Like Cicero in the Roman Republic, there are always a handful of chroniclers who can see and articulate clearly the social, cultural, and political realities of empires in terminal decline. They call out the bankruptcy of an inept and corrupt ruling class, blinded by hubris, as well as a populace that has checked out of civic life and is entranced by bread and circus spectacles. In his trilogy “Blowback,†“The Sorrows of Empire,†and “Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic,†Chambers Johnson does a masterful job of showing how and why we are disintegrating. So does Andrew Bacevich, who, in his newest book of essays, “On Shedding an Obsolete Past: Bidding Farewell to the American Century,†writes about the debacles that have beset the American empire since the Vietnam war, a conflict he fought in as a young army officer. Bacevich warns that Americans’ inability to be self-critical, to dissect and understand the litany of disasters that have followed on the heels of Vietnam, including decades of fruitless warfare in the Middle East, will have terrible consequences for us and much of the rest of the globe.
Andrew Bacevich is a retired army colonel and Emeritus Professor of History and International Relations at Boston University. He is the cofounder and president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and the author of numerous books, including “The New American Militarism,†“The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism,†“America’s War for the Greater Middle East,†and “After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed.â€
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Neo-cons and neo-libs all agree give the Zionest government of Israel undying support. The Zionest government of Israel controls America and now that control is showing the world just who is in control of America.
complacency and corruption
First of all you not chosen by God. Gid would have to come on to earth in a physical form and say that to everybody in the world directly for it to be true. IRL and not now a some old made up storys That's been changed around over the last 500 years.
What makes you a chosen person in the first f**** place. That's not how the creator works… Maybe in made up man religion… But thats now how The soul and spirit in the energy around us works. Just because a book says something you evil people go ahead and start killing people over your own lies
Go get a vaccine
Did he actually write the book? Seems to be caught off guard by his own words.
I can’t believe the US government thinks like that
MYTH
13:30' Supplanting History is Oganic , Rather than contrived ' ' Ooght TO BE ORGANIC BUTOM UP / 1690 Project ..
22:00 Comparison Of Vietnam / Iraq
27:15 Conservative With RadicleTwist/ Incrumentalism/FDR New Deal So White
The world did, 1776, so you know, they did 2001 too
Love this documentaries
All we were doing in Vietnam was protecting and stealing a resource….. RUBBER! And a little bit of Opium to fund black ops didn't hurt their feelings I'm sure.
America would have won the war in Afghanistan, all they had to do is declared victory after Osama Bin ladens termination and then LEAVE THE F*CKING COUNTRY. BOOM 🤯 VICTORY.
This myth is sustained by propaganda in the public school system… Especially the Pledge of Allegiance. Making our children declare fealty to a government before that child has the maturity to understand the implications is simply Brain Washing.
Search for Patrick Lancaster if you want to see whats happening in Donbas and Ukraine directly from the ground since 2014.
Julian hit the nail on the head. Anyone who opposes the never ending wars of the USA is in great danger be they a journalist or a USA president such as JFK or a Beetle like John Lennon or a Princess.
Now everything is ethnic and obsessed with skin color
This guy in the same breath has the nerve to criticize the US for not quickly jumping to the aid of Britain during WII and also criticize the US now, for trying to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian invasion and rape. He accuses the US of engaging in a proxy war when in reality we are defending humanity against brutal dictators while sparing American lives. Putin and Xi are bent on destroying the US make no mistake. These so called historians are nothing but traitors to the US and collaborators to Putin and Xi Jinping, they are nothing but foreign agents who deserve to be treated like that. There is nothing real about this so called Real News Network, what a joke and people are buying this nonsense like hot cakes. Unreal.
AMERICA OF COURSE MATT GAETZ WAS RIGHT. MC CARTHY WAS MAKING DEALS TO GET UKRAINE FUNDED WHILE AMERICA ITSELF WAS LEFT FALLING APART. THE DEBT IS BEYOND OUT OF CONTROL. ONLY THE BLIND OR TOTALLY MINDLESS CANNOT SEE THE USA IS IN TROUBLE. LOOK AT THE DEM CITIES, THE CRIME, THE BORDER, THE DOLLAR & TREASURY SITUATION AND YOU CAN SEE WHY WE CANNOT KEEP DOING WHAT BIDEN, BETRAYS US, KIRBY, SULLIVAN, PELOSI, SCHUMEY, NADLER, GRAHM WANT & THAT BE KEEP FUNDING ZINKY AND KEEP DOING LITTLE FOR AMERICA. THANK GAETZ, HE IS TRYING. OH AS MEDIA CBS, NBC, WA PO, NYT ETC SAY. UK SAY 24/7 365 ZINKY & UK WINNING THE WAR, RUSSIA IS COLLAPSING & ALL IN AMERICA IS GREAT HA HA HA
Empires die by giving into the weak and stupid. Help them but don’t be stupid.
