When do u think the US was at it's peak 🌎

@JoyfulSilence No. We are getting closer to the end. ☺

@Zonuss

I hope we get more tolerant and less religious, and less violent and less dishonest. Along with the rest of the world. I hope all nations melt into one global culture, where differences are like nations in Europe, where they have stopped fighting for the most part, and care more about their own people. But not too woke, I hope.

Maybe something like the UN, but with real power, will take over most affairs. Yet not oppressive. Yes, nations will have to cede power, but the States did in the 18th century and we turned out OK, more or less.

Could you imagine no borders, no tariffs, uniform human rights, health care, education, security? No need for military, just police.

@JoyfulSilence sounds like a warlord's paradise

@Jayciedubb

Not if there is a strong democratic World state with supremacy, rule of law, equality under law, fair law, and adequate security apparatus to combat crime and terror. No wars, just actions against criminals.

Warlords would be illegal and declared criminals and arrested. If we need an army to do it, then we raise one. But the war would be a civil war of the World state against revolting citizens. No more wars between sub-states. Just like no more wars between the US states or most European states now.

@JoyfulSilence ..idk, your proposition seems a lot like communism to me. I think it's pretty much the way Marx described it, or the way Lenin sold it to the Russians, who, btw, are at war with their neighbor, Ukraine

@Jayciedubb

With a free market economy.

Just imagine if the US government and economic structures were applied to the whole world. Adding a new federal layer on top. To give it a name, call it the New UN.

The top layer is the New UN. It has a world president or prime minister, then a world congress, assembly, or parliament, and world courts. Yet unlike the current UN it has supreme authority over all member nations, yet only for specifics enumerated powers. All other powers are left to the member nations. Which in this case would be like US states. That is, the relationship of the UN to the nations is like the relationship between the US and the US states.

Then each nation has its own structure. It should be republican (little r), with checks and balances, federalism, rule if law, rights, etc. But the New UN laws always are supreme. Etc.

Or maybe at the top a looser confederation, like the EU has in Europe. Yet still the New UN should have some teeth to it.

Within this New UN there are no militaries, in the traditional sense. The world is one big "nation." There are no wars. Only civil unrest and rebellion. So all military forces are police forces, really. Yes they can have military equipment and training, but they are a tool of law enforcement, to fight crime, put down violence, restore order, etc.

But all would have to consent to membership. If nations want to opt out, they can. Yet then maybe the New UN would then need its own military, just in case. It could also help with maintaining order within the New UN member states.

This New UN likely would have to exclude a lot of current nations: those with dictators, communism, theocracy, oppression. To join they would have to be like and have governments and economies like the US or Europe, Japan, etc. And freedoms, etc.

So no Irans, Russias, Chinas, North Koreas, Saudi Arabias, etc. Heck, maybe we would have to expel places like Texas, too, LOL.

@JoyfulSilence being that the US economy is at the top of the spectrum, a merger like the one you describe will likely result in the quality of life going down and taxes going up.

There are also long going rivalries to consider. It would be difficult to get the whole world to believe in the same version of freedom.