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Well that and decades of being the only industrialized nation not carpet bombed in a world war we have been riding on that and being issuer the global reserve c
by smegger001 10mo ago
Well that and decades of being the only industrialized nation not carpet bombed in a world war we have been riding on that and being issuer the global reserve currency for decades.
- red-iron-pine 10mo agomore than just carpet bombing -- the nukes, the genocides, the Communist purges before (USSR) and after (Red China) all advanced countries basically got slaughtered to varying degrees and the US saw no real systemic damage and comparatively light levels of dead. it's like if all of NATO and the Asian Tigers collapsed today except for China -- already a dominant player they jump to superpower status