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The collapse of the US Empire and its plan to take the world with it. This is the American Way. Billy Bob on FB: The Coming Global Collapse: 10 Points to Understand Before the Economy Breaks The experts are confused because they use an analytical framework that ignores the primacy of the concept of *class*. John Mearsheimer says "it makes no sense." The mainstream media blames "miscalculations." But if we use the correct framework, it makes perfect sense. The global economy is on the brink of a catastrophic collapse, not by accident, but by design. Here is exactly what is going on, in 10 points: 1. The productive race is over. The US is the headquarters of the Western capitalist class. They cannot out-produce or out-compete China, which is now the world's industrial engine and the top trade partner for over 140 countries. The empire has lost its economic supremacy. 2. The strategy shifted to destruction. Unable to win the productive race, the West has shifted to a strategy of managed decline and scorched earth. If the Western oligarchy cannot control the global economy, it will engage in "creative destruction," hoping to focus the pain on both their sovereign rivals and their vassals. 3. The Middle East is the trigger. The US is deliberately provoking massive destruction of Middle East energy production. The goal is to force Iran to retaliate by destroying the energy infrastructure of the Gulf states (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar) and ensuring energy exports are significantly curtailed. 4. The Energy Supply is being severed. Production is being destroyed and chokepoints are being blocked. An energy deficit is being deliberately manufactured under cover of "Iran wants nukes," "Trump is crazy," or "Israel controls the US." All these explanations miss the mark entirely. 5. The Petro-Gas-Dollar is the goal. The US isn't doing this blindly. Over the last decade, it spent billions building 120+ MTPA of US LNG export capacity. By destroying the Middle East's cheap energy, the US forces Europe and Asia to buy expensive US LNG, re-anchoring the global dollar on American energy dominance. 6. Europe is being deindustrialized. The US is forcing its vassals to cut welfare, dismantle their social safety nets, and buy US weapons. Europe is being hollowed out, deindustrialized, and turned into an imperial garrison to fight proxy wars for Washington. 7. The Hemisphere is being sealed. Under the "Donroe Doctrine," the US is aggressively intervening in Latin America (Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina) to install comprador regimes and cut off China from Western Hemisphere resources. 8. The working class will pay the price. Global depression means skyrocketing mortality rates in the poorest countries, the collapse of global demand, and severe austerity in the West. The social contract is being ripped up to fund the machinery of empire. 9. The oligarchy will profit. While the working class suffers, the transnational capitalist class—defense contractors, US LNG exporters, and Wall Street—will profit immensely from the crisis. They will use the chaos to buy up assets at rock-bottom prices. 10. Trump is the designated scapegoat. The establishment let Trump win because they needed a chaos agent to manage the destruction and take the blame. When the economy crashes, the Democrats will step in, blame Trump, "restore order," and continue the exact same imperial class strategy by pivoting to China. The Bottom Line: The collapse of the global economy is not a "miscalculation." It is the desperate, rational strategy of a dying empire trying to preserve class rule. Learn Marxism. It is the only framework that explains the "irrationality" of the ruling class.