It's too late. The brakes have been cut. 

The US *government* is broke. That's a good thing. The capitalist revolution is winning. All the world's private sectors are reclaiming their rightful authority.

Petrodollar empire is precisely what it is.
Without its global fiat debt petrodollar seigniorage and interest income the USA empire is BROKE.
You don't produce anything of value anymore at a competitive price- nobody needs you anymore.
You are irrelevant and corrupt and cling to power via murder and debt slavery.
Go back to the woods and sit by a pond and rethink what you are doing because it is headed toward complete disaster for the people of USA.

Solomonsatoshi

There was never any such thing as a US empire. It looked like an empire to you because your tyranny-addled Euro-mindset state-worshipping brain could not comprehend how a country could become this rich without imperial conquest. But 

Politics_And_Law

Iran Blew Up the Navy’s Supply Hub. Lincoln’s Crew Paid the Price.

Yermin

There was never any such thing as a US empire. It looked like an empire to you because your tyranny-addled Euro-mindset state-worshipping brain could not comprehend how a country could become this rich without imperial conquest. But *this* is the founding of the American Empire.