Imo people often fail to distinguish between the "nation" and the "empire". There is a BIG difference between the domestic nation, and international scope "empire". The empire is doing just fine, the nation-state system is not, and both are going global in scope in success and required "failure". Its a transition imo, not an "end" but of a paradigm of world power based on a single nation or partial bloc of nations. Its a transition to a wholeness, a culmination of a process.
The US and Anglo empire is expanding financially (and militarily) and debt is its greatest asset for that expansion into many nations, the financial expansion will even be more powerful than Global NATO co-developing military expansion, imo. In like manner people fail to distinguish between the massive debt (national) and the massive creditor system (empire) that owns that debt, and supports the empire at the expense of the home nation in this stretch of expansion. They choose empire expansion, over national preservation.
In such an expansion of the credit system merely floating unbacked paper and digital dollars that nations believe in as "debt", the creditor system assumes no real risk, while the nations are securitized in their properties of various kinds to back the debt—with ultimately the nation itself as the "collateral", very convenient for the empire. Thus as debt expands and reaches terminal mass, the carpet of financial empire expands and deepens internationally, as 2/3 of global fiat currencies are based on the US Dollar reserve currency, terminal petro-dollar dependence, economic forced co-dependency, etc, etc.
So the US/UK empire is fine, couldn't be better in fact, the national base is debt compromised, and that works for the ultimate advantage of the global empire. In one way or another the rest of the nations must follow the US and EU debt core trajectory down, so the empire is globally secured financially in the rarely mentioned super-corporate credit empire assured reception of national collateral assets and debt terms of recovery. Empire ascends on nation-state decline in real power. (Real power is real wealth control. Real wealth control controls everything else.)
Now the military empire merely completes the loose ends to secure the core trans-national corporate network protection of the corporate based entities that fund them (etc) at that level, and more than the just US and EU nations are in that scope of corporatism, ultimately Russia and China have as much to lose or gain in this as any other nations, and their tiers of trans-national corporate finance and investment are in this same global game. Thus all incentive is to eventaully give in to the more powerful empire, in time it just makes sense once the nations set their dated egos aside. IMO they will, because they will have to for financial recovery; enter the "Master Creditor" Empire system hero.
No one can actually reverse or resist the global power paradigm of collective power assembled properly to actually be functional. In time the nation-state system will make this realization the very paradigm of world power has shifted, it is just culminating in a formulaic cycle. The equation is the equationof world government and its globally distributed actual system components most powerful in the corporate conglomeration core of that real authority, by real wealth control, by a real international legal system that will be backed, in the process, by real power. 80% of it is already there, maybe more, it has to run the course and cycle and make it all globaly "official" progressively.
Thus two real tiers of global finance and wealth consolidation has formed, one supports the "empire" in real hard wealth, the other secures the nations in terminal debt, currency systems and economic enforced dependency and it sort of has to eventually merge into a globalized final wealth solution in truly globalized form. The digital systems that administer that actual global financial matrix, and the military matrix, all must centralize the network functions, but distribute that into all the nations.
Thus the computer systems are also globalizing, for example the InterContinentalExchange (ICE) will soon support a full High Frequency Trading (HFT) co-location super-network to facilitate, in time, most or all the major stock exchanges, Equity options exchanges, OTC energy, credit and equity markets on to derivatives. Not that they are that "monopoly" but are part of its global consolidation trend. The principle of centralized consolidation, but global in distribution, is what is common.
Much development is in place and will continue to ensure empire over nation-state authority, but it will absorb it mostly financially. Anything needing further persuasion will be brought in by Global NATO and that camp of massive military capability easily doubling the war potential of Russia and China combined. Thus Russia and China and all the smaller units, must mathematically capitulate in time to the Empire Core, which is of course true central world government, yet in required distributed form.
So as bad as it may get, don't buy that "end of the world" doomsday effect, imo, this is a cycle, a big global cycle, with a BIG Empire goal.
Imo, that is what is unfolding over the next decade. Any global war that may develop will not be the "doomsday" many are trained to expect, it just facilitates the completion of the US/UK empire into a total globalism for real. Empire is the networking of real world government, always has been, monopoly is always the goal, most fail, the US/UK based system will be successful, imo. The natural evolution of an empire, if it is to meet its goal of global monopoly, is of course owning and controlling the whole planet, whole globalization, and that whole is whole world government that requires more than just the US and EU nation-states to fully actually function at true worldwide scope of authority.
They will achieve that combined sovereignty uni-polar sovereignty imo. JWs are teaching a premature "end of the world" to match the "doomsday" effect in some parts of the mass global uncertainty. Bethel, and thus JWs, are dated in even current events for 40 years plus, so they are unreliable forecasters, they can't even see their own religious empire showing signs of implosion, thus they cannot perceive the true progress and process of fuller globalization. JWs are trained to want the world to end, and in that they will be disappointed; Bethel will end long before the Global Empire. It will not be "the end" coming up, imo, it is just a real global government cycle to finalize the obvious.
That is why "empire" and "nation-state" systems naturally differ in their outward (empire) international and inward (nation) national scope of organized control. Empire has always required international scope strategies in finance, military and geo-positioning, and that is why "world" government is really not that surprising. Wealth and debt control controls nations in the same principle as it controls people, and that is the core globalization that drives the rest, of course. As nations "lose control", the master creditor systems "assumes control" fully, it is that simple in principle, but it will be economically turbulent for a while globally.
Global scale war then re-glues it all together, runs its course to another peace resolution, and this one at global scope as the basis for that world government presentation, imo. Its not rocket science nor do you have to be a prophet to see it, its the FOURTH time this cycle has run since WW1. Most people do not notice GWOT is a global scale stated "world war", and probably has a pre-positioning from 2001 to today, for a second phase. It is just deployed in a unique manner, but now that pre-positioning is complete, imo, and the final phase can now run on the Russia centric system to finish what the Cold War started: UN-NATO Empire victory, but with the purpose of "uniting the world" of nation-states merely demoted for a true central uni-polar authority and more comprehensive objective.
Imo, in time Russia and China will be big world government backers and participants, its just a matter of time and some more required global drama.
