USA to lose superpower status (middle east, independent, how much, military)
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Funny how the US seems to be the only country trying to diminish it's power led be our leaders in DC.
Maybe we are learning from the fatal mistakes of all the other nations who had empires. The lesson they all teach is that sometimes being a world power is simply not worth the cost. There has always come a time when the center of an empire either abandons it's empire or becomes impoverished trying to maintain it.
France did better than England by letting go before their empire drove them broke. The Netherlands did better than France. We are now the very last super power.
What does this tell us? Why have all the others opted out of the super power game now? We are the last partly through default because we retained the ability to afford all those super expensive toys that project national might. And we have since learned the same lessons all the others learned earlier:
A $20.00 IED can wipe out a $30,000 dollar Humvee with no prob. Put another $30,000 Humvee in to replace the first, and watch the same thing happen all over again. And don't forget to add in all the cost of getting those Humvees halfway around the world, and the costs of keeping them fueled and operating. One day's cost would be enough to build thousands of IEDs.
The Romans spent that kind of money on Hadrian's Wall, but it didn't work any better than the Humvees; the Celts still whooped their butts in the long run. Maybe their empire would have lasted longer if that money and effort had been better spent, maybe not. The fact is, the wall failed.
A hundred centuries later, the Brits never learned that lesson. They thought ships and armies did a better job than walls. Where is their empire now? Gone, by their own desire. Handed off to those they once ruled, leaving a nation that is still recuperating some 60 years after the last vestiges were handed away.
Maybe we are learning from the fatal mistakes of all the other nations who had empires. The lesson they all teach is that sometimes being a world power is simply not worth the cost. There has always come a time when the center of an empire either abandons it's empire or becomes impoverished trying to maintain it.
France did better than England by letting go before their empire drove them broke. The Netherlands did better than France. We are now the very last super power.
What does this tell us? Why have all the others opted out of the super power game now? We are the last partly through default because we retained the ability to afford all those super expensive toys that project national might. And we have since learned the same lessons all the others learned earlier:
A $20.00 IED can wipe out a $30,000 dollar Humvee with no prob. Put another $30,000 Humvee in to replace the first, and watch the same thing happen all over again. And don't forget to add in all the cost of getting those Humvees halfway around the world, and the costs of keeping them fueled and operating. One day's cost would be enough to build thousands of IEDs.
The Romans spent that kind of money on Hadrian's Wall, but it didn't work any better than the Humvees; the Celts still whooped their butts in the long run. Maybe their empire would have lasted longer if that money and effort had been better spent, maybe not. The fact is, the wall failed.
A hundred centuries later, the Brits never learned that lesson. They thought ships and armies did a better job than walls. Where is their empire now? Gone, by their own desire. Handed off to those they once ruled, leaving a nation that is still recuperating some 60 years after the last vestiges were handed away.
The US is not an empire. We aren't taking over coutries and colonizing them like the french and english. No we are ensuring oil is traded in US dollars. That is our empire. That goes away you aint seen nothing yet. You think we can't afford stuff now? LOL. Good luck. Hell it's already happening so you will get your wish. Just remember you wanted it not me.
The US is not an empire. We aren't taking over coutries and colonizing them like the french and english. No we are ensuring oil is traded in US dollars. That is our empire. That goes away you aint seen nothing yet. You think we can't afford stuff now? LOL. Good luck. Hell it's already happening so you will get your wish. Just remember you wanted it not me.
The U.S.'s problem has never been that we can't afford things.
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