Pax Americana

American military and institutional dominance that guarantees peace while enforcing imperial control.

The Anglo-American imperial order baby boomers grew up in and want preserved through their lifetimes.

The present American-led order Jiang contrasts with World War II nationalism: rules-based institutions, human rights, free trade, and consumerism.

Post-Soviet global order under American hegemony.

The New World Order is summarized as three pillars: America as world financial capital, secular multicultural consumerism, and American global security domination.

Pax Americana worked through aerial supremacy, special forces, CIA influence, and the capacity to sabotage or destroy governments that challenged the American empire.

The Iran war is not reducible to Donald Trump or Israel; Jiang reads it as an expression of a corrupt, self-indulgent, lazy, and arrogant American empire at the end of Pax Americana.

Cheap global flight is a recent effect of Pax Americana's guarantee of low-conflict air routes, and Jiang predicts this world will end with expensive flights and unaffordable vacations.

The post-World-War-II population boom under Pax Americana is unsustainable, and a severe crisis would trigger an extreme correction through food scarcity.

The end of Pax Americana will produce regional trading blocs, a return to mercantilism in which local hegemons guarantee trade only among allies.

America will need to move from secular global Pax Americana to a national, community-centered Christian identity that Jiang calls an American Holy Empire.

Baby boomers would rather sacrifice their children and grandchildren and burn down the empire than lose the Pax Americana during their lifetimes.