• JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Now India and China are rising powers and you are going back to being a regular super-power.

    NOT that I don’t think you’re mistaken, but at the same time, India & China are about as @(*&#-ed as it possibly comes when it comes to being considered ‘super-powers.’

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      2 months ago

      The main thing Americans need to hear but aren’t ready for: you aren’t better than India or China as super powers, in fact, you’re worse than China.

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      2 months ago

      Well, I mean they are all fucked up super-powers now. My main point was that there was a period of like 20+ years where the USA literally ruled the world but didn’t do anything with it.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah, I get you…

        One thing that totally kills me is how the US just *screwed* with so many other nations over the years, mainly for profit, etc.

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          2 months ago

          Same as every super-power in existence ever. Maybe …it’s just a super-power thing?

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        2 months ago

        I am curious on what you mean by ‘didn’t do anything with it’. What should had the USA done in that time?

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          Reinforce the international order of economic cooperation guided by a rules-based system underpinned by the UN,

          Instead there were just foreign adventures in the Middle East and a lot of navel-gazing internal politics about climate change/denialism. You could have set a template for all countries to follow instead of inventing “rolling coal”.

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            2 months ago

            Billionares, Hollywood, Reagansim, War on Drugs etc. Including the things you said it seems they did a lot actually.

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        2 months ago

        They did plenty with it: they brutally repressed the globe to create unimaginable profit for their ruling class.