At the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin said something strange. He said “It may seem strange, but during these four days of negotiations, both informal and formal, no one has ever expressed any negative opinions about the current American administration.” This must be what it's like when you're truly over someone. You don't think about them much at all.

I must admit that I don't—as a mote on the end of Sri Lanka—have this luxury. The IMF still runs my economy, we still dock warships from America, we still host 'Israelis' in Arugam Bay. We are, in short, still occupied, and America still preoccupies me, mentally. They say that the opposite of love is indifference, but I'm not there yet. I'm still on the hatred part of the spectrum.

But you have to admit that this is the end goal, to be stop talking about them. Not negotiating with the White Empire (America, Europe, same thing), not fighting with them, but just moving on without them. In that sense, China has reached the mountain peak, partly on account of America being in a hole and still digging. America has been trying to pivot its bad intentions to China for decades but ends up fighting Russia and Iran, ie rebooting last century, and getting booted from history unceremoniously in the process. American military ‘planners’ keep listing China as a ‘pacing threat’ but their own military is on a pacemaker, nearly dead. They're only good for killing children, which cannot stop the future from coming.

You could see this in the World War II commemoration parade that China (which destroyed 70% of the Japanese Army) invited Russia (which destroyed 80% of the German Army) to attend. In addition to being able to march straight, China also outshone the Americans by displaying a scale, quality, and entire categories of weaponry that America hasn't even thought of. In the recent American parade that Trump ordered, listless men just carried DJI-type drones around in their hands and wheeled old howitzers around. The whole parade had to be sponsored by corporations because the American state is bust-out and bankrupt. The contrast couldn't be more apparent. America needs Chinese support to attack China, and China doesn't need to take any shit from them. It's a brand new century, if the old century would just end.

As World War III rages across Asia—a genocide in Palestine, land war in the Ukraine, rumors of war in Taiwan, what else do you call this?—sometimes it's hard to believe that this final, most violent, incarnation of White Empire is ending. But it is. They're going supernova and collapsing, incinerating vassals as they outgas, eventually collapsing to a white hole within. This is a dying empire led by bad people, as young Americans themselves say. They don't even cover up their child raping, child murdering, and child starving, they're just a bunch of old rich people trying to stop the future from coming by killing children. But they won't live forever, howevermuch sacrifice they offer to the market gods they inflate. The Greatest Depression is coming, inshallah, to hit them in the only place they feel anything. Their wallets.

Trump, our idiot inside, is accelerating this process with his terrific tariffs. I say terrific because the whole world should be embargoing America, and Trump is forcing a hysterical hartal upon them. Take India—present at the SCO meeting— please, Trump seems to be saying. India was an ally of America and even 'Israel' and fairly rabidly anti-China if you watch their news programming (don't). But material concerns trump all, and Trump's 50% tariffs on India throw them into the Chinese and Russian camp, ie the continent they're in, tossing them over even Himalayan levels of pride hubris. It's difficult to overstate how much India has been hostile to China, but Trump's bedwetting makes for strange bedfellows. India has always been the weak link in BRICS, but now they're forced in.

So now we get the optics of many people gathering around people like Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, and only the pathetic Europeans around the Americans, as America openly humiliates them. The White Empire has nothing left but its rump to chew on, as it stews in its own isolation. This was happening slowly, but they decided to accelerate the process out of sheer cussedness. So now they get crossed out, not soon enough, but sooner than expected. It's a different century, and one which doesn't include them. Now they are hated globally, but that's not the victory. The victory will be when we can ignore them, as some terrible footnote to history. I'm not there yet, but I look forward to the day I don't need to write about White Empire at all.