The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World

If pressed to describe what I think the next several years will look like as concisely as possible, I’d simply provide the following quote, often misattributed to Lenin:

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

There will be many such weeks from now until 2025, with the end result an emergence of a multi-polar world that will permanently unseat the unipolar U.S. imperial paradigm.

Since World War 2, the U.S. has successfully sustained a position of global dominance unlike anything the world’s ever seen. Virtually each and every corner of the planet has been subject to inescapable and overwhelming American influence, both culturally and economically. This root of this power didn’t just emerge from GDP strength and the USD, but from Hollywood, popular music and tv shows. The impact of the U.S. empire on the planet over the past 70 years has been extraordinary but, like all things, it too shall pass. I believe this end will be realized by around 2025.

When I say this sort of stuff people think I’m calling for the end of the world. I suppose that’s what it may feel like to many, because a paradigm change of this magnitude will indeed have monumental global implications. Yet the world will go on, it’ll just be very different place. That said, Americans should not see this as an apocalyptic thing. It’s not healthy or sustainable for one nation to dominate the planet in such a manner. Many of us like to think that a benevolent global empire led by philosopher kings is just fine, but the problem is this is utter fantasy. What happens in real life, to quote Lord Acton, is  that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

This is precisely what’s happened in the U.S. The country’s been looted and pillaged with rapacious fervor in recent decades while a unaccountable class of people I refer to as top-tier predators operate at will with total impunity. The man on the street’s thrown in jail for the smallest offense, while financiers who destroyed the global economy with fraud retire comfortably to their mansions. The U.S. empire no longer benefits the average American, but instead systematically funnels all the spoils to a smaller and smaller segment of the population. Most of the world already sees it, and the average U.S. citizen is starting to see it as well. This is not good for the establishment.

This is also why the U.S. status quo constantly lies to the public with its nonsense narrative that U.S. military action overseas is based on humanitarian concerns and a desire to spread democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, all significant U.S. military action overseas is driven by money and power. Humanitarian concerns play zero role. Not even a small role, zero.

Caitlin Johnstone recently summarized what’s going with geopolitics perfectly with the following paragraph:

The mass media narrative factory tries to make it about chemical weapons, about election meddling, about poisoned ex-spies, about humanitarian issues, but it has only ever been about expanding the power and influence of the oligarchs and allied intelligence/defense agencies which run the western empire. All the hostilities that we are seeing are nothing other than an extremely powerful conglomeration of forces poking and prodding noncompliant governments to coerce them into compliance before global power restructures itself into a multipolar world.

The biggest problem for the U.S. establishment right now is people are no longer buying the narrative. They certainly aren’t buying it overseas, and even here in America, U.S. citizens are finally starting to see the “humanitarian bombings” for the shams they are. It’d be one thing if your average American was benefiting from U.S. empire, but they aren’t. Rather, the spoils are all going to a small handful of people from the top tier predator class, while life for tens of millions is characterized by dilapidated infrastructure, a completely broken healthcare system, continued unaccountable Wall Street looting, a decimation of of civil liberties, and an overall precarious economic existence that seems modeled off of the Hunger Games.

The only people who don’t see how dysfunctional the U.S. empire is are the people running it. The U.S. establishment, which consists of a diverse assortment of elites from Wall Street, American intelligence agencies, mass media, Congress, the Federal Reserve, the military-industrial complex, etc., disagree on many things, but one thing they agree on completely is the U.S. empire — that it should not only be preserved, but expanded. The major problem for them is this isn’t 1995 anymore, they just haven’t got the memo yet.

The U.S. establishment is either too busy making boatloads of money or playing keyboard warrior with other people’s lives to acknowledge what’s happening both here and abroad. A disconnected, greedy and unaccountable elite class filled with hubris and an insatiable hunger for power is a core ingredient in any imperial collapse, and this exists in America in droves at the moment. A reckoning is coming.

Today’s piece focused on how the U.S. empire is no longer working for the average American citizen. Part 2 will focus on why it’s not working for the rest of the world either. 

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Michael Krieger

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15 thoughts on “The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World”

  1. There is certainly no shortage of fraudsters in this world. Even when attemting to appear decent, intelligent, or caring they have to resort to treachery because those concepts are so foreign to them. Birds of a feather. Their time will come, just as Hillary’s did.

