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History does indeed have a tendency to repeat itself, and if you go a little further back than the eighties you'll se that the way empires usually fall is by ov
by mixmax 15y ago
History does indeed have a tendency to repeat itself, and if you go a little further back than the eighties you'll se that the way empires usually fall is by overreaching, and trying to control and colonise beyond their ability. In the end they implode.
America is clearly overreaching at the moment.
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- bfung 15y ago"America is clearly overreaching at the moment." Any facts/figures and comparisons to elaborate on this statement? I can see some arguments for this, but at the same time, the technologies we have these days might give this "overreach" some scaling power, so the US might not actually be overreaching...
- mixmax 15y agoIt seems pretty obvious, so I didn't think it needed elaboration, but try looking at the budget of the US military.