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It has started already. Look at the stock market alone, USA economy, gold/silver all time high even before the biggest crash yesterday. USA is no longer a supe
by h4kunamata 9mo ago
It has started already.
Look at the stock market alone, USA economy, gold/silver all time high even before the biggest crash yesterday.
USA is no longer a superpower, they just haven't noticed it yet.
- silisili 9mo ago> USA is no longer a superpower, they just haven't noticed it yet Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory. One can make an argument the global dollar is losing its hold, or that the world is expanding away from US trade, which are both objectively true. But to say the US is not a superpower is rather foolish.
- ben_w 9mo agoWhen the USA ceases to be a superpower is different from when it ceases to be a powerful threat. Russia is a powerful threat, despite being only a mid-tier power. IMO, the USA probably is still a superpower. But the UK and France didn't realise they'd stopped being superpowers until the Suez Crisis, and I suspect the USA will only discover the loss of superpower status in a similar way. Though not exactly the same, given what happened in Vietnam and Afghanistan, let alone TACOing out of using force to take Greenland.
- Balinares 9mo agoIt's a heavyweight and will remain so, but it's ability to influence what other countries do is in freefall. Whether that disqualifies it as a superpower is a matter of definition, I suppose.
- ta20240528 9mo ago> Well, I feel sorry for the first country that tries to test that theory. I took exactly one British military officer in Greenland to stop the entire US Department of War. I will grant the US is a superpower, even the largest. But they aren't the only one.