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  2. The Soviet empire fell because the cost of the arms race depleted the rest of the society to such a degree that a collapse was inevitable. I believe the US are in a similar state now. The current wars are carried out by technology at distance, or by proxy warriors, and not by actual americans on ground. How long can the citizens carry that burden? At the same time the US is losing the moral support within the public among their allies, as I know first hand, by being from a european allied country. Although our domestic politic leadership and mainstream press are supporting the US, especially when they launch some rockets, opposition and disbelief is large and growing among normal people. The US has lost its posiotion as our leading star, not just among the leftist, but all over the spectrum. The insanity and lies are becoming so evident that it is impossible to deny it.

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  3. I couldnt have said it better myself Mike – if i got pulled over for a seatbelt violation and failed to show up for the court appearance I would recieve more punishment than a bankster who cooked the books, bankrupted a corporation, and may have been instrumental in a national fiscal collapse.American justice 2018……

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  4. Our ROGUE govt has morphed into TYRRANY. We will eventually collapse. Economic growth and power are moving EAST. The criminal elites of the West are grasping at anything to keep their power from collapsing. They don’t care how insane or stupid it is. They are like spoiled children who have gotten away with anything and everything, so have no long range wisdom, no remorse.

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  5. As long as the dollar is the World’s reserve currency, and foreign central banks continue to buy U.S. securities, the U.S. will continue its massive defense budgets, and engage in endless devastating wars abroad. U.S. citizens are only starting to take notice of this, but by and large, they continue to be gullible and distracted – as long as the war is “over there”, in Afghanistan or Syria, they pay little attention. Not that I want it, but a “black swan” event needs to happen, to make Americans rise up and change things for the better. Don’t let the propaganda slogan, “Support the Troops” deceive you. It really means give your tax dollars to American defense contractors.

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  6. Great points ! Completely agree on all . Question is what are we to do ( avarage guy ) stop voting ? Paying taxes? … Until scociety acts this is all gossip !

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    • Stop voting. Vote local issues if needed. But stop voting for anyone and everyone that is, or wants to be, in DC.

  7. I agree and disagree with your article Mr. Kreiger.

    Agree: There will be a Multi-Polar (MP) world in the future.
    Disagree: The MP world will not happen peacefully.

    Agree: Power corrupts in a Unipolar (UP) world.
    Disagree: Power does not corrupt in a MP world.

    Agree: The 1% elites in the UP world control the masses.
    Disagree: The 1% elites in the MP world will not control the masses.

    Agree: The elites on the UP world are corrupted by money and power
    Disagree: The kleptocrats of the MP world will not be corrupted by money and power.

    Agree: The leaders of the UP world are arrogant, greedy and selfish
    Disagree: The leader(s) of the future MP world will not be arrogant, greedy, and selfish.

    Conclusion: Meet the new Boss worst than the old Boss. The iron fist of the MP world will never establish global utopia. So, sad that so many are drinking the kool aid 🙁

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    • I’ll address these point by point.

      1) I don’t think peacefully, I think less violently than many fear.

      2) I think power always corrupts. My vision for the future world is one where all relationships are voluntary, including which sort of governance you live under. I believe in applying the principles of Bitcoin to all human affairs. Voluntary, decentralized, open source.

      3) Crazy control-freak humans will always look to control others. I despise any sort of system that allows this via violence and coercion, which is how essentially all nation-states operate today. I want major paradigm level change in how humans conduct their affairs, partly modeled on the key principles of Bitcoin.

      4) Pretty much everyone is corrupted by money and power, we need to build new systems where it’s harder for people to control others using money, power, or anything else.

      5) Sociopathic personalities are always attracted to and thus attain positions of power. Our key goal much be to reduce overall opportunities for the acquisition of centralized power.

      Interestingly enough, I agree with all your disagreements. You don’t actually disagree, you misunderstood my post. I hope you understand now.

    • Ever read Gustave Le Bon’s The Psychology of Crowds?

      There’ll be no end to controlling for there’ll be no end for the need to be controlled, in a social species.

      Of course we are always in probability territory, and talking of bets here.

  8. “A picture is worth a 1000 words”.
    So true… So, yes, the truth about US foreign policy is there, in the open, for everyone to see.
    I wonder what will happen next…

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  9. You are right, the problem is that to fix that situation the most easy way for the empire is the war and with the class of arms that are now disponible, if they are used, is the end of the world.

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