The empire won’t fall like an asteroid, but like a farting 400 kg old geezer who’s eaten too much McDo and doomscrolled his brain to death
They got away with murder for 200 years or so... but now they have no more steam... they are outpowered by the rest of the world... it's not a few free oil barrels that will shift anything... this is a desperate move from a suffocating empire... the real goal is to assure global oil supply so they can knock off Iran and the oil traffic will be stopped from the Middle East... this is a card in the game against Iran and this time they will go all the way in with total obliteration... 40-50 million deaths at least on their hands... they have the means to enforce order at home by using the quasi-para ICE... I suspect Canada will be next to ensure the backyard is safe... and then Greenland and the split of NATO over it, the Europeans will not have the cojones to ally with their only chance Russia-China as they are too infiltrated by the US plus its military assets in Europe... only if US are withdrawing, but they will not because they cannot leave Europe flying by itself... even the Brexit was a US move to weaken Europe... as it was the Trojan horse of Ukraine, Germany industry is halted and is losing ground vs Asia... unwanted immigration is paralysing social advances... they use the pale blue hegemon as a basis for the pressure on West Asia and the Arab states, but they are really losing ground; this last sub-par illegitimate move shows the world a drunkard beating his wife, unfrequentable, untrustworthy, limit crazy so it will automatically isolate itself even more, it's like a self-inflicted reversed embargo Uncle Sam is inflicting on itself, nobody wants to deal with them as it’s clear they lost their reason, containment by international hypocrisy is the word, they and their oriental tentacle; Europeans are way smarter than they show... I'm pretty sure they have their knives hidden in their backs, they negotiate underground with Asia and Russia, all that von der Leyen talk is just a facade of stupidity to safeguard their true actions, even the blow-up of NS2 was to convince Uncle Sam that Europe loves them... nope my friend... Europe is watching US as a bunch of rude McDonald eaters fat greasy stained brainless idiots who happen to have money and big cars and big ego... go across Europe... you will see people with normal BMI... not addicted to phones as in US... people who still know how to live and have ancestral traditions... everything that was destroyed in the US in the last 30 years... the empire is collapsing... and the sound of it will not be the one of a falling meteorite but of a falling 400 lb man with a fart to the end...