US History

Declining civilizations will always face superior firepower from ascending civilizations because sovereignty is only temporarily uncontested.

When a civilization accepts the propaganda of its enemy as truth, it has reached the far side of appeasement and capitulation is nigh.

Debasing the currency always destabilizes the governing authority.

With the loss of fiscal solvency comes a loss of sovereignty.

To hold territory, a state must be populated by those loyal to the central authority. When immigration overwhelms assimilation, the fall is predicted.

When a free people, through taxation, is deprived of its ability to acquire wealth and property, collapse is presaged.

If a people cannot avoid continuous internal warfare, they will have a new order imposed from without.

Appeasement of a ruthless outside power always invites aggression. Treaties made with ruthless despots are always fruitless and dangerous.

No nation has ever survived once its citizenry ceased to believe its culture worth saving. (Hanson’s Law)

“War is not merely a material struggle, but more often a referendum on the spirit.” The brilliant military historian, Victor Davis Hanson, goes on, “ No nation has ever survived once its citizenry ceased to believe...