{"id":39195,"date":"2025-02-19T23:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39195"},"modified":"2025-02-19T23:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T04:37:23","slug":"musk-and-trump-are-causing-the-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39195","title":{"rendered":"Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cooper-American20empire20021925.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"203\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Empires have fallen before. But it\u2019s never been this purely idiotic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/world\/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history\/\">Musk and Trump Are Causing the Dumbest Imperial Collapse in History<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;But this is not a political parlor game for Canadians. They are\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2025-02-07\/canada-s-fury-with-trump-is-about-more-than-tariffs-51st-state-jabs\" target=\"_blank\">incandescently furious<\/a>, and they are right to be. Canada stood shoulder to shoulder by America through the great bloodbaths of the 20th century. Since then, it has been a quietly loyal neighbor, making not a peep of trouble along the world\u2019s longest land border, and providing a vast supply of energy, mineral, timber, and other exports to fuel the American economy. And this is the thanks they get: A senile fascist American president who suggests a war of conquest\u2014and make no mistake, that is what it would take\u2014because he wants to make America look big but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/world\/2025-02-07-letter-between-friendly-nations\/\">doesn\u2019t understand<\/a>\u00a0how the Mercator projection exaggerates the size of northern land masses\u2014which, it\u2019s been reported, is one reason for his coveting Greenland, too.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"908\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4.png 908w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4-768x305.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-4-675x268.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 908px) 100vw, 908px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;America suffered no military defeat. We were not outstripped economically by a bigger or better-organized competitor. Rather, we elected an insane tyrant who is blowing up the foundation of our international power for no reason, all while he lets a South African immigrant ultra-billionaire and his crew of teenybopper fascists tear the wiring out of the federal government\u2014again, for no reason.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"873\" height=\"193\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5.png 873w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5-768x170.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-5-675x149.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 873px) 100vw, 873px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empires have fallen before. But it\u2019s never been this purely idiotic. 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