MORE ON WHY NATIONS AND EMPIRES FALL
Ozodi Osuji
Below is a section of the paper I wrote yesterday on Why Nations and Empires fall; it was getting too specifically focused on the USA, and I had to remove it. I did not want to focus on any particular country but merely posit psychological reasons why nations and empires fail.
ONE THE CURRENT US POWER GRAB
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the USA and the USSR emerged as the two main powers in the world. Western Europeans, the hitherto major powers, had destroyed themselves in war, and two new powers emerged to rule the world, a world that Europe had ruled. The USA and USSR pretty much determined what happened in the world until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
After the collapse of the USSR in 1991, the USA became the unchallenged sole superpower in the world. There were no other military and economic powers that could challenge America’s supremacy; she became the world’s sole hegemon and could pretty much do whatever she wanted to do and get away with it.
What are you going to do to the USA? It has sufficient nuclear weapons to eviscerate the entire world, and economic power to literally dictate to all the countries of the world what to do. It is doubtful that there was a time in the past when one country had such immense power.
In the past, what happened was that when a country became powerful, its neighbors strove to be as powerful as it was to balance the power between them because they realized that if only one country were powerful, it could oppress the others; indeed, it could chase the people away and take over their lands; it could even decide to kill the people (as was done to Native Americans).
Traditionally, international relations and world politics, at least beginning with Austria’s Prince Von Metternich’s orchestrated European Concert, after the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, are based on having many centers of power, a multipolar world, but here we are now with only one serious power in the world.
Europeans felt protected by the American military umbrella and apparently did not worry too much about their servile situation. But if the USA said jump, they jumped. For example, the USA went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and major European powers went with it regardless of whether their national interests were involved or not. The military boss is fighting, so you send in your boys to go fight and die for him.
American leaders, aware of their unique situation, gradually became proud and insufferable. But whereas most of them pretended to be equal to their European partners and looked down on Third World Countries, it was not until the second Presidency of Donald Trump that the world was shown the arrogance of American power. America’s President is now so proud that he robs it in the face of his European allies. He apparently believes that they are so dependent on his military that they cannot challenge his dictates.
He threatened to annex Greenland, a territory belonging to a NATO member, Denmark; he threatened to invade Canada and make it the fifty first state of the USA and Canada is a NATO member; he imposed stiff tariffs on his European allies (plus on non-allies such as China); he threatened to invade the ancient country called Iran; he sent his military into Venezuela to kidnap that country’s president, Maduro, and wants to take the oil in Venezuela; he lobs a few missiles into Nigeria and as we speak has landed some of his expeditionary troops in Nigeria and if he really wanted it could annex Nigeria, after all that Nigeria, the corruption capital of the world, is a big for nothing country.
The US President apparently now sees himself and his country as so powerful that nobody can challenge them.
Domestically, he hired a bunch of his followers into what is called ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and unleashed them on American cities, particularly on cities and states where the people did not vote for him in the last presidential election. These new SS and Gestapo are going from house to house asking people for their immigration papers. If one is undocumented, they and their children are apprehended and sent to the concentration camps set up all over the country. After being abused for being in the country illegally, they are finally bundled into planes and sent to their home countries or to any country that would accept them.
If the ICE-occupied states show any kind of opposition to his authoritarian rule, he sends in the National Guard to slap the leaders around.
He has cut money that ordinarily goes to states because they opposed his policies; he cut research money to top universities until they agreed to become subservient to him; he is renaming national monuments with his name, such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. He is proposing to build a triumphant Arch for himself in Washington DC. He has intimidated the media, especially the major newspapers and television broadcasting corporations, to the point that they now exist to sing his praises.
This man is now so powerful that he plays God. And this is despite a nefarious history of having all kinds of deviant sex with underage children, boys, and girls, as the newly released Epstein files show.
We now have a new power-drunk Adolf Hitler running around in our midst. The antichrist is now in the world browbeating people to serve his ginormous ego, his desire to replace the real Christ and his father, God, and rule the world; the man has intimidated the people into obeying his malignant narcissistic wishes. Now we know from experience about state terrorism.
Black and brown people are especially harassed and intimidated into silence, or else they are arrested and maltreated, even killed. To fascists, human life has no value; only the greater Führer’s life has value (as his body is decaying before our eyes).
Adolf Hitler was on so many drugs to heal his Parkinsonian disease that his limbs shook all the time, yet he could not see how weak he was and kept up the pretentious act of being a very powerful man; we all are going to die and our bodies eaten by worms, so we are not powerful.
Power is intoxicating, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; what we see in the USA is the use of absolute power, including using that power to enrich himself and his cronies.
How do you think that this madness will end? Adolf Hitler and his Nazis lasted twelve years; the entire world gathered to fight the most powerful anti-Christ, Hitler, and brought them to their knees.
One envisages the entire world ganging together and fighting the USA, and in the end, the country will be reduced to rubble as Hitler’s Germany was reduced. Exercise of absolute power humiliates people, and those humiliated try to rehabilitate their injured egos and pride and fight to the death to do so. One sees a fight to the death between the USA and other countries, perhaps led by China.
What is obvious to one is that lunacy must be cured, or else there will be no peace in the world. This man’s power drunkenness, and consequent lunacy are why great empires fall, and before our very eyes, the USA is destroying itself.
Ozodi Osuji
February 5, 2026
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