[Blasterlord2]

There is a common thread to half-baked surface analyses that often get a lot of views on both alternative and mainstream media – they like to simply pin everything that has happened so far on one or few people and/or a particular incident.
 
The rise and fall of all empires in the past including the present US one is a result of a multitude of factors working with or against each other. Some of these factors are coincidental (usually described as good or bad luck), but more often than not there is also a discernible pattern / rhythm to it.
 
Personally I find similarities between History and the Theory of Evolution on a philosophical level i.e. there is great randomness happening at the granular level and yet from a macro and longer term perspective there is also a sense of inevitability due to an overarching principle driving things along. Perhaps Doyle's Sherlock Homes sums it up best: "while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
 
The idea that the US’s eventual decline is a result of certain Presidents not being “far sighted” or “strategic” enough in their leadership is simply lazy primary school analysis that doesn’t pass the laugh test.
 
People like to hear / read this sort of thing because it provides a simple explanation to an otherwise complex topic without the need to further research or think.

Study nature and we will find that everything that rises will eventually fall. It cannot be prevented. Even spore will encounter this fate.