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the US absolutely doesn't control the world, the war in Ukraine and recent attempt at a trade war with China is a great example of just how weak the empire really is. The US failed to subdue Russia and their attempt to cut Russia out of the global economy resulted in a separate economic system forming with increasing amount of trade happening outside western control. Now, global majority is allied with China against the empire, and hence why we see the US desperately lashing out.
The US has hit an inflection point where the cost of maintaining the empire outstrips the plunder. All the forever wars have drained critical resources, while financial capitalism moved essential production overseas. Now the US finds that it has little economic leverage, and its material base is eroded.
"The dying serpent always bites". The roman empire went out like this too, overextending itself with a lot of imperialist wars, then devolving into internal strife and instability until it hollowed out and everyone left.
Indeed, it does seem to be a consistent pattern throughout the ages. I imagine a big part of it is that the ruling class becomes increasingly disconnected from material reality, and they start making decisions based on how they think the world works rather than how it actually is.
We are in a thread about US government killing the leader of a country on the other side of the world without any disturbance. No other country can do something like.
You genuinely think that Russia or China does not have the capability to do that? The difference here isn't that the US is more capable, it's that it's a rabid dog.
russia and china don't have the capability to launch a full scale attack on a country on the other side of the world. US government is able to attack iran because they have control all over the region and in between
Russia and China are nuclear superpowers, they can turn any country into glass. Meanwhile, the US isn't even able to produce weapons on its own with importing critical things like rare earths from China which the US isn't capable of producing in any significant quantity. If you think that deindustrialized shithole that's currently being outproduced by Russia militarily is a global hegemon, then I don't know what else to tell you.
North korea has nukes too, that doesn't mean they have the capability to successfully attack any county in the world and kill the leader without any repercussions. It seem like you believe russia and china are better than US empire but that doesn't automatically make them more powerful, combined the two countries doesn't spend in war as half of what US does.
That is literally because they don't have the missile range. I also assume they have far less warheads stockpiled.
Again, if you think the US attacking countries and killing their leaders is a show of strength then you're deluded. What makes China and Russia more powerful is that they have actual domestic industry, and can produce their own weapons. The US cannot do that. Meanwhile, spending a bunch of money on war just shows how inefficient the US military industrial complex is. Here's what the reality looks like https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/16/is-russia-producing-a-years-worth-of-nato-ammunition-in-three-months
The US is just a clown country run by senile pedophiles.
You sound brainwashed on either russian or chinese state propaganda
So are most countries
that's an amazing counterpoint there to the fact that Russia alone is outproducing all of NATO 🤣
How many artillery shell were used to kill Ali Khamenei? You sound like a propagandist arguing that north korea army is the strongest in the world because they outproduce everyone in bayonets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_conflict
The Burger Reich isn't much better at producing missiles than it is at producing artillery shells. Perhaps you don't understand that artillery shells are much easier to produce than missiles, and if you can't even produce the former you have no hope of producing the latter in any quantity?
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/25/iran-weapons-trump-troops-defense-00797801
You sound like an utter ignoramus.
Russia's own corrupt ineptitude did that one mate. Russia should have taken Ukraine in days and its been years. They have not even gotten Zelenskyy.
And it was never a direct conflict with the US.
Your ability to regurgitate propaganda is impressive. Yet, it shows utter lack of capacity for critical thinking. Only an utter imbecile could think that a proxy war with NATO would last for days. And why would they go after Zelensky, what would that accomplish exactly?