As U.S. hegemony contracts, capital retreats behind walls of finance, sanctions, militarism and repression. Each move protects ruling-class power in the short term while accelerating systemic decline. Empire becomes trapped defending the very order consuming it. #ImperialDecline
September 30, 2026 at 5:41 AM
As U.S. hegemony contracts, capital retreats behind walls of finance, sanctions, militarism and repression. Each move protects ruling-class power in the short term while accelerating systemic decline. Empire becomes trapped defending the very order consuming it. #ImperialDecline
“The emperor has no clothes.”
We’ve reached the point where the weakness of the U.S. empire has been completely exposed. #USEmpire #ImperialDecline
We’ve reached the point where the weakness of the U.S. empire has been completely exposed. #USEmpire #ImperialDecline
August 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
“The emperor has no clothes.”
We’ve reached the point where the weakness of the U.S. empire has been completely exposed. #USEmpire #ImperialDecline
We’ve reached the point where the weakness of the U.S. empire has been completely exposed. #USEmpire #ImperialDecline
Americans and Westerners are trapped inside outdated imperial myths, mistaking propaganda for reality and decline for “normal life.” False consciousness isn’t an accident. It’s the operating system of late capitalism. #FalseConsciousness #ImperialDecline
January 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Americans and Westerners are trapped inside outdated imperial myths, mistaking propaganda for reality and decline for “normal life.” False consciousness isn’t an accident. It’s the operating system of late capitalism. #FalseConsciousness #ImperialDecline
The comprador class sees the writing on the wall: US imperial decline is no longer theoretical, it’s material. So they loot with urgency—strip-mining what remains before collapse. This is late-stage extraction in its purest form. #ImperialDecline #CapitalFlight
March 19, 2026 at 4:55 PM
The comprador class sees the writing on the wall: US imperial decline is no longer theoretical, it’s material. So they loot with urgency—strip-mining what remains before collapse. This is late-stage extraction in its purest form. #ImperialDecline #CapitalFlight
U.S. empire is not simply “losing to China.” Capital globalized production, hollowed out its own industrial base and helped create the forces now undermining its supremacy. The contradiction is accelerating: American capital accumulated itself into imperial decline. #ImperialDecline
August 31, 2026 at 2:04 PM
U.S. empire is not simply “losing to China.” Capital globalized production, hollowed out its own industrial base and helped create the forces now undermining its supremacy. The contradiction is accelerating: American capital accumulated itself into imperial decline. #ImperialDecline
Iran destroyed U.S. naval bases across the Persian Gulf and effectively halted the American naval presence there. The empire attacked expecting submission. Instead, Iran denied it the battlespace and shattered decades of assumed U.S. military dominance. #ImperialDecline
August 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Iran destroyed U.S. naval bases across the Persian Gulf and effectively halted the American naval presence there. The empire attacked expecting submission. Instead, Iran denied it the battlespace and shattered decades of assumed U.S. military dominance. #ImperialDecline
The empire that talks about “destroying” nations is the one quietly losing its grip across the Middle East. Iran isn’t collapsing—it’s resisting, adapting, and exposing the limits of U.S. power. The louder the threats, the clearer the decline. #ImperialDecline #MultipolarWorld
April 3, 2026 at 7:58 PM
The empire that talks about “destroying” nations is the one quietly losing its grip across the Middle East. Iran isn’t collapsing—it’s resisting, adapting, and exposing the limits of U.S. power. The louder the threats, the clearer the decline. #ImperialDecline #MultipolarWorld
It’s not that the U.S. system is “unraveling”—it’s that capitalism’s contradictions are surfacing while a rising global order quietly replaces it. Chaos isn’t failure, it’s transition. #ImperialDecline #GlobalShift
January 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM
It’s not that the U.S. system is “unraveling”—it’s that capitalism’s contradictions are surfacing while a rising global order quietly replaces it. Chaos isn’t failure, it’s transition. #ImperialDecline #GlobalShift
The US attack on Venezuela—using CIA + JSOC / Delta-style forces to kidnap its president and first lady—isn’t strength. It’s a decapitation fantasy from a declining empire: covert ops, legal fog, oil logic. When hegemony fades, force replaces consent. #ImperialDecline #Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 6:37 AM
The US attack on Venezuela—using CIA + JSOC / Delta-style forces to kidnap its president and first lady—isn’t strength. It’s a decapitation fantasy from a declining empire: covert ops, legal fog, oil logic. When hegemony fades, force replaces consent. #ImperialDecline #Venezuela
The Americans thought they could win Afghanistan with airstrikes, warlords, and aid money. Jon Lee Anderson shows they never understood the war, and were outlasted by those who did. #Afghanistan #WarOnTerror #ImperialDecline #BookSky #Books
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Jon Lee Anderson’s To Lose a War traces America’s twenty-year occupation of Afghanistan through textured reportage, exposing how hubris, war crimes, and imperial misrecognition led to the Taliban’s re...
