Crumbling empires, theirs and ours

Here's a photo essay about crumbling Soviet military bases:

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-haunting-photographs-abandoned-soviet-military-bases-0

And here's a series of photo galleries about crumbling facilities in Detroit, a city once called the "arsenal of democracy":

http://zfein.com/photography/detroit/

Don't they kinda look the same? Was their demise due to common factors?

I think the global ruling class, the 1% of the 1% of the 1%, brought down the USSR and are now engaged in bringing down the USA.

Why?

"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest."

James Warburg

And trust me, folks, Obama ad-Dajjal and HRC are riding the very same bandwagon.