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This is accurate. The only reason America (and dollar) holds up is because the primary competitors are worse. China - too much government control, communist an

This is accurate. The only reason America (and dollar) holds up is because the primary competitors are worse. China - too much government control, communist and not of the people EU - aging and brexited, too many factions UK - Strong institutions but inconsequential small island nation Japan - aging Aus/Canada - too small population to do anything Russia - untrustworthy India - still too poor but perhaps the only democratic country with a large enough population to counter the US dominance. But India and US appear to be very friendly to each other.

xxpor 5y ago
Re: India. It turns out the US has a pretty good system. Nations that might compete also tend to have a similarish system (India's more protectionist, but that'll probably change as they get richer). But if you have a similar system, you'll be friendly with the US. Because being friendly with the US means making more money. We don't have things like the sino-soviet split because our only ideology is nominally capitalism but really making money (at least for elites). That is to say, even if we didn't have the cold war, due to their systems we couldn't really make money in the Eastern bloc anyway. So the cold war made sense. But we're also perfectly fine with India because everyone's making their money, why be mad?