The Zero-Sum Game Killing America – And Why It’s Now Too Late To Stop It

May 20, 2026

By Photomotoman

Political Editorial Opinion

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I have for the last thirty or so years had a real problem in trying to understand why the United States continues on its own self-destructive path.

One would have thought that after Vietnam, the U.S. would have reflected on the irrationality of imposing its beliefs on other nations, especially those who fall under different political systems, such as China’s or the former Soviet Union’s.

America, instead of collaboration, chose conflict, willfully and doggedly, irregardless of the cost or the loss. And what began with Korea, though at that time supported by its allies, became as much an irrational response when America then pursued to defeat communism in Vietnam. A place most Americans couldn’t even find on a map.

But it didn’t end there. America’s hubris, its arrogance was so great that it then dived, headlong into the Iraq War, then Iraq II. It was as though America believed that it had unlimited capacity to both absorb and to project power, which was a fallacy then, and is even more a fallacy today.

Since and including Vietnam, America has spend at least 5.6 trillion dollars fighting wars, irrespective of the human cost or the toll to the civilian populations of those countries, where millions have died at the hands of America.

However, Hubris in America Never Sleeps

So then what does America do?

Did it learn anything from 60 years of defeat? Did it learn anything from 60 years of loss and financial destruction?

Of course not.

So, under a man so devoid of character that human life means virtually nothing, and profit and greed being his only measures of success, he decides to entertain, not just another war, but a national imperative to rule the world as he sees it, by fiat.

And so this is where America’s future is now so tenuous, that a nation with a GDP that is 1.5% of the United States of America is now defeating it once again in the middle-east.

America has learned nothing.

America’s Summary Execution for Profit

For more than six months the United States has been killing people in small boats off Venezuela and the Pacific Coast of South America.

Richard Wolff, a renowned U.S. economist from the University of Massachusetts, states the following;

“Summarily killing with no proof, no arrest, no trial, simply mass murder from the sky. It provided Israel with 90,000 tonnes of bombs to rain terror from the sky on a populace that had nowhere to escape, no defence, no Air Force, no missiles to intercept those aircraft that ultimately killed more than 86,000 Palestinians, and it is still doing so today.

America has become a genocidal killer, or, at best a sociopathic nation adept at killing people. Even drug trafficking is not a capital crime in the U.S., and every accused is provided with legal representation and his day in court in front of a judge and jury. And even then he will receive a ‘sentence’ that in most cases is not particularly lengthy.

Yet, America, unilaterally, internationally now decides to ‘murder’ people and refuses to accept responsibility for doing so.

China is overtaking the United States. China’s GDP is growing between 5–9% annually, while the U.S. is at 2%. This needs to be understood. The growth of 60% in the U.S. defence budget in one year, has never ever occurred before. The current government’s ’disastrous decisions’ including massively growing the U.S. military budget, adds to all the other mistakes of threatening to take over Greenland, to annex Canada, to leave NATO, and to attack Iran.

America has become nothing but showmanship. Yes, the stock market is doing good, but 80% of the wealth is held by less than 1 percent of the population. That is irrational. The average American sees the stock markets as irrelevant, because they have no stake in it.

McDonald’s, their CEO is introducing cheaper meals. “Americans have run out of money.” They are facing the reality of not having enough money to feed themselves.

We don’t even know if Mr. Trump will accept the electoral outcome in November.”

End Game

America is in decline. And the decline is increasing rapidly. It wasn’t necessarily going to be the case, however, due to the current administration’s asinine behaviour since it took office, America has been creating enemies, undermining its own, and the global economy while alienating every former trading partner, military ally and friend around the globe.

The result won’t simply be a minor correction. The EU, Canada, Japan, the ROK, the U.K., Australia, NZ, and countries that are rapidly emerging powers like India, Indonesia, Turkey and Brazil are now adamantly opposed to the actions and future plans of the United States.

By the time that Trump’s current term is up, it is highly likely that the EU and NATO will have ‘told’ America to leave its bases in Europe. It’s likely that Canada will have further decreased trade with the United States by 30% to 35% in just four years.

A new multipolar global trade and development organization will form, that will no longer utilize the American dollar. BRICS, and this new Global Trade Organization will control more than 65% of global GDP, with China principally controlling the rest, save for the 10% that America now controls, and which is shrinking.

All this, while ignoring China, a nation whose influence and productivity America can no longer match. GDP, especially in light of the fact that more than 70% of America’s supposed GDP growth, has all been in an investment in AI, is a joke. Over 700 billion has been invested in data centres and AI programs, that as of yet, show no ability to recoup those costs. It is becoming so problematic, that the U.S. may well have trouble servicing its power needs, just to service those data centres.

In almost every single technological area, China is eating America’s lunch, dinner and dessert.

Yet, America still ‘pretends’ and illustrates showmanship, and very little substance.

America has squandered its power, both soft and militarily around the globe on ventures of fist pumping and chest beating, while taking a beating.

America has proven itself to be unpredictable, irrational, self-interested and virtually without ethics or morals.

America was once a great nation. One that the nations of the world revered and looked up to. Now, it is a nation not to be trusted, to be bypassed and looked beyond.

America’s hubris, arrogance and its unethical and inhumane actions have led it down a path from which there will be no return.

The world is beating a path away from America, and it will continue indefinitely into the future.

America is no longer a superpower. It is a global privateer seeking victims and supplicants, none of which it will find willing to become allies or partners again.

No More

Once America ‘was’ something.

It didn’t equivocate. It didn’t require interpretation or ‘benefit of the doubt’. America ‘stood for something’.

The world knew what America represented. We knew its ‘truths’.

We could expect. We could…Trust America.

No More.

Now, we also ‘know’ America. We too, no longer have to equivocate, question or interpret.

We can ‘see’ America.

We didn’t used to question what America stood for, what it represented, what it believed in.

And today, we no longer do, either.

America IS not a democracy. America is a rogue state run by a sociopathic kleptocrat. One whose actions require no interpretation.

Those actions do not represent “We the People”, they represent “Me the parasitic kleptocrat”. “All for one, and one for me.”

So we will not trust, nor will we equivocate or interpret. We will call America what it is. A rogue state that kills, steals, lies, hates and will stab any friend, any ally, any partner in the back.

And, it will align with any foe, when it serves the values it now illustrates.

We will call America out and say what we ‘see’ in America.

For America is now the ‘enemy’ of intelligence, the enemy of reason, of logic. It is hubris, lies and hate in equal measure.

And America, as we ‘knew it’, is no more.

Now, we too, ‘know America’.