they want a world war or submission, that's what empire's do
If they have to destroy our military, instigate terrorism, setup wars on multiple fronts, and drive the (world)economy into the floor to do it, they will and they are.
They will do this through fear in America(psyops) and force everywhere else.
Empires have an average of 200yrs. So America was due for some fool to come along and "stay the course", right off the cliff.
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"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=3822
"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men." - George Orwell