Decline, but still irreplaceable

Decline, but still irreplaceable

The situation in the USA is worrying. It is in economic decline but still has many irreplaceable points for the whole world. With the Chinese and Indians dominating the industry, from sewing needles, bicycles, cell phones and even automobiles, a space agency with its own space station, and space probes landing on the moon, people might think that humanity no longer needs the USA.

But only three countries have produced 90% of all contemporary music in the world since 1950: Brazil, the USA, the United Kingdom. Name me an African, Danish or Swedish, Russian, Portuguese, French, Italian song. All of it is rubbish except for ABBA, Aha, one or the other. The bulk of the world's music production is made up of these three; in cinema and TV programming.

Note that the USA is still the best and most productive; it has social networks that suffer from weak competition from KWAI and Chinese TIKTOK, TELEGRAM and VK. The world is dominated by Americans in general.

Therefore, the US's exit from the top will create a vacuum.

But the decline of all empires is inevitable. If Trump were smart, he would be preparing generations of US citizens to be the second or third most important country in the world.

Trying to keep the US in first place will be a futile attempt and the inevitable and unavoidable ruin of this great decadent country that consumes: too much oil, too much water, too much electricity, just like China, which copied the North American model of consumption, will soon also have to make imperialism its method of survival and History repeats itself as a farce.

No country should copy these insane and unsustainable consumption patterns: for itself and for the earth.

What is terrorism?

In the last century, the US invaded Guatemala, Nicaragua, Jamaica just because of bananas!

It seems incredible, but in order to have bananas, the logical thing would be for them to import bananas.

But Americans don't like trade: they simply overthrew governments so that American companies could take over the banana trade, and for that they accused them of terrorism, lack of democracy, human rights violations, communists, the usual agenda: when they want to accuse or invade another country, they start the usual condemnations, all just because of bananas (or oil, or tungsten, or rare earths, or lithium, or niobium, aluminum, copper, cobalt).

If you look at the documents from the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the famous Itamaraty, you will see forty years of disputes and lawsuits in international organizations with the WTO (World Trade Organization) over disputes by American importers complaining; now about prices, pests on plantations, scientific studies against the consumption of cane sugar, coffee, everything to destroy and bring down prices, and finally even oranges formed the longest dispute between the two countries because there were orange plantations in Florida, which suffered from frost and hurricanes, so the orange trees in Brazil suffered for many decades with the protectionist North Americans.

Roberto da Silva Rocha, professor universitário e cientista político