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Empires never surrender: they rot; there is no empire without an end. We have the rare opportunity to see the gringo empire turn into scum while it still retains enormous military power. But that power does it no good. Gangrene advances and eats away at the body that suffers it. The signs of gangrene are Trump, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Kristi Noem, Russell Vought, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and their numerous kindred. Empires show their decay in the corruption of their ruling elites, in the inevitable erosion of the ideas that once produced consensus around them, in the crises and brutalities that their economy causes in dominated societies, and in an ineluctable fate: he who grasps too much holds little… empires vehemently long to grasp, always to grasp more and more territories, societies, riches.
The Roman Empire ended with massive inflation, military spending that never stopped growing, and a pressing need for more and ever more slaves. This power was weakened by the political division between the Eastern and Western Empires; it was weakened by civil wars and palace intrigues over the power of the throne. The Spanish Empire ended in financial bankruptcy, galloping inflation caused by the wealth plundered from the American colonies, and its self-interested involvement in wars such as the Thirty Years’ War, which drained its coffers; it was also a parasitic economy that avoided building its own industries, trusting in an infinite plunder of gold and silver from the colonies; and in the end, the loss of the goose that laid the golden eggs: the colonies gained their independence. The British Empire died suffocated by two world wars that brought it total bankruptcy, alongside decolonization movements, including that of India. While the empire was drowning, the United States and the USSR emerged as new powers, both radically opposed to the old territorial colonialism of the British Empire. This empire never ceased its attempt to grasp more and more; it came to dominate and govern nearly a quarter of the planet: a lunatic attempt for an exhausted little island.
There goes the gringo empire. With the death of the USSR, it believed that it could grasp, through economic and financial instruments—such as the international structure that upholds the dollar—absolute dominion over the entire planet. It believed that with unparalleled armed forces it could subdue any insubordinate. It thought that Hollywood ideology, along with its industrial imprint and its great capacity for innovation, would dominate forever. It was wrong from top to bottom.
Hollywood ideology is despised by increasingly broad swaths of all continents. The force of bombs, with its ships, submarines, aircraft, and all its paraphernalia, is on its way to becoming scrap. The first major sign of that trend is its impotent war with Iran. The billion-dollar cost of the gringo bombings is good for fuck-all. Its military budget only continues to increase and impacts domestic debt to an ever greater extent.
Currencies are decisive pieces in the shaping of states. They rest on complex institutional and legal structures. The currencies of empires have a central role in international trade and, therefore, have a prominent role in the geopolitical game. The pound sterling continued as the main international currency for years after Britain’s geopolitical peak. Something similar may happen with the dollar.
The 1974 agreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia, by which oil would be traded internationally only in dollars, lasted 50 years. That agreement created the super-dollar, and the Arab world did not renew it. The dollar entered a path of weakening, heightened by international distrust in Treasury bonds, due to a U.S. federal public debt equivalent to 122.5 percent of GDP. The industry that catapulted the United States to the status of the world’s largest economy is in free fall. Manufacturing value added as a percentage of GDP followed a secular decline. In the 1950s, it represented between 21 and 28 percent of GDP. Today, that proportion has fallen to 9.5 percent.
Meanwhile, China grows and shines. More than a third of global manufacturing production originates in China. Numerous cities gleaming with cleanliness and modernity contrast vividly with the decay and filth of gringo cities. For example: Shenzhen is a first-rate manufacturing hub for technological innovation; it boasts its Shenzhen North railway and Metro station, which has the astonishing look of a space station; New York, the most important city in the United States, has a subway that stinks of shit and weed.
The United States, in order to revive its declining existence, sets out to wipe out communism: it will find what does not exist. Rubio has been singled out to hunt down the left everywhere because they are the devil. Caput.
Original article: jornada.com.mx
