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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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I'm pretty sure China knew this since Reagan, by Bush Jr. it was undeniable.
Our government has proven to be untenable and should be dismantled. Balkanization is preferable to our current state... the State governments duplicate much of what the Federals do already. I don't think even a constitutional convention can divert the inevitable.
Any government that elected Trump twice is long dead and rotten to the core, USA is a dead man walking.
Yes, I know some organization(s) says different, and claims we are not corrupt. But... we still are. Legalized bribery isn't going to change anything, the end results are exactly the same.
US elites view it the same way, that's why they're all looting the place and developing closer relationships with the US empire's rivals.
If you grew up in a place called the Rust Belt this may not come as a surprise.
Anyone who has two braincells and reads the news is aware the US is crashing like General Grievous's ship on Coruscant
No need to worry, we're still flying half a country
Because it unequivocally is in decline?
People need to be realistic. We've been a poorer nation than we've pretended to be for a long, long time.
Like look at modern public buildings, not built to last, not like old stone and brick courthouses from the last century and the like. They're just made with the same cheap materials as everything else.
The decline started with Nixon, got kicked up a gear by Reagan, but the first real crack in the armor was George W. Bush and his middle east boondoggles in Afghanistan and Iraq. After that the world was willing to look at it as somewhat of an erroneous event and expected cooler heads and serious people to prevail.
Now that instead of serious people prevailing, we've been spinning down the drain, and that's literally the plan. The wholesale dismantling of US democracy was crowed from the rooftops as Project 2025.
The serious people in other countries aren't going to be fooled again.
To quote George W. Bush "Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, sh--, uhhh, you can't fool me again."
China Increasingly Views America as an Empire in Decline
They could have hung on a lot longer, but they seem to be speedrunning the decline on purpose. I think most of it's caused by backfiring really bad attempts to slow it.
But yeah I think once the AI thing crashes it's probably best to have a bunker for a while.