Something about the American decline that I haven't seen Yarvin address, but have seen in Luttwak on Roman strategy.

There is a difference between force and power. You can use power without using it up. Meaning, power is the ability to credibly threaten force without using it.

If you have cohesion while your enemies lack it, you can economize on force by credibly threatening its use, sometimes making an example, and using your allies as proxies.

If your enemies and you both have cohesion, the power you have is equal to the force you can apply.

Once your cohesion breaks down, your forces are locked against each other, and exceed your available power.

There are parallels between the early, middle and late Roman Empire, and the US.

Early Roman Empire-surrounded by client states, high internal cohesion, enemies are fractured culturally and politically, can't coordinate.

Middle Roman Empire-client states absorbed, internal cohesion maintained by force, enemies federating and coordinating...

...becoming united both by concepts received from the Romans via trade and cultural exchange and by opposition to the Romans. Romans can not commit force anywhere without a corresponding weakness somewhere else, which is instantly seized upon.

Late Roman Empire-internal cohesion collapsed, enemies are in large part inside the empire getting protection money and official titles, peripheral population is ruined, plagues and economic collapses coexist with a wealthy center and highly educated but demoralized elite.

Americans are in a transition between stages 2 and 3.

Notice that the Cathedral's enemies-alt-right, NRx nerds, Nazis, black nationalists, Muslims, trads, Russians, Chinese, etc.-all speak the same language now. Tariq Nasheed, Weihan, TechCEOPepe, RT, etc.-we all get the jokes.

Not only that, but by the time that a kid grows up to join the military/police/State Department/Justice Department/academia, he gets the jokes, too.

The Chans and Twitter are both a very American phenomenon and an anti-American one.

The same way that the Roman Empire's cultural, political and economic hegemony over its enemies unified its enemies culturally, politically and economically, so does that of the American Empire.

Back in the 50s-80s, the US had enough force internally that it had to project very little power. Dissidents were mostly treated with kid gloves. Criminals mostly got Officer Friendly and his pistol, baton and boots, and it was enough.

Now, every podunk county has a SWAT team, military-grade ISR, funding and backup from the Feds...and it's not enough.

That's what happens when you lose the ability to economize on force by projecting power.

That's what happens when your subjects have less to lose.

That's what happens when your enemies share a common language-which you yourself taught them!

Anyway. What comes next?

My bet: imperial collapse and a new age of barbarism.

Which is fine by me-like Quigley said and James C. Scott reiterated, the Dark Ages were some of the few where humans enjoyed some sort of basic freedom and autonomy.

Of course, if you happen to be part of the vast majority of Western humans who are completely dependent on the continued functioning of the factory farm society in which you were bred, born and raised, this may not be so much fun for you.

Eventually, we will build the Third Temple and the Messianic Age will happen, whether just in Israel or worldwide. I hope to live to see the day...but maybe I shouldn't hope for it.