Alternative Visions - 8-28-26
Aug 28, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
Alternative Visions - 8-28-26
Aug 28, 2026 · 59 min · 9 segments
Alternative Visions - 8-28-26
It's a lengthy book, but it's very thorough, focusing not on the 250-year history of the American Empire, because the empire begins from the very beginning, the origins of the country.
No, it focuses on the period... from 1992 to the present shows how the empire expanded, was easily funded and financed and expanded during the 90s, 1990s, but then began running into trouble.
after 2000, 2001, forever wars and accelerating cost of empire, which have continued to accelerate in different phases, especially under Trump here.
They are expensive to particularly maintain and defend against challengers, whether those challengers be major challenges for hegemony.
And the book really tracks the economic material fundamental basis for the decline of the American empire.
A lot of talk going on in geopolitical examples and anecdotal evidence of the decline, which is accurate, the rise of the BRICS, the lost wars, the US cannot win wars, its military is not structured and too expensive to win modern asymmetric wars.
And we had fracturing geopolitical alliances and NATO and other military alliances are in trouble.
Yes, all these things are true, but none of these accounts of geopolitics really get down into the fundamental economic material bases for empires, and that's financial.
It gets into showing lots of tables, lots of facts, lots of data, showing how the empire is going broke, and it cannot sustain itself.
And then the U.S. regime change operations, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.
And then, of course, the conflict with China in the Pacific, Western Central Pacific.
Okay, so the book deals with all that, not just the finances, but it looks at the institutions of empire and the practices of empire.
What do we mean by practices? We mean, you know, forms of military action, invasions, direct action, regime change, special ops, all those economic warfare practices that deal with the political, geopolitical activities and, you know, sanctions and political tariffs and all the rest, deals with that and deals with dozens of institutions and how they've been performing.
It's a lengthy book, but it's very thorough, focusing not on the 250-year history of the American Empire, because the empire begins from the very beginning, the origins of the country.
No, it focuses on the period... from 1992 to the present shows how the empire expanded, was easily funded and financed and expanded during the 90s, 1990s, but then began running into trouble.
after 2000, 2001, forever wars and accelerating cost of empire, which have continued to accelerate in different phases, especially under Trump here.
They are expensive to particularly maintain and defend against challengers, whether those challengers be major challenges for hegemony.
And the book really tracks the economic material fundamental basis for the decline of the American empire.
A lot of talk going on in geopolitical examples and anecdotal evidence of the decline, which is accurate, the rise of the BRICS, the lost wars, the US cannot win wars, its military is not structured and too expensive to win modern asymmetric wars.
And we had fracturing geopolitical alliances and NATO and other military alliances are in trouble.
Yes, all these things are true, but none of these accounts of geopolitics really get down into the fundamental economic material bases for empires, and that's financial.
It gets into showing lots of tables, lots of facts, lots of data, showing how the empire is going broke, and it cannot sustain itself.
And then the U.S. regime change operations, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.
And then, of course, the conflict with China in the Pacific, Western Central Pacific.
Okay, so the book deals with all that, not just the finances, but it looks at the institutions of empire and the practices of empire.
What do we mean by practices? We mean, you know, forms of military action, invasions, direct action, regime change, special ops, all those economic warfare practices that deal with the political, geopolitical activities and, you know, sanctions and political tariffs and all the rest, deals with that and deals with dozens of institutions and how they've been performing.
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