Here are some observations from James Howard Kunstler:
I guess we had to find out the hard way that Afghanistan is not like Nebraska. Let others be cruel about it (and there’s plenty of that right now, elsewhere). The last ostensible hegemon who tried occupying the place before us was the Soviet Union, which discovered painfully that Afghanistan was not much like its Kemerovo Oblast, either, and shortly after it withdrew its troops in 1989, the Soviet Union commenced to collapse — which prompts one to wonder: How much is the USA of 2021 like the Soviet Union of those years?
Well, we’ve become an ossified, administrative nomenklatura of Deep State flunkies as the Soviets were, and lately we’re just as lawless as they used to be, constitution-wise — e.g., the abolition of property rights via the CDC’s rent moratorium … the prolonged jailing in solitary confinement of January 6 political prisoners … the introduction of internal “passports.” The USA is running on fumes economically as the Soviets were. Our dominant party leadership has aged into an embarrassing gerontocracy. Is it our turn to collapse?
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Finally, there’s the fate of President “Joe Biden.” As Kabul falls this morning, he remains in his Camp David gopher hole. Observers conjecture that he’s had a few “bad days” lately, meaning he is not presentable. There is a rising clamor, even among his own partisans, for him to come out and say something, anything … for Gawdsake … just do more than pretend to be the leader of the free world! It could be curtains for Ol’ White Joe … resignation-time. Never before has a US president faced such a daunting loss of legitimacy, and hardly just on account of Afghanistan. And then consider who’s next-in-line for that position. (Did you shudder?)
Sometimes, Vlad Lenin observed, events take decades, and sometimes years happen in weeks. This looks like one of those times for the USA. Heads will soon be spinning like the little girl’s in The Exorcist, releasing a pea-soup spewage of shocking revelation. The old narratives will fall apart before our eyes. Minds will have to get right. Prepare for a whole lot of strange days rolling out.
You can find the rest @
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/strange-days-ahead/
Others (e.g., Pat Buchanan) have called the USA a failing state which soon may collapse. The determining factor will be when those old narratives finally fall apart, and you may have noticed the groundwork for that has been laid by the wokesters for quite some time.
If the USA does collapse, do you suppose our former "leaders" will flee the country in private jets loaded with cash? Oh, wait ... they've already been doing that, ever since the start of the COVID pandemic. Here's an example in case you missed it:
Clearly, they screwed us big time ... and now they're going to leave us holding the bag. Are you happy now?
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