Economy
In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Celebrate Harry Potter's 35th Birthday July 31st, 2015 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)And the Economic Defeat of the West is being engineered by the BRICS (with the unwitting help of Western banksters who have effectively occupied and destroyed Europe and are working on the US), and the N-11, who have had quite enough of warfare by-any-other-name.
Because the USSR collapsed first, Russia is indeed starting to take over the world again, but not unilaterally. This time, Russia has friends, fellow victims of Western Imperialism. But then, Russia always tried to make friends, and the US always tried to break it up. That's why Cuba exists at all...staunchest friend of the USSR, survivor of the Coldest of wars, and now, the US, in its arrogance, thinks it's winning there.
When it comes down to it, all the US has left is the fear of its military, and the Middle East is making a mockery of that....how long before another nation or consortium of nations, takes it on?
Nobody will come to the US defense...because the US, that shining city on a hill, is now a haunted wreck of a noble idea of liberty, justice, opportunity, inhabited by the Nazgul of the 1%.