https://twitter.com/apex_simmaps/status/1381989893224685569
Life expectancy for all races have collapsed. No doubt the drop is steepest among men since males, particularly working class ones have been decimated by outsourcing and corporate consolidation.
Suicides and drug addiction are also on the rise.
There's also the similiarity of an enormous but decrepit military. The red army of the 1980s was the world's largest land army, boasting as many as 50,000 tanks and almost 4 milion men. Yet it suffered from poor morale, low pay, corrupt bureaucracy and ethnic resentment. I'd say the situation is simliar to the current US military, but looking at the trans navy seals, homosexuals and black wahmen of color, I think its safe to say that the US military is worse off than the late Soviet army.
For all its faults, the Red army did fight a destructive but effective campaign in Afghanistan before being forced to retreat due to domestic turmoil.
The Red army just like the US military today also hogged most of the budget. The real US expenditure on the military-intelligence complex easily crosses over one trillion. The military alone accounts for nearly 30% of the budget and 54% of discretionary spending.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/tom-dispatch-america-defense-budget-bigger-than-you-think/
The most haunting resemblance however is the gerontocracy that came to mark both regimes. Almost all major power brokers in the US are old enough to be my grandfather(i'm 25). Joe Biden is 78, the oldest President in US history. Chuck Schumer, Mitch Mcconnell and Nancy Pelosi are all past 70.
Its no different in the deep state sphere either. Soros and Kissinger are both over 90. Jacob Rothschild is 82. Both David Rockefeller and George Schultz recently croaked. Gates is 65. Bezos is slightly younger at 57.
This gerontocracy indicates a selfish lust for power among the ruling class and a mistrust of their successors. I don't know much about them but from what I've seen, the younger Rockefellers, Soros and Rothschild are nothing compared to the old patriarchs.
The Soviet Union fell into a tailspin after Yuri Andropov died in 1984, I wonder if the same is happening to the US since David Rockefeller died in 2017. The elite have become completely unhinged in the last 4-6 years. Gone are the cautious and judicious silent gens and older boomers.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/510407-us-biden-gerontocracy-soviet-union/
But perhaps the most glaring similarility is in the loss of faith in the system. The American people no longer have faith in the American system, openly seeing it as a tool of plutocratic power. Most Americans have no desire to serve in the military, and the core population of the US, Europeans, are almost a minority at 56%(or less). The boomer and silent generation that over saw the liberal experiment are either dead or dying. The younger generations don't believe in American exceptionalism and global leadership and shining city on the hill stuff.
In the late USSR, most citizens did not want to serve in the military. Only 1% of conscripts would re-enlist. Ethnic Russians fell to about 53% or so of the population, and the Bolshevik revolution and WW2 generation had largely died out. It did not survive long after that.
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