Yes, it is a steep, crash-and-burn decline. But I have not forgotten Jeremiah 18:7,8 :   "The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it." 

Arnaud Bertrand provides a precis of the Washington Post story on the explosive Rand Think Tank report:

"This is explosive stuff. It says, "The United States might be stumbling toward a decline from which few great powers have ever recovered."

"The study describes this decline as “accelerating” and doesn't seem optimistic about recovery: “Recovery from significant long-term national decline is rare and difficult to detect in the historical record. [...] When great powers have slid from a position of preeminence or leadership because of domestic factors, they seldom reversed this trend.”

"What causes the decline? Pretty much everything you'd expect: “military overstretch,” “self-interested and warring elites,” “Addiction to luxury and decadence,” “failure to keep pace with … technological demands,” “ossified” bureaucracy, “loss of civic virtue,” “unsustainable environmental practices”, etc.

Is the sun slowly setting on U.S. power? That depends on us, @IgnatiusPost writes. https://wapo.st/49WjZGV

12:07 PM · Apr 27, 2024