Comments on: The tragedy of the lost generation

By: Max Wiley

Max Wiley — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:10:26 +0000

George F. Kennan, former ambassador to Russia, architect of the Cold War containment strategy, and one of the US’ foremost statesmen before he was canceled and erased for objecting to the Kissinger foreign policy orthodoxy of the 60’s and 70’s, once said that in order to counter the Soviet Union’s dreams of Empire, the United States would have to become well nigh upon an Empire itself, and having fundamentally transformed itself in order to do so would likely have difficulty returning to founding principles.
A very prescient man.
That’s exactly what happened.
And now Pax Americana falters itself.
My words: “To become an Empire is to start the Empire cycle.” By my counting, the US Empire began when it started to play the Great Powers games under TR with the Great White Fleet. That means the clock is sitting at about 125 years.

By: Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:54:32 +0000

Well said. I remember right after the event that everyone, and I mean everyone, had an American flag sticker on their car, including the NASCAR race the next weekend, where every team had one on the car somewhere and some teams removed the sponsors altogether and did patriotic schemes. I remember several singers coming out with songs about how great America is. Yes it was a bit corny, and we were a fracturing country even then, but it’s unfathomable that you would see that kind of response today. Shows how far we’ve fallen in 25 short years.

By: Randale6

Randale6 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:49:35 +0000

I remember watching it on a grainy 480p TV when I was small, I got to witness the tail end of the joyful times before 9/11 came about. All I can say is this…kikes delenda est. We know who the fuck did it.