美国infowars.com网站7月28日发表文章《美国解体之时(The Year America Dissolved)》(原文以及中文翻译附在后面)称,由于盲目进行海外势力扩张,美国的统治基础已面临严重危机。未来几年里,美国的政治、经济、军事将出现全面崩溃的局面,追求建立世界帝国的梦想只能以国家分崩离析为结局。
gungho调侃原文的“买卖采取易货交易或是用金、银、铜币交易。”说:“别吓咱,要不要多攒换些quarter啊? ”指出:“美国的对策有这几样: A. 停战止损,积累资本,利用现在尚存的科技优势产业创新。(不过要抓紧时间,否则外国人材可能回流,只剩下大堆律师。) B. 韬光养晦,以待天下有变,重振制造业。 C. 做好不当独大,甚至重当老二的准备,学英国对美国那样和平让位,以求对方的合作支持。 D. 破罐破摔,孤注一掷,豁出命去全力战争掠夺。那就是二战德日的老路。”
美国人的“民主”也是一个问题。本来好好的一个假民主,现在逐渐在美国向全世界推销“民主”的过程中美国到有可能成为比较真的民主国家了呢。美国民主这玩意儿相当于老百姓选CEO选美国公司的总裁。人们一般不喜欢聪明人,人性嘛,一般人看见比自己聪明的人是不太舒服的。所以美国人就选了布什,因为布什更象是老百姓的一员(美国人叫“one of us”),因此美国人选布什是美国民主发展史上的一个里程碑,它标志着美国的民主更真了。由于人的平均智力也就是一般人的智力,真正的民主选举的结果就是一般人选一个跟他们差不多(美国人叫“one of us”)的一般人的智力的人。我个人以为奥巴马也不比布什的智力高多少,虽然奥巴马比布什的学习成绩好很多。还有就是越是真正的民主就越接近“一家十五口,七口当家八口主事”,这其实也不好。因为没有任何军队搞民主选连长或团长的,也没有任何公司让雇员选老板或总裁CEO的。
首先,现代的帝国崩溃也不一定需要外敌入侵。帝国自己维持不下去就会使内部矛盾激化,例子有英国和苏联。英国就是大英帝国啦,其殖民地的独立就是第二次世界大战后大英帝国自己维持不下去了内部矛盾激化的结果。当然啦,也可以说德国是英国的匈奴和哥特人,虽然希特勒输了。但是苏联的解体如果是军事的直接结果的话,那也是苏联到处打别人战线过长。这一点基辛格的书《Years of Upheaval》里就提到毛主席告诉他苏联的手伸的太长了已经支持不下去了。
The first clans organized around local police forces. The conservatives’ war on crime during the late 20th century and the Bush/Obama war on terror during the first decade of the 21st century had resulted in the police becoming militarized and unaccountable.
As society broke down, the police became warlords. The state police broke apart, and the officers were subsumed into the local forces of their communities. The newly formed tribes expanded to encompass the relatives and friends of the police.
The dollar had collapsed as world reserve currency in 2012 when the worsening economic depression made it clear to Washington’s creditors that the federal budget deficit was too large to be financed except by the printing of money.
With the dollar’s demise, import prices skyrocketed. As Americans were unable to afford foreign-made goods, the transnational corporations that were producing offshore for US markets were bankrupted, further eroding the government’s revenue base.
The government was forced to print money in order to pay its bills, causing domestic prices to rise rapidly. Faced with hyperinflation, Washington took recourse in terminating Social Security and Medicare and followed up by confiscating the remnants of private pensions. This provided a one-year respite, but with no more resources to confiscate, money creation and hyperinflation resumed.
Organized food deliveries broke down when the government fought hyperinflation with fixed prices and the mandate that all purchases and sales had to be in US paper currency. Unwilling to trade appreciating goods for depreciating paper, goods disappeared from stores.
Washington responded as Lenin had done during the “war communism” period of Soviet history. The government sent troops to confiscate goods for distribution in kind to the population. This was a temporary stop-gap until existing stocks were depleted, as future production was discouraged. Much of the confiscated stocks became the property of the troops who seized the goods.
Goods reappeared in markets under the protection of local warlords. Transactions were conducted in barter and in gold, silver, and copper coins.
Other clans organized around families and individuals who possessed stocks of food, bullion, guns and ammunition. Uneasy alliances formed to balance differences in clan strengths. Betrayals quickly made loyalty a necessary trait for survival.
Large scale food and other production broke down as local militias taxed distribution as goods moved across local territories. Washington seized domestic oil production and refineries, but much of the government’s gasoline was paid for safe passage across clan territories.
Most of the troops in Washington’s overseas bases were abandoned. As their resource stocks were drawn down, the abandoned soldiers were forced into alliances with those with whom they had been fighting.
Washington found it increasingly difficult to maintain itself. As it lost control over the country, Washington was less able to secure supplies from abroad as tribute from those Washington threatened with nuclear attack. Gradually other nuclear powers realized that the only target in America was Washington. The more astute saw the writing on the wall and slipped away from the former capital city.
When Rome began her empire, Rome’s currency consisted of gold and silver coinage. Rome was well organized with efficient institutions and the ability to supply troops in the field so that campaigns could continue indefinitely, a monopoly in the world of Rome’s time.
When hubris sent America in pursuit of overseas empire, the venture coincided with the offshoring of American manufacturing, industrial, and professional service jobs and the corresponding erosion of the government’s tax base, with the advent of massive budget and trade deficits, with the erosion of the fiat paper currency’s value, and with America’s dependence on foreign creditors and puppet rulers.
The Roman Empire lasted for centuries. The American one collapsed overnight.
Rome’s corruption became the strength of her enemies, and the Western Empire was overrun.
America’s collapse occurred when government ceased to represent the people and became the instrument of a private oligarchy. Decisions were made in behalf of short-term profits for the few at the expense of unmanageable liabilities for the many.
Overwhelmed by liabilities, the government collapsed.
Globalism had run its course. Life reformed on a local basis.