Submitted by Ben Tanosborn
Doomsday for America through Economic Atrophy
There is a continuing virulent campaign in the US media to keep painting the unsubdued commie of yesterday, Russia, as America’s archenemy… occasionally adding an eventual adversary in China. For now, however, Russia is made to appear as the single imminent threat to America’s military dominance across the Seven Seas.
As reckless as the leadership in these two dominant nuclear superpowers, Russia and the United States, might appear at times, it would be irrational to think that mutually assured destruction would be allowed to prevail. Anti-ballistic defense missile systems required are, at least for now, a fantasy alternative, an idea buried with Ronald Reagan; something economically unrealizable, even if technologically feasible.
No; neither Russia nor China is an imminent threat to the US, but a cataclysmic event is looming in the economic front, one which will forever change the perception of America by the rest of the world; or how we, Americans, perceive ourselves. It’s back to what that great cartoonist (and sociopolitical commentator), Walt Kelly, told us a half century ago as America struggled during the Vietnam War:
“We have met the enemy and he is us.”
It was true in the 1960’s, and it is true in a magnified way today.
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