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If you look at history being a world power is short lived.
Posted on: February 2, 2019 at 08:07:03 CT
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Projecting power and influence is expensive. No one can do it for too long while at the same time trying to keep the citizens at home pacified.
You can have world power or you can have bread and circuses, you cannot have both for very long.
We are in the decline of the American empire. How long it takes is hard to predict. We could toddle along like this for another century or two or something could happen in the next decade that acts like a catalyst to put the collapse in motion.
I am not predicting America will burn, simply that we will fade to the background much like the British empire did.
Edited by DHighlander at 08:08:01 on 02/02/19
You can have world power or you can have bread and circuses, you cannot have both for very long.
We are in the decline of the American empire. How long it takes is hard to predict. We could toddle along like this for another century or two or something could happen in the next decade that acts like a catalyst to put the collapse in motion.
I am not predicting America will burn, simply that we will fade to the background much like the British empire did.
Edited by DHighlander at 08:08:01 on 02/02/19
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If you look at history being a world power is short lived. - DHighlander KC - 2/2 08:07:03