Good points are made but I think its not quite right. The description of a countries failure describes the attitudes of the deep state and permanent Washington, the people just have no power to do anything about it.
I'm grateful I grew up in America when it was the best country in history. I got to enjoy it all.
It hurts watching this country destroyed from within by ignorant and lazy people. Grateful I'm close to making my exit…..
As an outside observer with a hint of optomism to throw upon the flames of terminal decline that you and many people see on the horizon, may I say that America's 20-year-long effort to turn around a feudal nation has to be regarded also in the fact that it may look like an abject failure on paper, but let us remember that American and its allies came in to a land governed by warlords, got it up on its feet, trained the military, put things right as far as getting equal rights for women etc., and low and behold, after 20 years, the Afghans acted like it was 20 days when America and its allies pulled out. They acted like they learned nothing at all and they were willing to let the Taliban come in and take over put their women into the Middle Ages and there was no resistance to speak of. How can this be? My question is full of anger and my heated way of asking it is what in the hell is wrong with Afghanistan men? How could they behave like docile school children and let a rogue bunch of bandits take over their country and subjugate their women so helplessly when they had learned how to run a modern society. Why did they abandon two decades of help from a handful of countries? It's a crime against humanity that the Afghanistan men act like slaves; it's not America's fault for cutting the umbilical cord after 20 years—you can’t hold their hand forever! Lastly, America is crumbling to dust but your empire has a long way to go before anything even close to civil unrest brings down the American myth. What all of us have to remember is that the digital age is responsible for what we see leveling society as it used to be before the age of technical enlightenment was upon us. Young people will glide through the turmoil as the world and your country as you know it becomes something unrecognizable. In truth, AI is going to be sculpting as the new landscape and an unrecognizable society very soon. The old ways are always hard to say goodbye to, but we have to admit that it's all going up in smoke, but your country will rise above the ashes of the golden ages’ past. A new way of life is emerging that is hard to stomach for people who have seen what a world looks like built and run by humans. However; this is all going to change, because our world is going to have masters that will make what we have known before disappear in a heartbeat. We cannot find comfort in knowing the new way of life will make our old way of life seem to be from another era, but that is exactly what is happening all around us.
The world was transformed when the bible was written. It was transformed into the Image that the powers that wanted it to be!!!
Why is Chris Hedges so "concerned" about the fall of the Evil Empire anyway?
Since there never was an Empire with the resources that we have. I don't know how it will happen.
NOTHING is forever! Maybe death.
The worst people among us rose to the top while losing the 20 year terror war. The US military is a dirt bag meritocracy now.
Good one
The so-called "god's chosen people " destroyed America.
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When empire dies then rebirth and growth create something better.
Having read Morris Berman's prophetic book, The Twilight of American Culture, when it was published, I've since just been watching it all unfold, the decline of Empire, gaining more momentum each year, like a runaway train.
The US Empire seems to be collapsing faster than those of earlier times. Self inflicted wounds seldom cure themselves. Corruption & Wars are their downfall.
The story that America saved Europe from Hitler in 1945 is a myth. It was Russia that saved Europe. America’s involvement was much later. Russian troops liberated Europe from Nazism. American is now under under Zionist control, hence the proxy wars in the Middle East. There is no wisdom in the White House or Washington in general. AIPAC runs Congress and controls the U.S. military. America’s demise was inevitable. Tragic for all Americans.
The same old Hedges trope. Follow the money that funds his tired diatribes
Once again your program has hit the target. I always come away with a different perspective after hearing you and COL. Bacevich. Knowing the history of the two wars Vietnam ,and the war in Iraq the country was pointed down the wrong path by the politicians. And it took the young people of this nation to say hey Government you are wrong. Coupled with the Black movement of that time this nation and its leaders still have not learned a thing. We must support this channel and your guest who are not afraid to raise the proper issue, and take it head on. Thank You Both for you efforts.
