From The Saker:

I call this the “American curse”: Americans are very good at killing people, but they are not good at winning wars…

As for the US “diplomacy” it simply doesn’t exist. You don’t need diplomats to deliver demands, bribes, ultimatums and threats…

How did a country which produced the UH-1 Huey or the F-16 suddenly start producing Apaches and F-35s?! The explanation is painfully simple: corruption…

In less than half a century US generals went from combat men, to managers, to politicians…

Alas (for Trump), there is no way to crush Daesh without working with those who already have boots on the ground: the Iranians, the Russians and the Syrians…

I think that we can agree that the authority of the USA is pretty close to zero.

From the comments:

“Whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”

The leakers are smart enough to know the only way to get those nukes pointed elsewhere is to make the NSA/CIA spying establishment impotent…

When patriots are no longer willing to be cannon fodder or simply follow psychopathic orders, the empire fails…

Israel and America are the same thing and both getting isolated in the same way and for the same reason…

All they need is a fatwa and guns and Europe will be submerged in blood and body parts from Scandinavia to Gibraltar…

The war the US started in Syria will be the pill too many on which they overdose…

American system might fail: but Europe as a geographical location will go under as a whole…

Most of India’s 5th column English language media are aghast (like other ignorant anti-Modi “geniuses” abroad) and are in self-denial (much like the western MSM’s reaction to Trump’s election). Aside from the majority of the poor and so-called lower castes voting for the BJP, over 90% of Shia Muslims voted for the BJP (the majority of Shia Indian Muslims live in Uttar Pradesh) due to its anti-Salafist stance and its firm commitment to economic tie ups with Iran.

Again the clueless outsiders thought that demonetization would hurt the BJP and Modi: They were clearly wrong! It only helped him because it gutted the money used by western proxies to cook the elections they way they wanted…

The monster of Wahabism that the Anglo/Zio/KSA unholy trinity have unleashed has the potential to destroy Europe and the US will obviously be in no position to help and indeed will look very silly when they keep on trying to convince everyone that the real threat Europe faces is Russia, Iran and Syria (who have killed zero Europeans.)..

The post-911 wars were essentially colonial wars, in my book they didn’t fail at all since heroin production in Afghanistan is at an all time high..

Trump is the embodiment of the doomed “human-based” component of the USA. His campaign platform was entirely geared towards the anxieties generated by the present transition to another stage of the technological civilisation : immigrants, decaying infrastructure, impoverishment, mass-media (very “human-based”), political engineering (SJW, feminists, Soros guys etc.) and cliques (“swamp”) at the top etc…

From a moral, ethical, spiritual, or humanitarian perspective, technical progress has reached the devil’s boundary…

America for all its problems, for all its woes and warts, is the unsurpassed leader of this transformation, of taking humans towards a path of becoming non-humans…

[T]he only way out for humanity, if it is to avoid becoming permanently trapped in a brave new world, is to abandon its lust for “progress” and “more”…

The Russian military would make mincemeat of any US forces that dared pick a fight… which is why the US has always ensured there were disposa-terrorists between them and any real soldiers. Syria is not Grenada, and the US chickenhawks seem to be the only ones not getting that fact…

[W]hen expansion stops, a reflux occurs and the physically dense regions of populations, cities, become reaction bombs – if one will permit the analogies to chemistry – which of course it is. Human economic chemistry. De-industrialization accelerates the process…

North Korea can bombard Seoul, and the major U.S. military base on the border with aprox. 16,000+ heavy artillery rounds a minute…

An Iranian General has stated that Iran could muster 5+ million armed soldiers if need be against any aggression. These forces would overwhelm the region…

The Israeli military is perhaps the most over-rated force in the world, as we saw them get routed in 2006 by Hezbollah…

The same ‘suicidal’ tendencies of the U.S. empire the Saker mentioned, can also be used to apply to Israel. They are one in the same. Dumb and dumber.