RSSAmerica has always seemed to me like a wild overconfident teenager who thinks it’s parents (the old western Christian Europe) know nothing useful. This is not deny that the US has also produced many outstanding thinkers. But Americans need to reject the Calvinist spirit and its destructive worship of the so-called work ethic and the ingrained idea that “might is right” that dominates their general views of just about everything.
I wad told years ago by a lady of German Tongan ancestry that the Tongan queen asked the commander of the US troops there during WWII to remove the black personal because of their repeated violence on Tongan women.
I suspect the money for Ukraine that ends up in the pockets of US elites never actually leaves THE US.
A factor in Rome’s collapse was the massive expanding financial debt and its influence in destroying smaller scale farming and businesses resulting in massive estates employing thousands of slaves. Our own national money indebtedness – all of it a direct result of the fact that in truth we only rent money from the money creating banks – is the major factor behind the collapse of small enterprises in our countries. Gibbons did not see this elephant in the room and nor it does this writer.