Empire is a Vampire. Look at the cracked out old empires of Europe, and probably the best example: Russia. Russia is a nation with immense natural resources and brilliant people, but has suffered under the misrule of degenerates and inbreds for endless centuries. The US is currently suffering this same fate... This is a repost of an old post. No point in rewriting this:
The United States was not directly involved in Europe's great game bullshit for several decades after its founding. The Monroe Doctrine was a formal statement of the anti-Europe stance. However, the US got sucked into great game nonsense through the 19th century, then took a seat at the game table in the hellish 20th century.
In a lot of ways, the contemporary United States looks like a scheme to fund the cabal of people who play at the games of international intrigue and war. The popular "culture" of the United States seems to be engineered to obscure its structure and to keep people in the heartland of the nation believing the wars and schemes their blood and treasure support are in their own interest. Professional sports businesses receive millions in taxpayer funding to cheerlead for wars.
Even now, as people witness entire cities collapsing for want of funds oceans of money flow to dark, idiotic imperial schemes in dusty, poor corners of the world, the people can't quite conceptualize the problem. They know something's wrong, and have an emotional reaction as they look to men like Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders to solve their problems rather than asserting their own interests.
An example for the United States to follow is provided by modern Switzerland. The US would not get involved in foreign entanglements and the people would zealously guard their freedoms and their interests. They would reject the groups and people who attempt to drag them into old world politics. This concept is derived directly from the nation's intellectual history: it's the idea of Jeffersonian Democracy.
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