{"id":38275,"date":"2018-09-25T11:09:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38275"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T16:09:01","slug":"naked-emperors-dont-get-much-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38275","title":{"rendered":"Naked Emperors Don\u2019t Get Much Respect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naked Emperors Don\u2019t Get Much Respect<\/a><\/h3>\n
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What happens when most of your military infrastructure is suddenly obsolete?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The emperor was the last to realize he was naked. This is not unusual, emperors are the last to find out anything. Who has the fortitude to tell them the truth, especially an upsetting truth? And so it is with the US\u2019s empire, the existence of which most of its citizens, media organs, and officials are unaware or won\u2019t acknowledge. The truth is, the American empire, acknowledged or not, is over. It will be years before that\u2019s accepted by the governing class. They\u2019ll never officially inform their subjects, who are stuck with the tab for its immensely wasteful spending.<\/p>\n

Empires are built on military strength. The American empire was no exception. Many Americans still think the US military enjoys the dominance it had back in 1946, a notion Vladimir Putin buried March 1. On that date he announced new weaponry which will render our naval surface fleet, ground forces, worldwide bases, and antiballistic systems obsolete (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>). The US military leadership has grudgingly acknowledged many of Putin\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n

The unmistakable conclusion: most US military spending is the welfare state with epaulets. It pays for weapons, bases, and personnel whose uselessness would be revealed within half an hour after a non-nuclear war with Russia began. We have no conventional defenses against Russia\u2019s new weaponry.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cold comfort that US land installation, submarine, and airborne nuclear deterrents are still relevant. If Russia or anyone else launched a conventional or nuclear attack against us, we can annihilate the aggressor. The destruction we bore would be matched in kind, but the planet might be rendered uninhabitable.<\/p>\n

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Naked Emperors Don\u2019t Get Much Respect What happens when most of your military infrastructure is suddenly obsolete? The emperor was the last to realize he was naked. This is not unusual, emperors are the last to find out anything. Who has the fortitude to tell them the truth, especially an upsetting truth? And so it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3602,130,12280,694,12281,827],"class_list":["post-38275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-american-empire","tag-china","tag-robert-gore","tag-russia","tag-straight-line-logic","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38276,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38275\/revisions\/38276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}