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The author makes a bold and unshakable declaration: America is an imperial empire and that's a fact. Also America could lose itself as a Republic. The author is CEO of Stratfor, which does intelligence analysis for the CIA and the multinationals. So the opinions in this book count for something. He gives the big picture that faces America abroad. It is simple power and balance of power. He states that this country is always striving to set other countries at each other so they cannot combine against the United States. Not pretty, but the alternative is like believing pink horsies with wings bring babies. I learned from this book why politicians always lie to us and why they will continue to do so. The reason is: We cannot handle the truth (wasn't that in a movie or something?). Politicians always have to dose the public with something it can accept. I quickly noticed what I read in this book was being mentioned in the news of the day. How we are concerned about Egypt falling could be dangerous because the Israel/Egypt combination is important to us. The book predicts that Germany and Russia will try to combine and that we will interfere with that. It predicts the rise of Japan, the fall of China and ultimately the fall of Russia (Russia cannot make it in the end because the rivers run the wrong way). There are other areas of the world the book mentioned and that make this book a must read for anyone getting baptized into real world politik. As I say, this book helps me to follow along with the news. The author does not get into a detailed discussion about how we may lose our Republic...So I knocked a star off the rating, because I am so unfair.

2023-01-24 14:04