cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/61936
As a veteran of the U.S. war on Afghanistan, I visit high schools on a regular basis to talk about the military. I try to fill in the blanks that military recruiters intentionally ignore. I find that when asked, most students can say very little about the reasons why the U.S. fights. They often wrongly assume that the U.S. fights in self-defense or to protect democracy when in reality the U.S.
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By so many metrics the US has already failed.
We’re outside the pattern. Like Rome was.
There is no pattern. The “most empires fall after 250 years” is just some guy claiming it, there is no facts to back it up, and no historian has ever made such a claim.
Plus even if it was, it’s an average not a pattern
Difference is that Rome was able to survive for another thousand years after the fall of the western half of the empire. I severely doubt the US will pull such BS, or if it does it’ll be some random ass rump state like Trebizond or Theodoro.
this definitely feels more like usa’s funeral than usa’s birthday
Now with a memecoin and AI generated NFTs to commemorate!
I’ve worn black every 4th of July since 2017.
Maybe we could try not being an empire…
Let’s be a book club.
'Muricans reading…?
Umm, can it be audiobook?
Isn’t that what Trump ran on?
Luckily the underground crime economy is keeping it afloat.
Unluckily?
