The beginning of the end of America as the sole economic superpower in the world was 9-11, George W. Bush, the Iraq War, and the rise of China, all around 2001-2002.
I didn’t say this was the end of America’s economic power; I said it was the official beginning of the end.
The beginning of the end of America’s culture was around 2007, as I’ve discussed many times, when Hollywood and other American cultural centers lost the ability to regularly crank out high-quality movies, TV shows, comic books, novels, and video games. It’s also when left-wing wokeism started creeping in and everything started to become remakes and sequels of prior IPs.
But during all this time, America as an empire still prevailed. Its position as the sole superpower and most powerful empire in human history remained unrivaled and unchallenged.
Until now.
Now we have a new marker, this year, in 2026. Future historians will state that 2026 was the beginning of the end of America as an empire.
During this stupid Iranian conflict, numerous things have occurred that have never occurred before, since the 1940s when America achieved its true superpower status.
Here they are listed in no particular order.
1. During the conflict, the President of the United States, in this case, the man-child Trump, would state a deadline with huge consequences if the deadline was reached without some concession.
The deadline would come and go, and Iran would just give Trump the finger and do nothing.
Then the president would either extend the deadline or come up with a new deadline.
This happened over and over and over and over again. About six or seven times, I believe, in just a few weeks.
This is new. This has never happened before.
There have indeed been a few times where American presidents have set a deadline and then had to eat crow and extend the deadline. Obama was a big pussy and this happened to him once or twice.
But we have never seen some random little country give America the finger with no fear whatsoever, and then have the president of America scramble like a maniac six or seven times in a row, constantly extending deadlines to the point where news all over the world constantly says “another day, another deadline.”
The enemies of America just don’t fear America like they used to, even when they know a hair-trigger, irrational Alpha Male 1.0 like Trump is in charge.
Trump, and America by extension, has been made to look like fools with these constantly rotating deadlines.
2. America’s military hardware has had several obvious and public incidents where it didn’t function as advertised.
The aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, is the strongest, greatest, highest-tech, and most powerful aircraft carrier ever designed by humankind. It was pumped up as some badass thing that could win entire wars on its own.
However, during the conflict, a little fire occurred in the kitchen. They had to turn the entire goddamn thing around and send it back to Europe for several weeks to get it repaired before they could send it back into battle, all because of some little fire in the kitchen.
Now, yes, if you’re a mechanic or engineer, you’re probably going to state that this had to happen because of blah blah blah. None of that is relevant.
What’s relevant is how it looks to the world. It makes America look completely and utterly pathetic.
An overblown paper tiger that’s scary just for show, with a bunch of overly technological, outdated shit built to fight World War II or the Cold War that was over decades ago.
Again, this is new. This has never happened before.
3. Almost 100% of America’s allies refused to help, even when America begged them.
All of NATO didn’t do shit. Australia, South Korea, Japan, and many other Asian allies offered no help to America whatsoever, even when Trump went begging for it.
So that’s bad on top of bad:
The president had to beg other countries for help, which is a terrible look.
99% of the countries gave him the finger and refused to help him.
The only country helping America in this conflict is the country that runs the American government, which is Israel. Other than that, America is completely on its own. The rest of the world has told it to fuck off.
I have never seen this happen. During the first and second Gulf Wars, there were about 110 countries that were allied with America before they went in.
This does not bode well for America’s position as the world’s superpower and largest empire.
4. This is the biggest one of them all. America’s (really Israel’s) conflict completely fucked up the entire planet Earth, and America can’t fix it.
The Straight of Hormuz is one of the top three most important choke points in the entire planet, along with the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal. America’s dumbass war has completely fucked that up for the entire world.
More importantly, America can’t fix it no matter what it tries. It tried negotiations, it tried massive bombings, it tried alliances. Nothing has worked. To this very day, the Straight of Hormuz is still closed, threatening the resources of almost 50% of the entire world.
America, once powerful and feared, can’t fix a simple problem of one little shithead country giving it the finger and opening up that straight.
So far, Iran has won.
Not only does it show America’s incompetence in getting shit done, but it’s also, once again, a very bad look for America as the world looks on.
So we have officially entered into the next phase of American collapse, the beginning of the end of the American empire, which I am confident future historians will state was in 2026 (if not sooner).
I’m not sure how many warning signals you need to leave the Collapsing USA if you still live there.


“Never happened before”. Maybe this was before your time, but in 1979 a group of radical Muslims stormed the United States embassy and took a number of hostages. The US under jimmy carter watched helplessly as the hostages were held for 444 days. 444 days!!! For well over a year these unprofessional Muslim students held off the “mighty” US military. Trump’s war has been going for a month and a half.
This is hardly unprecedented
The fact is that Iran is very difficult to deal with for any country. We could bomb them to smithereens if we wanted to, but Trump is showing restraint.
Is it a coincidence that you released this post on tax day? ;)
The sad truth is a good chunk of MAGA will still find a way to mental hamster that a). America's actions in this war (such as the tomahawk missile attack on a school) are justified and b). America did in fact come out the victorious party in this conflict. While also turning a blind eye to the Israeli influence in the US government, Netanyahu spelled it out that the White House answers to him. An embarrassment.