The Collapse of America: What History Teaches Us About the Rise and Fall of Empires. Prof. Alfred McCoy
At some point in time, every party ends ..... and last one out is a rotten egg. If you're in the USA, get out while you still can.
By Michael Welch and Prof Alfred McCoy
Global Research, August 21, 2022
Theme: GLOBAL RESEARCH NEWS HOUR, History, Oil and Energy, Science, US NATO War Agenda
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(Originally published Nov 20, 2021)
“I wonder if the Emperor Honorius watching the Vizigoths coming over the seventh hill truly realized that the Roman Empire was about to fall. This is just another page in history isn’t it? Will this be the end of our civilization?”
– Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek the Next Generation [1]
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As thousands of civilian contractors and hundreds of soldiers hustled to get out of Afghanistan by August 31 of this year, and as the formerly defeated Taliban began to re-establish their toe hold in the locations they once inhabited, there is one inescapable conclusion one could come to. And I can assure you that after nearly two decades of the U.S. occupation there, over a trillion dollars in military spending, and over 100,000 civilians killed or injured, the first word out of a sane individual’s mouth will not be victory! [2]
Afghanistan would only be the latest in a series of military accomplishments that have proved expensive both in terms of money and in terms of bloodshed. Iraq has proven to be a disaster where President George W Bush early on declared it victory. They are still at it in Syria ten years after the beginning of the civil war there was initiated with U.S. help. U.S. – led NATO is still failing to set up a neo-colonial government in Libya, an advanced African country turned into a calamity of economic devastation, human rights abuses and gangster rivalry. In Latin America, Maduro is enduring in spite of years of sanctions and a failed attempt to sink the government with one of their sock puppets Juan Guaido.
There are accelerating tendencies in recent years to pick fights with Russia and China, however they seem to be surviving the sanctions, the increased war training, and the diplomatic rhetoric quite well.
Note, sanctions against North Korea since the 1950s have not worked. Sanctions against Cuba since the 1960s have not worked …. the list goes on.
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