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August 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Americans thought they could win Afghanistan with airstrikes, warlords, and aid money. Jon Lee Anderson shows they never understood the war, and were outlasted by those who did. #Afghanistan #WarOnTerror #ImperialDecline #BookSky #Books
Today it is a case of the grasshopper pitted against the elephant. But tomorrow the elephant will have its guts ripped out. -- Le Loi
#underdogrises #antiimperialism #littledefeatsbig #uspolitics #freeiran #freepalestine #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
#underdogrises #antiimperialism #littledefeatsbig #uspolitics #freeiran #freepalestine #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
September 27, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Today it is a case of the grasshopper pitted against the elephant. But tomorrow the elephant will have its guts ripped out. -- Le Loi
#underdogrises #antiimperialism #littledefeatsbig #uspolitics #freeiran #freepalestine #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
#underdogrises #antiimperialism #littledefeatsbig #uspolitics #freeiran #freepalestine #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
The U.S. empire’s global hegemony is weakening, and the mechanisms of control are slipping through its fingers. As its influence declines, its responses become increasingly extreme—revealing the desperation of a system struggling to preserve a fading unipolar order. #MultipolarWorld #ImperialDecline
July 8, 2026 at 2:22 PM
The U.S. empire’s global hegemony is weakening, and the mechanisms of control are slipping through its fingers. As its influence declines, its responses become increasingly extreme—revealing the desperation of a system struggling to preserve a fading unipolar order. #MultipolarWorld #ImperialDecline
The post-WWII moment is over for U.S. empire. Bretton Woods is a zombie. The dollar still walks, but it limps. What we’re watching now is imperial overreach colliding with material limits — fiscal, military, political, and psychological. #MultipolarWorld #ImperialDecline
December 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The post-WWII moment is over for U.S. empire. Bretton Woods is a zombie. The dollar still walks, but it limps. What we’re watching now is imperial overreach colliding with material limits — fiscal, military, political, and psychological. #MultipolarWorld #ImperialDecline
A war with Iran marks the terminal crisis of the US empire, no matter how it ends. #ImperialDecline #MultipolarWorld
March 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
A war with Iran marks the terminal crisis of the US empire, no matter how it ends. #ImperialDecline #MultipolarWorld
1979 was more than a Chinese pivot—it was the start of World War Three. Two historical stages are colliding: declining U.S. hegemony vs. an emergent multipolar world. The outcome is inevitable, the timing is not. #GlobalClassStruggle #ImperialDecline
March 23, 2026 at 11:31 PM
1979 was more than a Chinese pivot—it was the start of World War Three. Two historical stages are colliding: declining U.S. hegemony vs. an emergent multipolar world. The outcome is inevitable, the timing is not. #GlobalClassStruggle #ImperialDecline
The comprador class sees the writing on the wall: US imperial decline is no longer theoretical, it’s material. So they loot with urgency—strip-mining what remains before collapse. This is late-stage extraction in its purest form. #ImperialDecline #CapitalFlight
March 20, 2026 at 6:45 PM
The comprador class sees the writing on the wall: US imperial decline is no longer theoretical, it’s material. So they loot with urgency—strip-mining what remains before collapse. This is late-stage extraction in its purest form. #ImperialDecline #CapitalFlight
September 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
September 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
One year since the FBI's top cop was held by a size-medium women's raid jacket lacking Velcro patches. The agency that murdered Fred Hampton has a size chart. The crime it commits doesn't fit any frame.
#kashpaypal #susanklopfertruth #velcropatchkids #fbi #imperialdecline
#kashpaypal #susanklopfertruth #velcropatchkids #fbi #imperialdecline
September 12, 2026 at 3:04 PM
One year since the FBI's top cop was held by a size-medium women's raid jacket lacking Velcro patches. The agency that murdered Fred Hampton has a size chart. The crime it commits doesn't fit any frame.
#kashpaypal #susanklopfertruth #velcropatchkids #fbi #imperialdecline
#kashpaypal #susanklopfertruth #velcropatchkids #fbi #imperialdecline
August 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The digital texture hardens, grainy with biometric scans demanding ID or selfie matches before lawful content. On #texturetuesday consider #digitalid laws during our period of #imperialdecline. #surveillancecapitalism is surrendering anonymity to read a book or stream a show. 28 states now […]
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August 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
The digital texture hardens, grainy with biometric scans demanding ID or selfie matches before lawful content. On #texturetuesday consider #digitalid laws during our period of #imperialdecline. #surveillancecapitalism is surrendering anonymity to read a book or stream a show. 28 states now […]
ICE hunts migrants, Texas tracks abortions, corporations blacklist dissent. Build the #panopticon, and they will come -- for you next. #gettheflockout
#flock #alpr #surveillancecapitalism #surveilanceresistance #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
#flock #alpr #surveillancecapitalism #surveilanceresistance #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
July 27, 2026 at 12:49 PM
ICE hunts migrants, Texas tracks abortions, corporations blacklist dissent. Build the #panopticon, and they will come -- for you next. #gettheflockout
#flock #alpr #surveillancecapitalism #surveilanceresistance #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
#flock #alpr #surveillancecapitalism #surveilanceresistance #imperialdecline #susanklopfertruth
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/116971391762343268
#surveillancecapitalism #imperialdecline #grapheneos
#surveillancecapitalism #imperialdecline #grapheneos
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July 24, 2026 at 4:44 AM
You could grab a random group of people off a DC street tonight and they’d probably govern more coherently than the current regime. There’s no objective and no strategy—just imperial drift. The predictable result is another long war and a growing pile of dead Americans. #ImperialDecline
March 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
You could grab a random group of people off a DC street tonight and they’d probably govern more coherently than the current regime. There’s no objective and no strategy—just imperial drift. The predictable result is another long war and a growing pile of dead Americans. #ImperialDecline