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The U.S Is Spain

Robert Kiyosaki

Brian Maher

Contributor, Freedom Financial News
Posted Feb 03, 2025

Dear Reader,

President Trump has already drawn the sharp sword of the Republic… and smited down its foes.

Reports Zero Hedge:

  • The Trump White House has announced the president ordered a wave of airstrikes on Islamic State cells in Somalia on Saturday, in the very first US strikes abroad since Donald Trump entered his second term…
  • Trump on social media hailed that the attacks destroyed the “caves” that ISIS terrorists live in… Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did!” Trump wrote.

Just so. I am heart and soul for the United States. I am likewise heart and soul against its enemies — ISIS certainly.

Yet let us consider the overall position — the historical position.

Many believe the United States is the heir of Rome.

Rome is the United States… the United States is Rome.

Yet is the United States… in fact… Spain?

Less Rome Than Spain

A certain R. Taggart Murphy professes international political economy at a Japanese university. From whom:

  • Those contemplating the possible demise of American global hegemony most often turn for lessons to Rome… but the parallels between America and Spain are striking.

Striking? You have seized our attention. Please, sir, elaborate.

  • Spain was the first global superpower. Obviously, there had been other great powers — Rome, the China of the Tang and Ming dynasties, the vast Mongol domains — but none had spanned oceans and continents the way the Spanish Empire did at its height.
  • In the first half of the 16th century, Charles V reigned over vast swathes of Europe; his son Philip II controlled most of the Western Hemisphere as well as a sizable chunk of Asia (the Philippines were named after him).
  • Imperial Spain’s maximum territorial reach would only be surpassed by the British Empire in the 19th century, and in the 20th by the informal American imperium, with its 750 overseas bases and network of global alliances.

I must agree. The Spanish reach was vast — as the American reach is vast.

Money and Empire

And as the American empire bosses the world with its dollar… the Spanish Empire bossed the world with its gold and silver specie:

  • The most revealing parallels relate to a different expansionary dynamic — that of money. The key to so much else that happened to both countries was the appearance of what seemed like unlimited wealth but was actually access to unlimited quantities of a universal medium of exchange, craved and accepted everywhere.
  • In the late 16th century, the Spanish elite could buy whatever it wanted wherever it wanted with the gold and silver that was pouring into Spain from the mines of Peru and Mexico. Today, the American ruling class can do the same with U.S. dollars created at will…
  • That Midas-like power permitted elites in both countries to confuse money with what it could buy, and led to financialization, politically dangerous levels of inequality and the wasting of wealth on endless wars aimed at remaking the world in the image, respectively, of Iberian Catholicism and American democracy.

I believe this Murphy fellow has struck bullseye.

He sketches a parallel very nearly perfect — in my estimation at least.

Mr. Murphy proceeds to inform us that Spain was the most debt-sunken nation of Europe… despite its infinities of gold and silver.

I might remind you that the United States national debt presently exceeds $36 trillion. And that its debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds 124%.

Spain Blows It

What, Mr. Murphy, befell Spain and its American-mirrored empire?

  • Spain blew it. Already by the middle of the 17th century, under the crisis-ridden rule of Philip IV, the Iberian kingdom “had been left behind by the rest of Europe,” as John A. Crow wrote in his classic study Spain: The Root and the Flower

The next question is the natural question: Will the United States steer an identical course?

  • Over the past several decades, dollar hegemony has landed the United States in the same position that Spain enjoyed after the conquest of the Aztec and Inca empires. Like Habsburg monarchs of an earlier age, those who manage the American economy are able to run “deficits without tears”…
  • But if Spanish history is any guide… all that money tempts you to do what less well-positioned countries would hesitate to consider — because they can’t afford it: namely, wage endless wars.

Imperial Ideology

Mr. Murphy cites an additional Spanish-American parallel: Ideology.

Spain had its infamous Inquisition, yes.

Yet the United States has run its own Inquisition of sorts — an Inquisition not religious in nature — yet secular in nature:

  • The parallels extend from the material substrate to the cultural and ideological realm… Washington [has established] an updated Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition…
  • The institutional and technical apparatus that this newly reincarnated Holy Office has constructed to impose orthodoxy and eliminate error would earn the envy and admiration of its Spanish forebears.
  • It starts with the ubiquitous diversity, equity and inclusion offices in practically every corporation, university, government agency and civil-society organization…
  • It has new names, the “Global Engagement Center” in the State Department being one of the most noteworthy, but the aims remain the same: ferreting out heresy or, as they now call it, “disinformation.”

Can Trump Really Stop It?

Once again there is juice here. The American imperium has borne a very powerful ideological impress.

You may label it “woke.”

President Trump has declared loudly against it. Yet can he truly scotch it?

I do not know. As the ancients understood:

Time reveals all.

And time may reveal that the United States is Spain.

Brian Maher

for Freedom Financial News