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>Genghis conquered half of Asia Are we really comparing this to a country that's nearly 240 years old and is a global superpower that has weathered everything
by drzaiusapelord 11y ago
>Genghis conquered half of Asia
Are we really comparing this to a country that's nearly 240 years old and is a global superpower that has weathered everything from civil war, a major depression, defeating communism, a moon landing, inventing the internet and all the technologies you're using right now, the largest economy by GDP, the most powerful military in history, etc?
This is like saying the The Who or The Stones should have broken up by 1970 because the Dave Clark Five did. I think youre purposely selling short the USA and citing election hysteria that happens every four years is far from convincing. If anything this kind of discourse is healthy and good in a democracy.
- zepto 11y agoYes - why not? Are you saying that civil war and defeating communism means that the US is immune to internal problems? There are many previous examples of societies that survived a civil war and defeated similar sized opponents, but later collapsed. Why not this one?
- astazangasta 11y agoWhat's a better comparison? Tsarist Russia? The Ottoman Empire? Rome? What goes up must come down. Sometimes it is fast, sometimes slow.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI'm not sure about defeating communism. I'd say communism was destined to defeat itself from its inception, and it did.
- vixen99 11y ago- and heavily in debt to the rest of the world.