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I can think of another failing modern empire that returned to fascism and is being embarrassed in a senselessly brutal and poorly conceived “limited action” against a smaller militarily disadvantaged nation…
The things that make nations great is not war and reinvestment in their elite classes, it is the investments of grand infrastructure that underpins the spirit of their people, and that gave rise to an elite class in the first place: water, food, housing, healthcare, science, and education. Republican policies (and they are now explicitly party policy) of exclusion, hate, war, deregulation, and authoritarian force aim to dismantle and rebuild the US in the image of Christian fascism. It continues to remain hilariously contradictory to me as to how they ever planned to do this by utilizing a government they are actively dismantling, with a clearly incompetent leader who can only see strategies that funnel money and power to his interests.
Just like economic bubbles, the overvalued faith in these utterly insane people is only propped up by the false hype generated by media spin and massive loans against the excess power projection of the US constructed over a century. The losses have been socialized for too long and the bubble will burst, as it was designed to do. This system has been carefully engineered over decades by people who have had so much wealth for so long that it has completely disconnected them from reality and decoupled their thinking from consequence for generations. In other words, they have gone mad with power.
I can also recall several other historically fascist nations that were driven to ruin by their elite classes succumbing to this madness, right around the 1930’s…