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> Britain as the world's top superpower of the era was destroyed by having to come to the aid of Belgium in August 1914. Unintended consequences are a bitch. I
by avmich 3y ago
> Britain as the world's top superpower of the era was destroyed by having to come to the aid of Belgium in August 1914. Unintended consequences are a bitch.
Interesting viewpoint. So if Britain wouldn't have to come to the aid of Belgium in August 1914 it would still be the world's top superpower... Interesting.
- simonblack 3y agoit would still be the world's top superpower... Interesting. Extremely unlikely, but possible. The great impetus to the US being 'top dog' was the huge profits the US made from World War 1 where all of the British and French money went. Without WW1, WW2 might not have happened the way it did either. That leaves a slowly growing US that might have been less 'exceptional' and more long-lived. More like the much longer British rise and fall over several centuries than a short-lived one-century-long rise and fall.