Want to Know What a Former Superpower Looks Like?This is a cautionary tale particularly worth scrutinizing as an unstable world lurches into a new geopolitical era.
Military and Economy -- Decimated
After years of budget cuts and neglect, Britain’s armed forces have been decimated. While politicians speak of technological advances with words like "modernization," "flexibility" and "efficiency," steep and steady cutbacks in troops, vehicles, weapons and equipment have devastated the nation’s defenses.
Falling Apart and Turning to Crime
Other factors are clearly contributing to the problem as well, however - most notably the wasteland that once was British family life. The broken homes that dot the landscape are proven breeding grounds for future criminals.
How the Police Are Handling the Problem
"In the last few years violent crime has risen sharply, with the police seemingly unwilling to investigate or prosecute even many serious offenses and government guidelines requiring judges sentence those found guilty to little or no prison time."
Four Decades Ago -- a Warning
this dramatic collapse was written about in advance.
What Is Its' Fate?
"He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again. ... Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing" (Job 12:23; Isaiah 40:15)
The shores of history are strewn with the wrecks of empires - Winston Churchill
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