, we’ve been spinning down the drain, and that’s literally the plan. The wholesale dismantling of US democracy was crowed from the rooftops as Project 2025.
The serious people in other countries aren’t going to be fooled again.
To quote George W. Bush “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, sh–, uhhh, you can’t fool me again.”
If you grew up in a place called the Rust Belt this may not come as a surprise.
“You can tell by the way it is.”
That’s pretty neat
China Increasingly Views America as an Empire in Decline
I’m pretty sure China knew this since Reagan, by Bush Jr. it was undeniable.
Our government has proven to be untenable and should be dismantled. Balkanization is preferable to our current state… the State governments duplicate much of what the Federals do already. I don’t think even a constitutional convention can divert the inevitable.
Any government that elected Trump twice is long dead and rotten to the core, USA is a dead man walking.
Yes, I know some organization(s) says different, and claims we are not corrupt. But… we still are. Legalized bribery isn’t going to change anything, the end results are exactly the same.
Nixon; Watergate.
Reagan: Iran Contra.
Bush Jr. Iraq invasion.
Trump: Iran war causing the worst oil crisis in history.The tendency towards ever bigger illegal actions by Republican presidents is insane.
Trump: Iran war causing the worst oil crisis in history.
And even that’s just to distract the world from Trump’s visits to Epstein island to rape children.
Not to mention the adults he’s raped, the insurrection against the US he led, or the myriad of other crimes he commits on a daily fucking basis.
Exactly, Trump doesn’t give a shit about the harm he is doing to others, if it benefits himself.
Starting a war and letting thousands die, is an absolute nothing burger to him. He is a malignant narcissist the worst form psychopath there is.
Just like he doesn’t care that he was taking food stamps away from families with children, and that he has forced millions off medicare.
He doesn’t give a shit either about the children he has probably raped, and allegedly even killed.
He has convinced himself that he is entitled to do all the shit he is doing, merely because he can. Might makes right is an insane attitude. 😡
That’s a cool fantasy but China was barely a player during Reagan. I doubt they saw it that way. In fact I think they were probably quite happy about the USA doing economically well overall given most of their growth depended on production for and exports to the USA at the time. Pressured by the Soviet Union during the 70s, trade agreements with the USA were a god sent.
If we’re talking about decline China was concerned with it’s probably the decline of the Soviet Union. Once that was gone they were fully occupied tightening trade relationships around the world and were likely hoping everyone would keep growing and keep trading. That was until Xi came into power. He sees things very differently, apparently.
Not only China, my friends, not only China.
Maybe it is even the other way round: it’s only the US which does not see the US in decline.
As an American, it’s not that uncommon for people here to think America is in decline. The corpo media and most politicians will never admit it, but there is no metric in which average citizen does not see things getting worse.
The main difference is that most Americans lack the global perspective to realize how serious and permanent this decline is. They don’t understand that things will never return to how they used to be.
They don’t understand that things will never return to how they used to be.
They also fail to understand how much worse things are going to get from here before they even marginally get better again.
Our aging infrastructure simply won’t end up having enough resources to be shored up to modern standards, and a lot of the country will start living with rolling blackouts and power for only short stretches in the day as that will end up being the only amount of power the failing grid can support without burning cities down. This will be exacerbated quickly by AI buildout.
The blackouts can also double as a way to censor the internet, adding new controls to the networks while power is down for everyone else, and when things come back online, it’s more and more tightly controlled.
A few years ago I saw a very old logging truck filled with logs stuck in the middle of a small city street for two days while it got repaired so it could be moved. Just wait until half of our roads are clogged with dead vehicles that we no longer have the resources or tools to move because all other big industrial vehicles have broken down as well. How long before every street is littered with dead vehicles we can no longer afford to move and Americans are forced into walking and cycling to get around them since major arterial roads may not be completely blocked.
Food will be scarce and costly, we don’t have a rural landowning population that can grow their own food anymore, especially as a lot of private land has been poisoned and isn’t fit to grow food on. Hell, if you have an old septic tank, you have to be sure you know exactly where it is and plant food well away from it, if you even have the room since those things can take up a lot of space underground.
Further, when septic tanks, sewers, and water systems fail to be maintained, we may have to resort to old style outhouses, which will further poison towns and cities until it becomes a massive public health hazard that nothing will be done about because our country is too broke. Laws that prevent citizens from collecting rainwater will be increasingly seen as draconian since rainfall will be one of the few (relatively) sources of clean water available, and even after collection it needs purifying with boiling and a small amount of bleach.
We are so deeply and absolutely fucked.
As an American, all I have to say is…. Yep
Anyone who has two braincells and reads the news is aware the US is crashing like General Grievous’s ship on Coruscant
No need to worry, we’re still flying half a country
Except there won’t be a happy landing…
Fittingly, it was only a happy landing for the ones who crashed it.
Because they have eyes?
