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Guess that's what happens when you base a whole country on slavery and grifting.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

~~Luigi~~ China wins by doing absolutely nothing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

China: the Steam of countries

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

How the fuck the US Empire got to where it was, while being so ridiculous is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 39 minutes ago)

I'm not USAmerican, but from my knowledge, I think here are two reasons

  1. Geographic location
    When EurAsia saw great destruction in the WW's they were far away and safe. So they could benefit from arms sales and similar stuff. Also got some experts and researchers fleeing from EurAsia, who helped in their development.
  2. Decline of traditional colonialism opening opportunities for them
    Coups and takeover of places which where colonialism and other empires were in retreat.
    The power from the 1st point helped here.

Other stuff like the exploitation and murder of natives and slavery helped them set the base for these two points

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

America has only been an empire for a short time as far as empires go. All countries built on Imperialism collapse eventually due to their inherent flaws (spreading too thin, overestimating their superiority, their actions being based on pseudoscientific "dog eat dog" philosophy) and the US is no different. If you want your society to survive you have to ditch the right-wing BS because that only creates a flash in the pan until one day you lose one too many battles as the people you crush get sick of your shit.

The only way to win in the long term is to not be an empire in the first place.

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