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A century ago people in the UK were probably arguing about the terrible impact of the End of Empire on civilisation. Turns out that the world was rather better
by arethuza 6y ago
A century ago people in the UK were probably arguing about the terrible impact of the End of Empire on civilisation.
Turns out that the world was rather better off without us trying to run a big chunk of it and we were better off as well.
The US will be fine and might even become a better place once they stop being the most powerful country.
- siltpotato 6y agoI'm not ra-ra US on this issue, but "might" is operative here. The world was lucky that the marginally better US came along, and that's even granting, which I do, that the UK empire receding was good. The problem is that there is nothing guaranteeing that the successor will be better (or less worse) or worse.