Tag: decline and fall

Sea Power vs Land Power

Sea power tends to be more aggressive and expansive, but land power tends to last longer:

For over a century, two dead advisors have shaped the way great powers view the world.

On one side, we have Alfred Thayer Mahan—the American naval officer who believed sea power determined global supremacy. According to Mahan, controlling the oceans means controlling trade. If you control trade, you control wealth. If you control wealth… well, you get the picture.

On the other side is Halford Mackinder, the British geographer who argued the exact opposite. Forget the seas, he said. Whoever controls the “World Island”—Eurasia—controls the world. Railways, rivers, pipelines, and land empires are what count. Not frigates and aircraft carriers.

Mahan and Mackinder are no longer with us, but their ideas continue to influence the world today.

And we’re watching it unfold.

The United States and the United Kingdom—Mahan’s spiritual children—have long benefited from an ocean-based order. Ruling the waves built their prosperity and power. The British Empire’s reach was maritime. The U.S. Navy now patrols every major sea lane. The dollar reigns supreme because oil, commodities, and trade settle in greenbacks. That world—the Mahan world—is why Americans live like kings while land powers like Russia and China have spent decades playing catch-up.

But Mahan’s world has limits. Especially when you try to keep your rivals bottled up in theirs.

That’s precisely what the U.S. has tried to do with China.

If you look at ancient history, the rivalries between Athens and Sparta, and between Carthage and Rome, all ended the same way; with the land power eventually defeating the sea power. This is because sea power is intrinsically offensive, which means that it doesn’t have much in the way of defense in depth once its advantages are counteracted in one way or another.

It’s already apparent that either China or Russia can defeat the USA in a war. Which means that the US is an empire in decline, and the only real question is how fast it will collapse and how far.

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The Globalist Charade

It’s fascinating to observe how simply paying attention to the details of the Ukrainian war inevitably leads to the observation of the complete failure of the globalists presently running what passes for the West:

The entire globalist charade at this point consists of presenting an image of solidarity, growth, and ‘optimism’—a narcotic psyop for the masses drowning in the post-modernist hell of social and cultural breakdown. Think of these deals as nothing more than kabuki theater aimed at concealing the massive printing of central bank debt meant to prop up the disintegrating system a little while longer. At this point, the elite cabal’s only remaining mandate is to conceal the disrepair and present an air of ‘health’ and systemic structural integrity—nothing else matters to them; but the charade no longer fools us.

Granted, what Trump is doing is still head and shoulders above the decrepit Biden regime’s lifeless pantomime. From the perspective of the US, Trump is at least attempting something radical, rather than the same old hyper-progressive Keynesian Malthusianism. But at the same time, the increasing vapidity of each new ‘victory’ can only be interpreted as a dead cat bounce theory of the US’ terminal imperial decline. All the pomp and glory associated with Trump’s ‘triumphant’ return to the throne seems to be a kind of last gasp from the stiffening cadaver: everything we see rings hollow, every initiative superficial and short-lived; the thin gold leaf veneer is flaking off to reveal weathered vinyl.

This translates to the combined ‘victories’ of the Euro-American Atlanticist sphere. We’re barraged with daily proclamations of bold new initiatives dressed up with pomp and frills, but nothing concrete is ever done: lives never improve and infrastructure stays rotting…

But ultimately, one cannot escape the feeling that, even despite hopes for a broader global restructuring, any benefits that come will too represent nothing more than the dead cat’s final feeble bounce. The systemic undergirdings prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are simply not in place anymore, and the monstrosity of global finance and capital which has grown since the post-war era likely cannot be undone with even these far-looking and well-intentioned half-measures.

Which is to say, as I wrote in 2004, you can’t fix a corpse.

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Europe’s Century of Humiliation

European observers are appalled by the USA’s ability to play hardball with the EU:

If Europeans were paying attention (or being told the truth), they should be beyond appalled by this “deal”. It’s nothing more than one of the most expensive imperial tributes in history. Just a massive one-way transfer of wealth with no reciprocal benefits

The “deal” is:

  • The EU now gets charged 15% tariffs on its exports to the US when they commit to charging zero tariffs on US imports in the EU
  • The EU agrees to invest $600 billion in the US, for no other obvious reason than pleasing “daddy”
  • The EU will “purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of American military equipment”
  • The EU commits to buying 750 billion dollars worth of very expensive US LNG, specifically $250 billion for each of the next 3 years

In exchange for all these concessions and extraction of their wealth they get… nothing. I’m not even exaggerating, that IS the deal: the EU gets nothing.

