Balance

One of the more interesting geopolitical events I believe will take place, in our generation, in fact, over the next ten to twenty years, will be the decline of the USA, that began as soon as Joseph Mccarthy started a witch hunt on communisim, ushering in all those hicks that we didn't educate after the corrupt rebuilding following the civil war.

The final nail in the coffin, despite ineffective govt like Katrina, sub prime mortgages, trade imbalances with China, denial of global warming, dependence on oil....no the biggest nail, and the very last nail in that ole red white and blue coffin was of course Iraq.

Iraq has drained us militarily, its exposed too much weakness, and its left us incapable of offensive or defense. Think in September 11th, they bombed us (even took out the fucking pentagon!), what if a country, like Mexico even or Venezuela actually did an organized attack? I think they would walk right up the white house and pull a quivering, half nude, sweaty Dick Cheney out of a bunker and slide bannannas up his ass til he choked to death.

The balance though and point of my blog is not about all these obvious theories and observations, also sweeping generalizations I noted above, many of which are just taken from political news headlines, what I am saying is that if the above is true. If American is declining, but more importantly has spent its military and exposed military weakness, then American may final be set to topple as world number one. Its not just economic strength, it has always been size, nationalism, and military strength that runs this planet. Sorry god, sorry for forces of good, but this planet is quite uncaring, unfair, and brutal.

Now, that being said, the good news.

Being Number One is the worst. An Athlete who wins gold in the Olympics has triumphed, most of all its four years so they only have to deal with being on top maybe two olympics in a row? They win, enjoy the win, and can retire on top.
Now sports teams have much harder problems, you win the superbowl once, well the expectation is you better at least make it to the playoffs the next year, except that the season after you win, you get treated differently. Everyone plays harder, wants to prove something, against a winner, against whoever is on top.
If you want to be number one, you need to take out number, your focus is not on number three or two, its on number one. And if you can get allies, you can combine to take on number one. The focus is on the winner. Now being a winner feels good, it looks good, but in politics, you got the burden of the world as well as the blame.
Do good and its well thats easy for them to do, like Amerian aid through out the world in terms of providing food.
Do bad, like denying global warming and everyone blames you, even though China is the worst polluter.

As America loses power, it will be in a happier better position, instead of being burdened with the worlds pressure and striving for perfection, American can let its hair loose and be itself. The pressure is starting to come off. Let Russia and China talk tough, but we can team up with others and just berate them. In fact, its time the UN and third world countries started blaming them more for the worlds powers, why if they become the strongest, we can easily pick at them.

The other advantage is you don't have to go out and beat number one, you know its tough, instead you taunt and pick at it. Number one won't strike because now its just holding onto its position. I would envisage this happening to China or Russia, but more likely China. Once they become number one, they will find their hands are tied more than they think.

Whelp USA you did a good job here and there, lot of mistakes though, time for a new crooked power, but hey, have a beer, watch the sunset, and take time to enjoy, the pressure is not on.