The Supreme Leader may well imagine that he is Making America Great Again. And maybe he is, but he might also be a dupe of History...whose actual role is very different.
Just too dang bad, Bill, that you couldn't get Biden to be in charge for another four years - as he was for the prior four years!!! Now THAT would've put the USA on the path to international greatness, with another 25,000,000 illegals (per year)! What a joke the previous administration was. Don't forget the Open Borders. What great planning they had! Planning the demise of US, that is.
Trump is now a lame (daffy) duck which means he no longer has to pander to his base. His final act is no doubt guided by the policy that it's better to burn out than fade away. Oh well, at least he'll be celebrated in Israel, for as long as it still exists.
Let's hope he goes with a whimper and not a BANG! Unfortunately, he is such a megalomaniac and narcissist it is unlikely. He just can't stand it when he is not bowed down to......and no matter what his reaction is to double down. Yes - ol' Bill - let's hope America slides into a "modest" version of its once hegemony. But, wondering, if the US$ continues its slide into being irrelevance, what might that do to the economy? I would guess the economy may fall into a significant depression resulting in it being substantially less importance on the world stage. Pondering what lies ahead......oh, there are so many roads and it appears ol' DJT is looking up at the Cheshire Cat and asking - "what way should I go?" and the Cat asks - where are you going? And DJT replies "I have no idea". Hence, his complete lack of any strategy - economically or in the Iran War. Except he does like to bomb countries and people. Amazin' time in history as our Republic comes apart.
Hi Bill, maybe you are giving too much credit or not, comparing DJT to the Likes of Cromwell, Napoleon and others. Let us All remember that DJT was Not even a .. Soldier, let alone an Army General… He was a.. Coward!😡
Bill, the sad fact is that you will be 6 feet under before your prediction of a failed empire comes to fruition, if at all. As you know history rhymes, it does not repeat. So while your many, many historical comparisons are interesting they may have no relevance to the American empire.
Secondly, yes the empire is allowed to "wack" those empires whose behavior is both antithetical and disruptive to Amercan values and interest. This has been true throughout history, as you well know. But then as you also know historical facts have never trumped leftist idealogy, as has been played out in the legacy press since the 1960s.
On a grammar issue, in your missive today, you stated "an historical..." where the proper modern English as "a historical..." is the correct grammarical usage. However, in old European English "an" would be correct. Why do I bring this up? Well, I am petty, and secondly in confirmation of some of your reader's beliefs, you are more an European thinker than an American thinker....just saying
Thank you for this piece. I really enjoy your daily writings. I value how you consistently manage to rise above the daily noise and look at events from a wider historical perspective. It always adds a new colour to the picture for me and helps me think more calmly and more structurally about what is going on. Please keep writing.
History will not treat kindly the US imbroglio with Iran. Its become a genuine mess. We started it during the Eisenhower Administration because their elected prime minister pledged to nationalize US and British oil firms. Years later, we even funded Saddam Hussein to wage war against the Iranians. And air power alone won't end it. But it will intensify Iranian enmity toward the US
Just too dang bad, Bill, that you couldn't get Biden to be in charge for another four years - as he was for the prior four years!!! Now THAT would've put the USA on the path to international greatness, with another 25,000,000 illegals (per year)! What a joke the previous administration was. Don't forget the Open Borders. What great planning they had! Planning the demise of US, that is.
Trump is now a lame (daffy) duck which means he no longer has to pander to his base. His final act is no doubt guided by the policy that it's better to burn out than fade away. Oh well, at least he'll be celebrated in Israel, for as long as it still exists.
Let's hope he goes with a whimper and not a BANG! Unfortunately, he is such a megalomaniac and narcissist it is unlikely. He just can't stand it when he is not bowed down to......and no matter what his reaction is to double down. Yes - ol' Bill - let's hope America slides into a "modest" version of its once hegemony. But, wondering, if the US$ continues its slide into being irrelevance, what might that do to the economy? I would guess the economy may fall into a significant depression resulting in it being substantially less importance on the world stage. Pondering what lies ahead......oh, there are so many roads and it appears ol' DJT is looking up at the Cheshire Cat and asking - "what way should I go?" and the Cat asks - where are you going? And DJT replies "I have no idea". Hence, his complete lack of any strategy - economically or in the Iran War. Except he does like to bomb countries and people. Amazin' time in history as our Republic comes apart.
Hi Bill, maybe you are giving too much credit or not, comparing DJT to the Likes of Cromwell, Napoleon and others. Let us All remember that DJT was Not even a .. Soldier, let alone an Army General… He was a.. Coward!😡
To be sure that is just one man's opinion and nothing more.
Bill, the sad fact is that you will be 6 feet under before your prediction of a failed empire comes to fruition, if at all. As you know history rhymes, it does not repeat. So while your many, many historical comparisons are interesting they may have no relevance to the American empire.
Secondly, yes the empire is allowed to "wack" those empires whose behavior is both antithetical and disruptive to Amercan values and interest. This has been true throughout history, as you well know. But then as you also know historical facts have never trumped leftist idealogy, as has been played out in the legacy press since the 1960s.
On a grammar issue, in your missive today, you stated "an historical..." where the proper modern English as "a historical..." is the correct grammarical usage. However, in old European English "an" would be correct. Why do I bring this up? Well, I am petty, and secondly in confirmation of some of your reader's beliefs, you are more an European thinker than an American thinker....just saying
Thank you for this piece. I really enjoy your daily writings. I value how you consistently manage to rise above the daily noise and look at events from a wider historical perspective. It always adds a new colour to the picture for me and helps me think more calmly and more structurally about what is going on. Please keep writing.
History will not treat kindly the US imbroglio with Iran. Its become a genuine mess. We started it during the Eisenhower Administration because their elected prime minister pledged to nationalize US and British oil firms. Years later, we even funded Saddam Hussein to wage war against the Iranians. And air power alone won't end it. But it will intensify Iranian enmity toward the US