The United States is equally divided, but not politically. It is divided tribally, with one tribe engaged in declared warfare against the other tribe that does not yet realize they have been attacked and are in a fight to the death. Part of the problem is that the Left, the attacking tribe, is being aided by elements of the unresisting Republican tribe in the effort to destroy the duly elected president of the United States. Recall that the Conservative Never Trump Movement hired a British agent to compile a false dossier on the candidate Trump, which they then delivered to the enemy Intelligence Services, disguised as the mainstream media, when Republican Senator John McCain gave the fake dossier to James Comey, the Director of the Obama politicized FBI, from where it then became established gospel from a still respected source. Who is standing on the trapdoor? We are. Coup attempts do not typically end well or peacefully; either way there is bloodshed, and not just political blood. We are looking at the very real potential of blood in the streets due to the insane rage of the Left, and a violent overthrow of a popularly elected president by his political enemies will result in armed insurrection against the traitors, and many innocents will be caught in the crossfire. Twice now the Democrats have declared war on a Republican president, and it is unlikely the outcome this time will be different. Has the Rubicon been crossed? Yes it has.

Shallow water holds no fear
For those already crossed
The leaders will not shed a tear
For those who bear the cost
The taste of power in the throat
Drives those who choose up sides
And trapdoors, as the scribes will note
Grow busy on the Ides

The European Union was the child of fear. Fear of German militarism even in the face of a devastated and supine post war Germany. Fear does not often lead to wise choices, and more often than not leads to surrender. The French surrendered the sovereignty of Europe to fear of a possible future revanchist Germany. France was right, in a sense, for it is now time for a revanchist Germany to put down both the EU and the Muslim savages they have themselves invited into their midst. Now if only they had a Rommel.

Thank goodness for the Brexit days
Those good old EU exit days
And Germans can now do what they do best
Arminius and legionnaires
The prancing Uhlan cuirassiers
The Panzer IIIs that gave the French no rest
Thank goodness the good times are back
And hidden weapons can unstack
And uniforms unhung and cleaned and pressed
The banlieus and the migrant camps
Demolished and put out he lamps
And Muslims know why they should fear the West

Yogi Berra once said that predicting stuff was hard, especially about the future. Remember when the wise men predicted that Brazil would be the next rising star? Remember the think tanks publishing studies that showed the Soviet Union would soon overtake the United States? Can China and Islam co-exist? Does anyone else have a say in all this? It was said of the Great Khan that his power was so great that a virgin carrying a purse full of gold could travel the length of the Silk Road without harm. Can the Chinese make the same claim? There is a rise and a fall in the affairs of men. The Ottomans have come and gone, the Great Khan is no more, the legions have left Britain. What will be will be.

The statues crumble into dust
The dreams of conquest sour
To all the end comes, as it must
The year, the date, the hour
Set down by gods for whom the cause
Of death has no real meaning
The birth of China gives no pause
Despite the Western keening
The nations rise, the nations fall
Despairing, in confusion
It happens thus to one and all
Empire is illusion