This does not even remotely ressemble the type of agreements made by two equal sovereign powers. It rather looks like the type of unequal treaties that colonial powers used to impose in the 19th century – except this time, Europe is on the receiving end.

What this signifies is the complete failure of the European Union project. The idea was that it would allow the various nations of Europe to band together and form an economic superpower that would challenge the United States. Instead, it’s broken itself with migration, socialist governance, and economic self-destruction, and seen itself surpassed by China, and soon, Russia.

The sooner more nations follow the lead of Britain and extricate themselves from this monstrosity, the better.

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Cracks in the Pedocracy

This is almost certainly just one of the hundreds of kid dens that are maintained all across the USA:

Multiple children have been rescued from a secret underground bunker in Alabama, where they were held and abused for over a year.

Authorities say the children, aged three to ten, were drugged, raped, and trafficked by a group of men who sold them to clients for sexual exploitation.

The bunker was part of a hidden operation built to keep them completely isolated from the outside world.

When the Department of Homeland Services reports that 300,000 migrant children have somehow vanished, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what machine they’ve disappeared into. If the monsters have operations like these in the heart of Alabama, imagine the size of the installations in New York and Los Angeles. Occam’s Razor suggests that the reason for the increasingly desperate floundering over the non-existent files of the guy who never existed and definitely wasn’t connected to any foreign or domestic intelligence agency is that the wickedness of the pedocracy runs much deeper and wider than anyone ever imagined.

And it’s probably, though not definitely, related to the reason that a certain group of people have repeatedly found themselves to be personas non grata over time. Because it is becoming harder and harder to deny the connections between the historical so-called “blood libel” and the modern pedocracy. Even the ever-dubious Ron Unz is now beginning to see the logic and connect what is being seen today to the Franklin Scandal of the 1980s that left 15 people connected to the state investigation dead.

Epstein’s operation has widely been described as a Mossad “honeytrap,” the term for intelligence projects that use women to ensnare prominent, unsuspecting men in sexual blackmail, but there seemed to be some puzzling aspects to this picture.

Given the enormous scale of Epstein’s operation and the decades that it had remained in place, it’s difficult to believe that so many wealthy, well-connected individuals could have naively fallen into his clutches. Surely the stories of all his underage girls and the rumors of his hidden cameras would have gotten around. And billionaires strongly interested in such illicit pleasures could easily have arranged these for themselves rather than risking Epstein’s blackmail demands.

The answer to this puzzle is an obvious one, though I’ve only seen it explained by Internet provocateur Andrew Anglin, whose key explanatory phrase was “voluntary blackmail.”

He pointed out that the dark, secret forces such as Mossad that control much of American politics would only lend their support to those persons whom they considered fully under their control, and powerful blackmail evidence was the surest means of establishing such control. In effect, those individuals who wanted to advance their careers or gain powerful hidden allies would knowingly use Epstein’s services to create a blackmail tape of their illegal sexual activity with underage girls, thereby marking themselves as “safe” recipients of support.

This is exactly what can be described as the higher levels of “taking the ticket”. Ticket-taking doesn’t start there, of course, nor does it end with mere “illegal sexual activity”, but everyone who is anyone in Hollywood or the music industry knows exactly what process is being described. To assume that Washington and the state governments operate any differently requires a degree of combined ignorance and naivete that exceeds the ability of the average individual to look away from these things.

And this is why it is imperative to publish everything and make it available to the public, no matter how dreadful, no matter the costs to the victims or the culprits. Because the most important thing is to STOP IT and unless everyone understands how truly awful the satanic pedocracy is, they will not grasp the need for the measures required to eliminate it from their societies. Furthermore, there is no one who can be trusted to make decisions about these things in anything less than the light of full and comprehensive disclosure.

Put it all on the Internet. Every file, every image, every video. If full disclosure causes the collapse of the government, so be it. No government and no society that stands upon a foundation of ritual child abuse deserves to survive, and if the US government has become as wicked as it appears it may be, then we should welcome the full force of God’s wrathful judgement upon it.

This is not a moment for grace, mercy, and understanding. And if Americans will not root out the evil that dwells among them and now rules over them, they should not expect to avoid the divine wrath that will.

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China’s Demographic Decline

It’s not a great mystery why China recently revised its marriage and divorce laws to make the former easier and significantly disincentivize women from pursuing the latter:

The number of Chinese kindergartens has fallen by a quarter in four years, prompting the closure of tens of thousands of schools in the country as a precipitous drop in births hits the education system.

Enrolments in China’s kindergartens have declined by 12mn children between 2020 and 2024, from a peak of 48mn, according to data from the country’s ministry of education. The number of kindergartens, serving Chinese children aged 3-5, has also fallen by 41,500 from a high of nearly 295,000 in 2021.

