the empire is collapsing and its the author of its own demise;

Since the end of the Cold War, when the U.S. national-security establishment lost its official enemy, the Soviet Union, the U.S. government has been on a 28-year-long crusade, beginning first in the Middle East and, then later, extending into Afghanistan.

This U.S. foreign crusade has cost the lives of countless people in Afghanistan and the Middle East, especially in Iraq, as well as the deaths and injuries of thousands of American soldiers.

Moreover, the crusade has not been cheap. The U.S. government now owes more than $22 trillion to creditors. Each and every year, President Trump and his Democratic cohorts in Congress are adding $1 trillion to that total. If that debt is ever paid off, it will be done by taxing the American people and using the terror of the IRS to ensure compliance.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is doing its best to ensure that the federal debt is paid off in cheapened, debased dollars, which essentially amounts to a default. In order to avoid paying off the real amount the U.S. government has borrowed from people to fund its 28-year-long crusade, U.S. officials do what kings have done throughout history — they simply print up the money to pay their debts..........https://www.fff.org/2019/09/25/king-richard-and-kings-bush-clinton-obama-and-trump/