"I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend & foe render it useless as a means of settling International Conflict." General Douglas MacArthur
Americans jewel in the crown is what we produce, what we make, our Working Class is our Gold. Not our terratorializing around the world. We seem to wreck who ever we try to same or colonize. The British did Empire wonderfully. We know this because of what they built and left and is still standing and revered in their Commonwealth today. We build bunker structures instead of beautiful bridges. We steal instead trade. Our graft is unsurpassed. We still think and want to believe Russia is still the USSR, when it’s not. It has a very small communist Party, it’s why more Capitalistic then we want to know. They’ve rebuilt all those magnificent Churches the Bolsheviks tore down.
The creation of the CIA was our downfall. We haven’t won a war since WWII. Our waring is a Business. It has nothing to do with spreading this weird new definition of democracy.
The woke crap will kill us. Absolutely no Country of any consequence wants it in any shape or form. Notice I said of any consequence. The UK is of no consequence now. It’s becoming a conquered Island.
I think Thomas Jefferson was wonderful that he had a relationship with his staff. He loved her obviously, and hopefully sired children. This should be celebrated.
As for DJT, in happen to be a friend of Dorothy, and I’m voting for him. He can’t be bribed, or bought off. Yes, he’s tasteless, but he’s a CEO. The USA is a Company, and we are invested stockholders….each and every one of us. Had Biden simply carried on the oil drilling in the US, Putin gained big time because Biden ended Trumps US oil drilling. Putin naturally saw $$$. I could care less about “The Ukraineâ€. They don’t sound like very nice people, and the neocons alike are not nice people as with me as a stockholders interests. The neocons are as bad as the woke crowd. In fact, I believe the CIA is using the wokies and promoting them and using war as a way to get them interested in going to that war. Thank God it’s not working. Thank God Russia is more than Own. We have thwarted our once Christian Ethics. We have become what we’ve so vehemently hated.
The issue our black brothers is their lack of a proper education. They see the writing on the wall as to their dis-inclusion in the New World Order crap, which by the way is headed by the son of a devoted Third Reicher. That’s who wants a new world order…..sound familiar? American Blacks need to smarten up and join the One and only Human Race. Many are too, and after what they’ve witnessed in the past 3 years of the plandemic. We were had.
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Holding Obama in high regard – goodbye!
The "redemption" that was rained upon the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki already put an end to said narrative. Why no mention?
Your supposition that the US was the world's redeemer just after WWII is ridiculous.
It was Stalin's Russia that put 80% of the Nazis 6 feet into the ground. The US intently sat out of the war for 2 years watching most of Europe obliterate itself all while engaged in commerce with BOTH SIDES.
This is a a recurring theme with Hedges. He really is loathe to give the proper due to Russian Communists.
Stalin was a dictator…communism is bad… blah blah.
Number one to have based on every country on earth to manipulate
CHINA'SMIRACLE AND THE GODS
How to explain the Chinese miracle and its dazzling progress?
The gods had chosen the USA to advance humanity, but faced with the abuse of power and aggression committed by the government and its military-industrial-financial complex against peoples who aspired only to live in peace with dignity, the gods have abandoned the USA to turn to China. Since then, with the help of the gods, China is changing the world and realizing the plan that will allow humanity to live in peace with dignity and prosperity. As for the Anglo-Saxons, the gods condemned them to submission.
Its a false churrch because their "holy scripture" was written by thomas payne and not jefferson. Jefferson only edited it and put his name on it because thomas payne was a brittish immigrant. It was marketing
I don't really see that as the main driver behind what the US elite do to the rest of the world. Remember how slavers justified slavery, in part at least, on how they were saving or helping a lesser race. So they use that sort of rhetoric to justify their misdeeds. But it isn't the driving force.
Proverbs 29:2 when righteous rule the people rejoice and when wicked rule the people 🌠mourn!! You wanted to rule yourself you get fat greedy politicians and big corporations God just stay in silence until evil comes to its fullness , then righteous will come.. transformers in school teaching your children pedos and human trafficking in your government, wars fought by your young men and the filthy rich evading draft while the expendable are slaughtered by other expendable young men course by the industrial military government. They get wealthy while we get bread 🥖 crumbs.. Esau blessings is the sword ðŸ—¡ï¸ and will live by it and live in all the best places in this planet 🌎..
These guys brains are ossifying. Best played at 1.5 speed or not at all😂
One of humans greatest evolved talents: their incredible capacity for denial.
What a terrible image. The whole world like Uncle Sam…..😮