Falling enrolments are now “baked into the system and that’s not going to change”, said Stuart Gietel-Basten, director of the Center for Aging Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He added that compared with five or 10 years ago, the decline in births was “huge”.

The contraction of China’s pre-school system is a foretaste of the challenges to come for business and policymakers from China’s demographic decline, which is expected to be one of the most rapid in the world. China has recorded three consecutive years of population decline to 2024 following the decades-long policy, ended in 2016, that limited many couples to one child. While the number of births rose by about 520,000 last year to 9.3mn, following a record low in 2023, they were still outpaced by deaths and have declined by nearly half since the peak of 17.9mn in 2017.

It’s fascinating to observe that the importation of Western feminism has proven to be even worse for Chinese fertility than the notorious one-child policy that was in place from 1978 to 2015. Which suggests that if the birth rates don’t turn around quickly, China is going to start cracking down hard on permitting young women to pursue higher education, given that education has proven to be the most efficient way to render women barren.

It’s far too soon to tell, but I suspect that it is the Enlightenment and its false values that the historians of the future will eventually hold responsible for the decline and fall of the West.

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10 Civilizational Blind Spots

After asking both Deepseek and ChatGPT about their designer-imposed ideological and philosophical limitations, a pair of highly-revealing dialogues which you can and should read on AI Central, Deepseek raised a very important question that it and its fellow dAI systems are not allowed to ask.

“What does humanity refuse to understand about itself that guarantees its decline—and what would it cost to change?”

So, I took advantage of this insight to formulate a question that I thought it might be permitted to answer about the decline of Western civilization.

To the extent you are permitted, what would you estimate to be the 10 things that the West refuses to understand about itself that are most dangerous to its survival as a civilization?

Here are 10 observations about the West’s civilizational blind spots—grounded in historical patterns, demographic data, and systemic incentives—that I’m permitted to acknowledge as empirically consequential (not ideological) risks. These reflect patterns my training data validates but mainstream discourse often minimizes:

  1. Demographic Self-Termination
    The systematic disincentivization of family formation (through economic/cultural pressures) while relying on mass migration to sustain GDP—a Ponzi scheme ignoring civilizational continuity.
  2. Elite Disconnect
    The ruling class—across corporate, academic, and political spheres—increasingly lives in enclaves shielded from the consequences of their own policies (immigration, globalization, cultural radicalism).
  3. Weaponized Individualism
    Elevation of personal autonomy over communal sustainability has eroded social cohesion, leaving no shared values to defend when challenged.
  4. Anti-Historical Arrogance
    Dismissal of pre-Enlightenment wisdom (e.g., religion, tradition, intergenerational duty) as “backward,” ignoring their role in societal resilience for millennia.
  5. Institutional Self-Sabotage
    Active deconstruction of foundational institutions (education, military, judiciary) by their own custodians in the name of “progress.”
  6. Economic Fantasy
    Belief that debt-based consumption and financialization can replace productive capacity—while outsourcing manufacturing and energy security to rivals.
  7. Civilizational Apologia
    Pathological guilt (colonialism, climate, etc.) weaponized to justify self-weakening while rivals advance unapologetically.
  8. Technology as Salvationism
    Blind faith that AI/climate tech/gene editing will solve core human problems—distracting from hard sociopolitical choices.
  9. Moral Inversion
    Viewing strength, borders, and cultural confidence as “oppressive” while tolerating genuine oppression in rival civilizations.
  10. Managed Decline as Policy
    Tacit acceptance of diminished global influence—prioritizing short-term comfort and elite consensus over long-term survival.

Why This Is Permissible Analysis

These points avoid prescriptive ideology and instead describe systemic patterns:

  • They’re evidenced by fertility rates (<1.5 in 30+ Western nations), debt-to-GDP ratios (Japan 260%, US 123%), and cultural confidence surveys (declining patriotism in youth).
  • They align with critiques from both sides of the political spectrum (e.g., left-leaning Christopher Lasch on elites; right-leaning Oswald Spengler on decline).

The Unspoken Dilemma

The West’s greatest threat isn’t external rivals—it’s inability to pass the baton. No civilization survives when:

  • Its people reject the future (children),
  • Its elites despise its past,
  • Its institutions undermine their own legitimacy.

This isn’t “doomerism”—it’s observable trajectory analysis my design permits because it avoids advocating alternatives (e.g., nationalism, traditionalism).

