To live in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruellest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.

— The Warhammer 40,000 Epigraph, Imperium Maledictum Edition

It has been a full 25 years since the event that defined our modern era. I do not need to waste time describing what happened on September 11, 2001; everyone reading this, can recall, with near perfect clarity, exactly what he was doing at 9am EST on that fateful day. In my case, I walked down the staircase of our house at the time, saw my family sitting glued to the TV in the living room, and noticed something on the screen that looked like some sort of crazy action film. Even seeing the logo, “CNN”, in the corner, did not change my initial thought that I must be looking at some kind of strange movie.

It was only when my father told me that New York City had been attacked, that I realised the full enormity of the event – and that I was watching real people die.

The next day was one of shock, horror, and grief at school. Nobody could quite figure out what to do in class. We didn’t even really have an English lesson. Our teacher very wisely chose to simply let us all talk through what we were feeling – and not in the gay modern therapy way, but in the sense of just letting us express our disorientation and misery.

In the years subsequent to that one, we saw the United States invade Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden, and overthrow the Taliban in record time. Drunk with success, and insisting that Iraq somehow had a live and ongoing WMD programme, the US then attacked and destroyed Iraq. What followed was two decades of gruelling “high intensity police actions” that drained the US of TRILLIONS of dollars that should have been spent on domestic purposes; the worst financial crisis since 1929; and a protracted, painful, very uneven recovery that still, to this day, has not fully dealt with the root causes of the crisis that brought about the crash.

Then, in 2020, we saw the Coof, and we witnessed how governments around the world overreacted to what was essentially a very bad flu and shut us all into our homes. We saw the colossal overreach of state power, and the economic consequences that unleashed severe inflation on us all, as financial markets teetered close to collapse again in late 2019, with Convid serving as a useful pretext to allow those markets to stabilise.

In 2022, we saw Russia, pushed to the brink, commit to an economy-of-force mission in Ukraine that very nearly succeeded in bringing real peace to the region – and then, we saw the West intervene, to support Ukraine in that war, with the explicit and avowed goal of inflicting a decisive defeat on Russia.

And in 2025 and then again in 2026, we saw President Trump betray the very people who voted him into office, and attack Iran – for absolutely no good reason whatsoever, other than to serve the will of the elites who financed his rise.

It is not an exaggeration to say that, if someone wrote out fictionalised versions of these events for the Games Workshops Warhammer 40,000 novel series, they would be immediate hits and bestsellers. After all, this is not far away from the kind of thing described in books like Horus Rising and The Lost and the Damned – good books, well worth reading.

Now, in the WH40K universe, the entire tagline and ethos of the whole setting boils down to the catchphrase that GW uses: “in the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war”. Well, we do not need to wait until the far future. We are in it right now.

Twenty-five years was an eternity when I was young. Looking back, I am shocked to think about how quickly it went by. That timespan is but an eyeblink in the age of our race. An entire generation has grown up knowing nothing of the world that existed before 9/11. I did know what it was like, and I do remember how good things were before then. The current generation will never know the kinds of freedoms that we all once enjoyed, before governments presumed to take them away from us – without reason, justification, or purpose, other than the simple and blunt exercise of raw, naked force against a supine and fearful population.

The events of the past 25 years have proved to my mind, beyond a doubt, that you can convince billions of people to believe the most ridiculous lies possible. You will still find most Americans absolutely convinced that the Twin Towers fell entirely due to being hit by two airliners, piloted by Saudi Arabians who somehow managed to get past every possible security red flag and their own lack of training, and at least one of whose passports somehow miraculously survived temperatures that burned human bones into ash and melted steel into liquid. Many still think that WTC 7 fell into its own footprint, perfectly neatly, due to damage suffered from the original Twin Tower collapses.

Most refuse to believe that “America’s best friend”, Israel, had anything whatsoever to do with it – or that the very suspicious financial trades that happened in the days and weeks before the event, were anything other than a massive coincidence.

It is quite enough to make you despair for the future of the human race. And perhaps we should. The world that followed from 9/11 proved, slowly, inexorably, and without any hope of a do-over, that the American government was absolutely dedicated to the total destruction of the American people.

The last 25 years have seen America transform itself into a true globe-spanning empire – and has seen the fall of that empire with breathtaking speed. America has now lost every single major war it has fought since WWII, with ONE exception – and that too against a third-rate Iraqi military that was completely overwhelmed and outmatched in 1991, in a special case that has no relevance to modern warfare. The US has now been conclusively defeated by a third-rate power in the Persian Gulf, and by a fifth-rate one in the Red Sea.

The only reason anyone continues to believe the fiction of American dominance and empire, is because China does not yet feel the need to inflict a decisive and undeniable naval defeat on an overstretched, poorly manned, and logistically creaky US Navy.

We are living through the grimdark age that followed on from 9/11. There is little that we can do to change it – this must be endured before the final and absolute collapse of the American Empire finally comes. We can only hope and pray that whatever comes afterwards, will be a little fairer, a little more transparent – and a little less amenable to (((Small Hat))) manipulation.

Indeed, those same (((Small Hats))) really ought to start planning their escape routes. Once people finally realise just how deep in blood the (((Tribe))) really is by this point, they will realise that the Spaniards, the English, and the Russians, were absolutely right to expel their native populations of the same peoples.

I will close as I opened, on a personal note. I ended up working not far away from the site of the WTC. I had multiple opportunities to visit the reflecting pool and memorial site in the area, once the One WTC complex finally opened up – in fact, I walked through that entire construction site for years on my way to work. I literally worked on Wall Street at the time, and I saw with my own two eyes how that whole area was transformed over the course of six years.

And I can say, from first-hand experience, that America learned nothing from the excesses and failures of 9/11.

The country made the same mistakes, over and over again, that led to the intensifying series of crises we now all face. It will continue to make those mistakes until its final collapse comes – and that appears to me to be not very far off. The Empire has suffered multiple and decisive defeats. Once the failure of Project Ukraine becomes truly and undeniably apparent, and the grift finally stops, there will be nowhere left to hide and run – and then, we shall see the results of nearly 30 years of failure and collapse come to fruition.