‘As the United States should have learned several times over (but it won’t learn this), decapitation of regimes is not the same as breaking the connection between the regime and the state.’
— Vlad Vexler
https://www.youtube.com/live/5JlADBG_6ls?t=176

#VladVexler #Venezuela #Greenland #MarcoRubio #securityTheater #AmericanDecline #internationalOrder

"Our biggest adversary is waiting for the West to collapse."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/opinion/china-global-superpower-dan-wang.html

#china
#nextsuperower
#fuckus
#americandecline
#usempire
#fallofusempire

"The east is rising, and the west is declining"
https://globalvoices.org/2025/03/08/chinese-president-xi-jinpings-prediction-of-a-rising-east-and-a-declining-west-is-shared-by-odd-believers-amid-donald-trumps-isolationist-policy/

#britishdecline
#americandecline
#riseofchina
#china
#westerndecline

📉 Polls show confidence in the U.S. is collapsing.
People feel it — the decay, the exhaustion, the weight of it all.

“With every increase in the degree of consciousness,
and in proportion to that increase,
the intensity of despair increases:
the more consciousness, the more intense the despair.”
— Søren Kierkegaard

We're not broken because we see the truth.
We're despairing because we finally can.

#Despair #Kierkegaard #AmericanDecline #Consciousness #Philosophy #USPolitics #CollectiveGrief

Walked through an Eames Chairs exhibit and felt like I was attending a funeral, a cultural wake. These chairs once projected post-WWII power through cold elegance. Now they're M&M candies strewn about a gallery, artifacts of empire in twilight. Form followed function, but what was that function when the office itself has died?
https://krishinasnani.substack.com/p/chairs-at-the-eames-exhibit-in-san

#architecture #design #culturalcriticism #midcenturymodern #AmericanDecline

"Because of Donald Trump, Republicans are now the party of pain and suffering that helps the rich at your expense."
#Trumpism #Suffering #AmericanDecline

https://wolvesandsheep.substack.com/p/the-rebranding-is-complete?link_id=3&can_id=c1152ed4719dd52ebf8f397616378d3b&source=email-one-great-question-what-will-be-the-most-irreparable-aspect-of-trumps-presidency&email_referrer=email_2803749&email_subject=the-rebranding-is-complete-add-the-republican-party-to-the-list-of-things-trump-has-destroyed