And it's going to stop by doing what exactly? The West has had a head start in science and tech. But China and soon India will catch up. It's a simple numbers

And it's going to stop by doing what exactly? The West has had a head start in science and tech. But China and soon India will catch up. It's a simple numbers game. They both have a billion MORE people each than the entire American population. You can't fight that and remain king of the hill forever. Archimedes, Pythagoras and Euclid weren't born in the US. Maybe the Greeks should have thought like you declared Geometry a national security matter and hidden it away from the rest of the world. Most people understand why Greeks don't rule the world today and most people understand the more interconnected everything gets the less one country is going to dominate anything. The best strategy is to actively push for more and more multinational collab till it gets harder and harder for anyone country to dominate anything. But ofcourse that requires balls and imagination.