Over the centuries many leaders have mistaken sheer good luck for genus. As they lust for empire. Their national borders are not big enough to contain their greatness. We are so successfully at everything we say, do, and think. Let's tell the rest of the world how to be successful, just like us.
Empires don't work that way. When you are the biggest kid on the block, what's to stop you throwing your weight around. Besides, bossing people around is fun. You invade other countries and take what you want, and force them pay tribute for your protection. From real or unreal enemies, but mostly from you.
The money flows in, the government and the army get praised for civilizing the world. You get fooled into thinking that these people need you. But war is organized theft, and all thieves pay for their actions in this world, or the next. All that death and destruction, to make them just like us.
The people in the homeland get lazy, thinking they are smarter than the rest of the world. Production falls and they think, the good time will last forever.
I now turn to the latest empire, the USA. They don't like the name "empire" but prefer the word "superpower", Maybe that's why they have not made much of a success, in the empire business. They invade countries with their gift of democracy, Then their government makes the American tax payer pay for the occupation. Because they want the people they conquered to love them, Love them for saving them from themselves.
When you are on top of the world there is only one way to go, down. All empires fade and passed from memory. This is the way of empires, they rise and fall leaving the common people of the homeland destitute or worse. And when a empire declines, a new one replaces the old empire. Just like when the old school bully retires to the chicken factory, a new school bully replaces him.
Where does this leave the hard working folk that are the foundation of the nation now and forever. They must tighten their belts, grin and bear the pain.
Buy gold and silver to protect your wealth. Paper money is just that. Paper. If you read Treasure Island, you will note that when they dug up the treasure, They describe diamond rings, gold coins etc.. But, no paper money. If you bury paper in the ground it rots. Gold stands the test of time.
It's our nature to make mistakes, but we all want to do our best.
Maybe I should learn to speak French, after all. They say you can learn it in eight weeks.
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