The end of the American century

From Rome to Washington, history is but the graveyard of empires condemned by their own excess; today, the Pax Americana falters under the lucid gaze of a global South ready to rewrite the terms of a new world.

The Middle Kingdom… Western

We must call things by their proper names. Pax Americana was not peace. It was an order. An imposed order, codified, sanctified by the victory of 1918, then consolidated on the smoldering ruins of 1945. One hundred and eight years of hegemony. A century in which Washington believed itself to be the center of gravity of the world. This center has now definitively shifted, capsized in the tumultuous waters of the Straits of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb, forcing Washington to accept an agreement of capitulation towards Tehran.

The collapse did not stem solely from military defeat (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine, Iran, etc.). It stemmed from the silent accumulation of contradictions. The American empire carried within itself its own termites, or rather, the seeds of its own destruction: jurisdictional arrogance, the logic of economic predation, and the reflex of proxy wars. These three pillars, once sources of power, became accelerators of decay.

Extraterritoriality, or the law as a weapon of war

American law does not stop at American borders. This is the great anomaly of the system. Since the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, reinforced by post-9/11 legislation, Washington has methodically transformed its legal system into an instrument of global domination. The extraterritoriality of American law – this self-proclaimed right to sanction, freeze assets, prosecute,........

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