Obanana yesterday announced a 15% cut in the budget of the American Imperial Military Force. The Brazilian press is celebrating it and some have begun calling him "the peacemaker" and "the guy". Soon some joker will certainly suggest that he get a new Nobel Peace Prize

I have no illusions. The Obanana decision is only symbolic. After all, even with this modest budget cuts made ​​by him USA will continue to spend in its Imperial Military Force today more than spending at the height of the Cold War.

The empire (or rather the "imperial dynamics" that affects the American nation culturally, socially, economically and politically) was not dismantled. In fact, the empire can not be dismantled because as in the case of Rome, the dismantling of the empire means the dismantling of the State host of the imperial dynamics.

With or without this budget cut the American empire will follow its course until the inward collapse (as in the case of the Portuguese Empire and the old USSR) or destruction in a foreign war (as in the case of the Nazi empire). No doubt about it.