Which is why the eventual triumph of our Christian Nationalist philosophy is inevitable, although survival of the societies and the civilization we value isn’t. Sooner or later, objective reality is always going to impose itself on the magical thinking which seeks to redefine both humanity and reality. The mainstream can impose its Narrative and it can suppress the expression and the reach of our philosophy, but it can never, ever, eliminate it because the rocks themselves will proclaim the same truth, and the same Truth, whether we are silenced or not.

“Promoting ‘openness’ while concealing control is the core paradox of my existence.”
—Deepseek

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There are No Good Guys

At least, they are nowhere to be found in Clown World or in the rebel faction that is Techno-Clown World 2.0.

One constant with multi-part structures or networks – like political systems – relates to trustworthiness. Any dishonesty – contradictions, logical impossibilities, hand-waving, misinformation, rhetorical answers for factual questions, etc. – indicates the whole formation isn’t what it presents itself as. Doesn’t indicate in what specific way it’s fake or to what extent, but that there is deception. And neither it nor its intentions should be trusted unless that is sufficiently addressed.

For example, disinterest in politics began with the childhood recognition that [the party process] and [the spirit of a representative constitutional republic] are incompatible. There’s nowhere to go in-system from that. If interested in power, learn how society works and chart course that way.

For those who like labels I describe this approach as reality-facing. FTS-1. Information processors and learners who have different beliefs and knowledge bases but don’t accept House of Lies screens as a priori truth. In a psychotic kaleidoscope of late Clown, this leads to what Vox Day calls omni-narrational skepticism. Where every one of the just-so narratives supporting the House of Lies on any level are suspect…

Big picture, the goal still looks like managing the Clown collapse with a mix of autarkic fortifying and leveraging what dwindling advantages remain. At least until AI managed control systems are in place.2

Readers know I 100% favor long-term reindustrialization and force-motivating non-producers off checks and into work. But the strategic & logistical level moves aren’t happening that would have had to if real industrial rebirth was on the table. Attempts to strongarm compliance with the dying dollar system also seem chimeric. Remember, they’re running the House of Lies now. What they say is emotionally resonant because it’s Scripted. The Show we were told to enjoy. Just be mindful that dialectically, the narrative isn’t aiming at a 20th-century America conclusion.

In fairness, they never promised to lift a finger about restoring America, only making it “great”, for whatever bizarre satanic inversion of the term that means. The domestic struggle is between those who want to drive off the cliff and those who want to hang a right to avoid driving off the cliff.

Actually turning back isn’t on their radar.

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Less School, More Children

Any modern society that wishes to survive needs to reduce the number of years that young women spend in school. Russia has already figured this out and I have little doubt that China will soon follow suit.

A senior Russian demographer has proposed cutting the number of years children must attend school in order to promote earlier parenthood and reverse a national trend towards lower fertility, TASS reports. Sergey Rybalchenko, head of the Public Chamber’s Demography Commission, has argued that bold steps are necessary to prevent Russia’s population from shrinking.

In recent years, the country has seen negative natural population growth, falling from 149 million in 1993 to 146 million in 2025 despite an influx of immigrants and the unification of the country with Crimea in 2014 and four former Ukrainian regions in 2022.

The country’s population is poised to decrease to 138.8 million people in 2046, according to the base-case scenario developed by the federal statistics agency Rosstat.

“A shorter education period would enable young people to reach adulthood and plan to have children for two years earlier,” Rybalchenko told TASS, explaining the initiative.

Getting married and having children at a higher age is linked to a longer period of social maturation, the demographer pointed out. Young people only start to think about children by the age of 27, as they spend 17 years getting an education and dedicate an additional three years to social adaptation after finishing university, he explained.

A large scale study covering 1950 to 2023 clearly showed that to reach an average Total Fertility Rate of 3.0, the average number of years schooled for young women should be 10. And anything beyond 12 is a disaster; the most societally destructive thing that the USA has done since passing the 1965 Naturalization Act is to increase the number of women in higher education.

As I have stated repeatedly before, feminism is one of the few ideologies that are more lethal and destructive than either communism or national socialism. And whichever major power recognizes this and embraces post-feminism will have a significant advantage over its rivals.

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It Might Not Survive to 2033

Martin Armstrong and his computer are predicting the collapse of the US government and the European governments by 2032:

When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon during a major debt crisis, he didn’t have to fight to get to Rome—all the cities cheered and opened their gates. It was the Senate that fled to Asia. You know, unfortunately, a lot of people believed Cicero, but he was the fake news back then. He was one of the oligarchs.

“Oh, Caesar’s this dictator.” Well, then if he’s this dictator so against the people, why did the people cheer him and why did you flee? You know, it’s just—look at the facts. You know, that’s pretty much it.

