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Taking down America: four scenarios for the end of the American Century by 2025 | Energy Bulletin
A soft landing for America 40 years from now? Dont bet on it. The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines. If Washington is dreaming of 2040 or 2050 as the end of the American Century, a more realistic assessment of domestic and global trends suggests that in 2025, just 15 years from now, it could all be over except for the shouting.
Despite the aura of omnipotence most empires project, a look at their history should remind us that they are fragile organisms. So delicate is their ecology of power that, when things start to go truly bad, empires regularly unravel with unholy speed: just a year for Portugal, two years for the Soviet Union, eight years for France, 11 years for the Ottomans, 17 years for Great Britain, and, in all likelihood, 22 years for the United States, counting from the crucial year 2003.
Future historians are likely to identify the Bush administrations rash invasion of Iraq in that year as the start of America's downfall. However, instead of the bloodshed that marked the end of so many past empires, with cities burning and civilians slaughtered, this twenty-first century imperial collapse could come relatively quietly through the invisible tendrils of economic collapse or cyberwarfare
Athens lost the Peloponnesian war but still 'hung around' for a while, and Rome started going south after the winning the first punic war and they hung around for a
while too, like 600 years...Iraq is a pimple on histories buttocks.
I read the entire piece, since the authors degree is in "area' studies , which is basically a cultural discipline in a particular geographical region or cultural sect. ,and hes a member of the Asian society, I am wondering where he got his doctorate in history, I don't see a degree for that...and man, he needs one.
Heh heh...gotta admit friend...this post is one of your best.