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I entirely agree that the post-WWII shine is wearing off, but that is a sign of things converging to their right place. The U.S. emerged as the western world's
by Rod 18y ago
I entirely agree that the post-WWII shine is wearing off, but that is a sign of things converging to their right place. The U.S. emerged as the western world's only superpower after a war which left Europe in ruins and half the world behind an Iron Curtain. That was an anomaly.
There's a huge difference between ceasing to be the world's only superpower and collapsing. It seems to me that many people are blinded by schadenfreude indeed, while many others react way too negatively to this new reality.
- sho 18y agoThen we are in full agreement. The problem is that many Americans seem to have interpreted the post-WWII ascendancy of America as some kind of God-given mandate to reign forevermore at the top of Earth's and indeed the Universe's food chain, not for the temporary historical anomaly that it was. Those misguided people are in for a rude awakening, and none too soon. But yes - America will not collapse, of course, no matter how much anyone wishes it. Talk about your "too big to fail". And I for one am .. wary about the Chinese ever gaining as much relative power as the USA possessed at the height of its geopolitical dominance. Petty schadenfreude takes a pretty far back seat to that concern, let me tell you, so I for one am hoping the Yanks can pull out of their dive and go on to maintain a global counterweight to the Yellow Peril, soonest.