Here’s the first half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – about what it was like to leave Afghanistan and get home to her family pic.twitter.com/p7GdlcJC3M
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 22, 2021
Here's the second half of my interview with @ClarissaWard – talking about what her week in Kabul was like, why she decided to leave, and why "the hardest part of the job is the guilt" pic.twitter.com/eSh6Kq98lS
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 22, 2021
The overall theme that I am sensing here is America’s rapid imperial decline – COVID, the fall of Afghanistan, military incompetence, cultural degeneration, etc.
Do you remember when Joe promised that “America is back”? Clearly, we’re not coming back. We’re moving forward toward imperial collapse. We’re picking up steam toward that outcome.
Note: How long will it be before trouble emerges elsewhere and further exposes our imperialists? China and Taiwan and Hong Kong? Russia and Ukraine? Israel and Iran and Syria?
It could be over. I say, have a read of Flashman and the Angel of the Lord. I suspect there might be a new Harper’s Ferry soon. The battle scene in the book is vivid. You’ll get a kick out of the narrative. There are several audio version for $ but the book has a nice map reconstructing the place in the 1850s. Both “factions” of the US are spoiling for a showdown. In the middle you have to survive the jive. The timing right now is ominous with anniversaries and evacuations and endemic diseases. Biden is as weak as Buchanan and will have to come up with some bullshit inside job. Read the book, it’s chilling.
” Clearly, we’re not coming back.”
There’s been too much racial damage done to America over the past 50 yrs. The racial structure of the US is terribly corrupted.
The reason we haven’t experienced the consequences of this destruction is that 30 trillion in fedzog debt has papered over it.
Like wallpaper to cover structural cracks.
The structural failure will be bad and come quickly.
The structural failure is indeed metaphorical but also physical reflecting imperial decline. The infrastructure of the country is failing because of overuse (immigration), lack of maintenance and other causes. Roads and bridges are a wreck:
https://www.tennessean.com/videos/news/2019/04/01/concrete-bridge-railing-collapses-onto-i-5-ca-278-b-72-f-64-e-300-b-8-f-9-e-61-f-apr-01-2019-20-49-2/3336063002/
The electrical grid is fragile, first California and Texas then the rest of the country:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/15/texas-ercot-blackouts-summer-climate/
The lunatics with their “alternative energy” schemes and 40 million people taxing the grid in California, favored by the ruling class of course are putting out the lights:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-california-keeps-having-blackouts-11598198401
Alternative ‘energy’ to what, having the lights on and the A/C running when it’s 100 deg. F. in most of the state?
The wonders of diversity; a negro barge captain who didn’t know how to read and operate his radar drove his barge into a bridge carrying an Amtrak train killing 47 and injuring 103 people Sept. 22, 1993, Mobile, Ala. Naturally the official investigation didn’t hold him responsible.
If, If, If the train hadn’t been delayed by thirty minutes for repairs they woulda, coulda, shoulda made it over the bridge before the negro barge captain wrecked the bridge. You see, the train is to blame, not the negro barge captain nor the system of diversity that put him there, the train is responsible.
The train should have known better than to breakdown when it did. It must have been a dreaded White Supremacist train to cause this wreck. It was probably planning the Jan. 6 clown show too. Call the FBI now, put the locomotive in jail.
https://www.esinationwide.com/big-bayou-canot-collapse-september-22-1993.php
The more diverse the U.S. becomes, the more it fails. QED.
Clarissa has that patrician jaw thing. What’s her family background?
>America is back
Nice people on the center-left and center-right have yet to be disillusioned about the Rainbow Empire as a Force for Good™, that is, the supposed invincibility, universality, and inevitability of their cosmopolitan lifestyle preferences. Taliban barbarism isn’t the genuine concern since we arm Saudi Arabia. Note also that Orban’s Hungary — a clean, modern, civilized state — causes the same panic. If not everyone wants to live the same way affluent Americans live, then they have some uncomfortable questions to ask themselves, especially if they believe what they believe from careerist, conformist, and ultimately cowardly motivations.
tl;dr That timeless progressive ideals are really just one among a set of changeable and historically limited customs gives Puritanical America (don’t be fooled by its secularism) indigestion.
Ward is British. Do you get the feeling as I do, that this Afghani adventure was part of the Great Game rivalry pitting Britain versus Russia? Joe Biden had a meeting with Putin in June.
The Japs are probably thinking if we only fought the US 75 years later.
Indeed: https://www.navy.com/who-we-are/diversity
I rather enjoyed Jonathan Cahn’s take on all of this in The Harbinger 2. What we have here is the wrath of God on a nation that has all but forgotten Him. To me as a believer it all makes sense taking into account all that we have done in this country in the last fifty years.
He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. (Rev. 22:21)
We are doomed! As far as I’m concerned it can’t happen quick enough…
@Jack Aubrey – You “can’t wait”… Then what? You magically get sucked up into heaven??
We are not in “decline” as much being sucked dry by Satan worshipping pedophiles. Black Rock and friends sucked $trillions out of the US economy just to move it to China along with all our manufacturing. Next is probably food control.
Brian Stetler has two kids? Are they a product of him copulating with a woman?
No, with Mrs. Potato Head.
He’s got Fallopian tubes.
No, with a Jewess.