There was a time when it was almost true that Britannia ruled the waves. That day is of course long gone. Similarly, the time when it seemed that the USA could act as the world’s warder and policeman, is now ending. In both cases there was a relatively simple scenario facing these two in the times when they saw their empires of dominance stretching on forever. But every wave crests and falls, every civilisation yet known has traversed the same path, a steady rise to a peak of power and influence before an inevitable decline and progressive loss of both. We now see the empire of North America rapidly descending that slope toward its ever weakening grasp on power and influence. And it will not rise again. Like an old man whose dotage informs him that he is not what he used to be, the instinct in the first instance is to use all the power that’s left him to resist. But his strength fails more with each passing day until eventually, after all his struggles have been to know avail, he acknowledges reality at last and submits himself to the inevitable. The world has long since stopped making the sense it once did. What were once simple tasks are no more, each once familiar area of control becomes more confusing by the day until the moment when all around loses meaning and he withdraws into himself ready to face the end. The world that the political and media elites of the USA used to see as their fiefdom, playground and even backyard is no longer that easily cajoled, controlled, manipulated and easily threatened into line place. The old certainties are gone, the levers of power have seized up and the threatening words that got others to obey fall on deaf ears. What is worse, these others have begun to laugh in mockery and behind that laugh is an intent to repay the misdeeds they suffered under all the years they can remember. The political and media elites of the USA with their concepts of superiority and an egotistical exceptionalism where they looked down their noses at their supposed inferiors and sought to manipulate them to their benefit have had their day. And now it’s over. The world has become too complex for the simplistic solutions the U.S. and UK elites found convenient and easy to apply. Others have become far too powerful and interconnected to allow these two dictatorial elites any continuance of their brutal rule. And it’s payback time, some may call it karma. Whatever name is given it, whether quarantine or strait-jacket, the time when the power of these two (and their EU minions) could act in unbridled fashion and ride roughshod over others, is over. As they fall into their dotage as elites and try to continue acting as if they were sprightly young powers they will quickly be disabused of these ideas. Their arrogance, still displayed will be met with a sneer and mockery. And their foolish, age- old impudence, will then be enthusiastically punished as it is only right it should be.
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