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On June 26 I posted a blog where I related how the spirit behind communism in the Soviet Union was overthrown by spiritual warfare in 1986. I also told how that spirit then came to America.
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2024/06/the-coming-crisis/
Now a historian, Niall Ferguson, has come to the same conclusion by secular observation of the current political situation in America. In past years I quoted from his 2-volume set of books entitled The House of Rothschild. You can find some of those quotations by inserting his name in our internal search engine on my website.
https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-soviets-now
The witty phrase “late Soviet America” was coined by the Princeton historian Harold James back in 2020. It has only become more apposite since then as the cold war we’re in—the second one—heats up.
I first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. In articles for The New York Times and National Review, I tried to show how the People’s Republic of China now occupies the space vacated by the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991….
But it only recently struck me that in this new Cold War, we—and not the Chinese—might be the Soviets. It’s a bit like that moment when the British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb, playing Waffen-SS officers toward the end of World War II, ask the immortal question: “Are we the baddies?”….
The self-destruction of homo sovieticus was worse. And yet is not the resemblance to the self-destruction of homo americanus the really striking thing?....
A bogus ideology that hardly anyone really believes in, but everyone has to parrot unless they want to be labeled dissidents—sorry, I mean deplorables? Check. A population that no longer regards patriotism, religion, having children, or community involvement as important? Check. How about a massive disaster that lays bare the utter incompetence and mendacity that pervades every level of government? For Chernobyl, read Covid. And, while I make no claims to legal expertise, I think I recognize Soviet justice when I see—in a New York courtroom—the legal system being abused in the hope not just of imprisoning but also of discrediting the leader of the political opposition….
Are we the Soviets? Look around you.
Ferguson gives many more examples comparing the old Soviet Union to America today. I suggest that you read the entire article. If you want to do more study on this, listen to this interview entitled: Niall Ferguson: Are we the Soviets now?