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After America: Get Ready for Armageddon is a non-fiction book authored by socio-political commentator Mark Steyn, being published in 2011 by Regnery.In the work, he asserts that the United States has placed itself onto a trajectory towards decline and eventual collapse due to different trends in its history, a path that he states has been set out previously by other nations of the Western world.
Paul Kennedy posits that continued deficit spending, especially on military build-up, is the single most important reason for decline of any great power. The costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were as of 2017 estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion, which Kennedy deems a major victory for Osama bin Laden, whose announced goal was to humiliate America by showcasing its casualty ...
The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven.The strategy aims to utilize "militant anti poverty groups" to facilitate a "political crisis" by overloading the welfare system via an increase in welfare claims, forcing the creation of a system of guaranteed minimum income and ...
“The U.S. has not had a problem since 2008, 2009 — that's the longest in American history,” he stated. “America, and therefore the world, is long overdue for a problem.”
An optimistic President Joe Biden declared Wednesday he is confident the U.S. will avoid an unprecedented and potentially catastrophic debt default, saying talks with congressional Republicans ...
The title of the book points at the sharp decline in stock prices following the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers in September, 2008. Meanwhile, its subtitle reveals Stiglitz's conviction that free markets are at the bottom of the crisis, as he makes deregulation responsible for the rise of the shadow banking system, over-leveraged banks and subprime mortgages.
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Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Emmanuel Todd argues that the U.S. political elite failed to develop a coherent long-term strategy. Instead, they opted for the path of least resistance, a course that lacked strategic consistency even when informed by frameworks like Zbigniew Brzezinski's vision outlined in The Grand Chessboard .