We’ve been playing empire games in para-time and it was inevitable that sooner or later we’d run into someone who was better at it than we are. Unfortunately the United States is structurally an imperial project, it’s in our political DNA. We’re always looking for a frontier to expand into, we can’t back down, anyone who admits we’re overmatched gets sidelined and booted out of office by an upstart who insists that we can never be defeated, only betrayed. So we can’t work around obstacles, only power on through the fire.
