Every empire dies the same way. Not by invasion. Not by revolution. But by misreading its enemies and overestimating itself.
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Every empire dies the same way.
Not by invasion.
Not by revolution.
But by misreading its enemies and overestimating itself.
It begins with forgetting that the world sees what it does, not what it says.
That the bombed remember more vividly than the bomber.
That the tortured carry the truth longer than the torturer carries his medals.
Washington still believes it can lie to the world and be believed.
It calls theft sanctions.
Murder democracy.
Genocide self-defense.
It arms apartheid and sells it as stability.
It funds the burning of Gaza and calls it a peace process.
It buries children beneath rubble and demands a Nobel Prize for restraint.
And now, as the empire lashes out in decline, it crowns a narcissist to shout its delusions louder.
Trump believes diplomacy is a deal.
That threats are leverage.
That enemies break under pressure if you tweet hard enough.
He thinks Iran should surrender because he said so.
That Palestinians should disappear because it’s inconvenient to feel anything.
That history owes him applause just for showing up.
But reality does not negotiate with delusion.
Not in Tehran.
Not in Beijing.
Not in Moscow.
Not in Gaza.
Trump was not a break from the American empire.
He was its mirror.
Loud. Vulgar. Ahistorical.
Blind to consequence.
Obsessed with obedience.
He did not end the wars.
He monetized them.
He did not expose the deep state.
He gave it a new marketing team.
He did not make America great.
He made it unmistakably seen for what it is.
An empire that cannot see itself cannot see its end.
And Israel, the spoiled child of this dying order, mistakes indulgence for invincibility.
It thinks America’s protection is eternal.
That impunity is a divine right.
That deterrence is the same as legitimacy.
But it is not the world of 1948 anymore.
It is not even the world of 2008.
The myth of moral authority has collapsed under the weight of too many mass graves.
The Global South is not asking for permission anymore.
It is not begging for justice.
It is building something new.
And when the empire calls that chaos, what it really means is that its victims have stopped playing by its rules.
This is how all empires fall.
They hear warning as weakness.
They mistake silence for submission.
They assume the pain they inflict will never be returned.
Until it is.
And then they ask why the world turned its back.
But the world never turned.
It simply moved on.
Because every empire dies the same way.
By misreading its enemies.
And by believing the mirror instead of the map.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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