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The thrust of this article was the premise for one I wrote last year suggesting that Trump might actually deserve the Nobel Peace Prize precisely because he has done so much damage to the Empire—and by extension, the global corporate capitalist economy. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/maybe-trump-did-deserve-the-nobel
To be honest, I can’t tell whether it’s satire, parody, independent analysis, or propaganda. Maybe a little bit of each?
This article has really cheered me up. I firmly believe that the US will go down as the shortest lived 'Empire' that ever existed. They don't, and won't ever, have the qualities of ancient empires (China, Iran/Persia) and their longevity or the later ones like Russia - great strength (moral too), wise and ethical. All three hold/held something sacred in their cultural, social and political being. The US holds nothing sacred, their qualities consist of bottomless greed, stupidity (no deep imagination), spitefulness and cruelty. In decades to come, no one will miss them, except maybe oddly enough, music.