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May
RT: Can the Russian Soul Save the American Empire?
Robert Bridge, of the English language news network Russian Today, says that 3rd world immigration, television, materialism, prescription narcotics, and poor diet have left Americans in weak moral and physical condition.
Due to its unshakeable commitment to materialism and individualism, Americans now find themselves passengers on a spiritual shipwreck that perhaps only the Russian soul can salvage.
Today, the challenges now confronting the United States – from protracted wars in foreign lands, to local wars on the home front – seem lethal enough to sink the ship of the American superpower. Yet people around the world are not ready to give up hope on Uncle Sam just yet.
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move,” commented the American writer, E.E. Cummins. “She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.”
The problem with America (potentially) “going to Hell” is that this earth-straddling superpower carries enough economic, political and social baggage to drag the rest of humanity to Dante’s depths with it. That was adequately proven during the latest economic meltdown, sparked by flawed US financial products, overspent consumers and pure greed. Even the ensuing rescue package was gift-wrapped by US-backed international lenders of last resort and overnight-expressed to their favorite “too-big-to-fail” friends.
Despite escaping from the financial jaws of death before the final buzzer, we already know from past experience that superpowers are not impervious to sudden death.
“There comes a moment when complex systems ‘go critical’,” historian Niall Ferguson wrote in the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs. “A very small trigger can set off a ‘phase transition’ from a benign equilibrium to a crisis – a single grain of sand causes a whole pile to collapse, or a butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazon and brings about a hurricane in southeastern England.”
One day – maybe in 5 years, maybe in 500 – the United States too will be forced to give up the ghost of global preeminence. But perhaps there is a way to not only extend America’s lease on life a bit longer, but also to help it become more of a benevolent superpower. This may be accomplished by borrowing a few tricks from Russia, a nation well-known for its gutsy survival instincts and resourcefulness.
First we should step back and consider the moral and physical condition of the United States. After all, empires usually collapse not from financial crisis, or greedy bankers, but from internal decay brought about by a precipitous decline in morals and civility. In other words, America has much more to fear from a moral meltdown than any existential threat from abroad.
I like Russia. I’m not a big fan of communism, but as you can see the United States is quite communist and simply uses the interchangeable term “materialist”. The United States lacks National pride because it is no longer a Nation.
Don’t buy the hype — Russia is NOT the enemy. That’s China, Mexico, Arabia, and Israel.
May 14th, 2012 at 5:04 pmRussia is not saving anyone. They are facing a major population loss do to enormous abortion rates and families having less children under communist rule. Russia is going to face a major demographic winter in the next 30 years. Plus with the soft “underbelly” of muslims in thier southern regions (Chechnya etc.) they have years of wars ahead of them
I love Russia but they are facing some major problems.
May 14th, 2012 at 6:15 pmRussia has made some great strides in increasing their white birthrate in the last few years. So has Poland.
May 14th, 2012 at 6:19 pmI wish Russia the best. That country NEVER aksed for Communism. But they got it and as a result their birth rate dropped really bad. However, Putin hasimplemented policy to increase the White Russian birth rate. There has been some improvement. Let’s hope it continues.
May 14th, 2012 at 6:52 pmYea free enterprise, freedom of religon and religous exemptions plus subsidies and the right to bear arms. Your right the United states is defiantly communist. Considering Putin continues to “castle” back in power under the image of a KGB strong man and promise of expanding Russias military the US defiantly is concerned. Since russia votes with china on every matter in the Security Council how do u distinguish the 2 as one being an enemy and one not? None of you remember Bush/Condolezza constantly butting heads with putin over the missels in the Czech republic, the war in chechnya and russias growing middle eastern influence? This country is constantly in the grip of organized crime who hold political power and a stagnant econemy. Countries like finland, sweedon and Denmark hold the answers to national harmony
May 14th, 2012 at 11:04 pmI think I’d hang out with Putin. His hobbies are way cooler. Remember that shot of Obama trying to fish? You’d be hanging out with a commie either way.
May 14th, 2012 at 11:59 pmmy father doesn’t like putin. but he was raised an avid anti-communist (which is the right way to be raised lol). but we all know the communist are kept at bay, if not all killed off since putin came to power. putin is that type of manly bad ass president the usa use to have when we were kicking ass all over the globe and keeping non-whites out of the country. the usa population is going to be around 325 million soon. with 50% of that non-whites. russias population will drop down 100 million. but with a 85-89% white ratio still going on. putin also realizes he must spend some government spending on encouraging young white russians to breed more. the future of a multi-racial majority usa? LOL. does anyone really think that will last? we should all realize all blacks are moving back to the south (spanish speakers and asians are pushing them out of the north and west). so eventually (like Mississippi and georgia will be soon) a new black nation will be formed out of the southern countries. in all this were will white people stand? maybe isolated to the mountain west. we just simply DO NOT breed. you don’t breed you lose all power/rights and eventually slowly killed off/die off. wake up white people.
May 15th, 2012 at 6:27 am