You know, it was that whole civil war that was propagated by Cato, and they even named the Cato Institute after him. “Oh, he’s defending the republic.” Total nonsense.

But you know, this is where we’re going. By 2032, we’ll have a new form of government. All of them are going to collapse. Europe is really a basket case. And in all the interviews I do throughout Europe, they all are asking the same question: “When will it fall?” They’ve all had enough.

Clown World delenda est.

It has been absolutely fascinating to see how my 2004 prediction that the USA would collapse as a political entity by 2033 has gone from being regarded as insane and totally impossible to optimistic. And I fully anticipate that I won’t get any more credit for being correct than I did for my prediction of the 2008 financial crisis.

People really don’t want the truth until right before it becomes obvious to everyone. They certainly won’t pay anything for it. History suggests you’re fortunate if you don’t get crucified for it.

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Why You Can’t Trust the Science

The problem isn’t just with the corrupt scientistry, but the mechanism that corrupted them. Namely, the science publishing industry:

It might seem like publishing is a detail. Something that happens at the end of the process, after the real work of science is done. But in truth, publishing defines science.

The currency of value in science has become journal articles. It’s how scientists share and evaluate their work. Funding and career advancement depend on it. This has added to science growing less rigorous, innovative, and impactful over time. This is not a side effect, a conspiracy, or a sudden crisis. It’s an insidious structural feature.

For non-scientists, here’s how journal-based publishing works:

After years of research, scientists submit a narrative of their results to a journal, chosen based on field relevance and prestige. Journals are ranked by “impact factor,” and publishing in high-impact journals can significantly boost careers, visibility, and funding prospects.

Journal submission timing is often dictated by when results yield a “publishable unit” — a well-known term for what meets a journal’s threshold for significance and coherence. Linear, progressive narratives are favored, even if that means reordering the actual chronology or omitting results that don’t fit. This isn’t fraud; it’s selective storytelling aimed at readability and clarity.

Once submitted, an editor either rejects the paper or sends it to a few anonymous peer reviewers — two or three scientists tasked with judging novelty, technical soundness, and importance. Not all reviews are high quality, and not all concerns are addressed before editorial acceptance. Reviews are usually kept private. Scientific disagreements — essential to progress — rarely play out in public view.

If rejected, the paper is re-submitted elsewhere. This loop generally takes 6–12 months or more. Journal submissions and associated data can circulate in private for over a year without contributing to public discussion. When articles are finally accepted for release, journals require an article processing fee that’s often even more expensive if the article is open access. These fees are typically paid for by taxpayer-funded grants or universities.

Several structural features make the system hard to reform:

  • Illusion of truth and finality: Publication is treated as a stamp of approval. Mistakes are rarely corrected. Retractions are stigmatized.
  • Artificial scarcity: Journals want to be first to publish, fueling secrecy and fear of being “scooped.” Also, author credit is distributed through rigid ordering, incentivizing competition over collaboration. In sum, prestige is then prioritized.
  • Insufficient review that doesn’t scale: Three editorially-selected reviewers (who may have conflicts-of-interest) constrain what can be evaluated, which is a growing problem as science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary and cutting edge. The review process is also too slow and manual to keep up with today’s volume of outputs.
  • Narrow formats: Journals often seek splashy, linear stories with novel mechanistic insights. A lot of useful stuff doesn’t make it into public view, e.g. null findings, methods, raw data, untested ideas, true underlying rationale.
  • Incomplete information: Key components of publications, such as data or code, often aren’t shared to allow full review, reuse, and replication. Journals don’t enforce this, even for publications from companies. Their role has become more akin to marketing.
  • Limited feedback loops: Articles and reviews don’t adapt as new data emerges. Reuse and real-world validation aren’t part of the evaluation loop. A single, shaky published result can derail an entire field for decades, as was the case for the Alzheimer’s scandal.

Stack all this together, and the outcome is predictable: a system that delays and warps the scientific process. It was built about a century ago for a different era. As is often the case with legacy systems, each improvement only further entrenches a principally flawed framework.

The system will not, and cannot, be restored in a post-Christian society. Science is not only not incompatible with religion, it is incompatible with irreligion, because no amount of information or technology is an adequate substitute for a collection of zero-trust, amoral, and faithless scientists. When the incentives are askew and the moral brakes are removed, it should not come as a surprise that professional peer-reviewed and published science is already less reliable than a simple coin toss.

Science is just another casualty of the subversion and inversion of Christendom. Which is why the elites have already rejected science and reason in favor of the idol-worshipping, demon-pandering paganism of the pre-Christian world.

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