Tonight's speech and where we as a nation will go

[nadinbrzezinski]

As a nation. It does not matter anymore whether you believe this is a dmeocracy or dictartorship

This is an empire and we will pull out of Iraq.

mark my words

The fall of the American Empire will be sudden, will be surprising, but it will happen

And I can also predict the break up of the country into anywhere from three to five successor states

The USSR, that is prologue to our future and for the same reasons as it happened to them. This is what George and his coenablers, at all levels, have done

The other prologue to the future is ROME

Regardless, the folks for whom history does not matter... they have condemned this nation to the dustbin of history.

And we have enabled it, at multiple levels

Oh well, the experiment is over





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[Bonobo]

1. I like the sound of that, 5 successor states!

I want to live in the UCNE, the United Coalition of the North East!

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Damn if you ever played Battletech

you'd get the ironacy of my choice, but when you look at theh subcultures of the US... it is not that far fetched

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

6. State of Jefferson ?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Some in the right wing remind me of Smoke Jags

which were a bad take on Nazis... and I epxect at least one successor state to be a fascist dictartorship

[Matariki]

4. Cascadia!

I'm already there.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. I've thought the comparison with the USSR is more apt than that of Nazi Germany.

MKJ

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. The problem is that some aspects fit Nazi Germany

almost to a T

but the oeverextension of the military, fit Rome, the Briths, the Netherlands and Spain to a T, as well as the USSR

But this reminds me of.... Afghanistan to a point

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. Afghanistan was the tipping point. A futile pre-emptive war waged for

distraction. Eventually.

Sounds familiar. MKJ

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yeah, damn and my history instructors swore up and down

that history never, ever, repeats itself...

I am sure the Ameircan Historical Association is rethinking THAT ONE

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. :-)

Deserved. :toast: MKJ

[zabet]

11. It is the people

repeating mistakes and not learning from their errors - Not history
repeating itself. Just the same mistakes made over and over and
over again. Just my opinion.