Up to one hundred and twenty-five years ago, Niagara Country was, so far as we know, almost constantly the scene of conflict. Strife and violence seem to have been characteristic of the area and as much a part of it as the famous cataracts. This irrevocable fact dominates consideration of the region even when the scene is obscured by the rolling fogs of time. The glimpses of the earliest days, that we are able to see, are of violence and death. Niagara Country may well deserve to be called a dark and bloody land. There were times when the Niagara was stained red from the wounds of men, times when it became the battleground, and other times when it served as the broad highway over which fighters rode to combat and later limped home, nursing their wounds and carrying their dead. The physical character of Niagara seems to have made that inevitable. So it is that this thing man calls history, in the sense of fighting and struggle, played a decisive part in making Niagara Country the kind of country it is today. Within the last hundred years, however, the causes of conflict have been practically wiped out. At least, they have been reduced, and Niagara people have attained sufficient political maturity so that they are able to iron out differences through the use of words rather than swords. And they have done this with increasing facility, at the same time maintaining their own individual characteristics. In the early days there was impatient violence. But this finally gave way to tolerance, sometimes impatient, often amused, and even critical, but still tolerance. This is the Niagara Country of mid-twentieth century—Canadian and American—a country of contrasts. — The Prologue
The world now knows that the US military is incapable of enforcing the will of whatever foreign entity it is that rules in Washington DC, and that the imperial government there does not represent the interests nor have the support of the American people. It still has its money printing capabilities and its mercenaries, but decades of the military-financial complex have drained its once-formidable legions and rendered them incapable of large scale, attritional warfare.
This is the customary fate of empires. Once the foreigners begin taking charge, the collapse is inevitable. — The Collapsing Empire by Vox Day