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Originally Posted by bringer
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That was more in response to "Yeah, they certainly excel in . . . . ummm, what is it they do again?"
They operate almost the same as America.. they've also had a lot more experience at being a global power.. so technology, arms sales, development loans etc.
In 100 years people might say "America was the last "China"" ;)
Basically it annoys me to see people poking fun at the last empire because it makes me feel sorry for them for their ignorance.
Unfortunately America's global hegemony won't last forever and it can fall from dominance as quickly as it grew. Sooner or later America will be a quaint country where the people have a legacy of a ruling mindset but the impotence to exercise it like current day England. Merely a player instead of the leader. I hope that day is later rather than sooner but it's a sad inevitability (for the west anyways).