What was the problem with a multipolar world?
Why did Americans find sharing power with others to be impossible?
61-69
Great powers fall into a depressive malaise when they start to deflate and shrink.
Remember what it was like for Britain losing her Empire.
Or consider the demise of the Roman Empire or any other.
The USA is still among the wealthiest and most powerful countries,
but with China shrinking and India about to become the most populous,
there will probably be tectonic plate shifts in world economics over the next few decades.
The USA's influence depends entirely on how much it is willing to engage with other countries.
Remember what it was like for Britain losing her Empire.
Or consider the demise of the Roman Empire or any other.
The USA is still among the wealthiest and most powerful countries,
but with China shrinking and India about to become the most populous,
there will probably be tectonic plate shifts in world economics over the next few decades.
The USA's influence depends entirely on how much it is willing to engage with other countries.
scrood · 31-35
Because Soviets don't play nicely with others. Previously Britain was the only superpower, then Spain was before them. After fake collapse of the USSR and infiltration of the West, USA is only superpower. Multipolar system led to tangle of alliances which exploded in Balkans powder keg at Sarajevo 1914 and in Poland 1939. The problem with a balance of power is that it tends to become unbalanced and grievances can't be resolved. NATO didn't take military action UNTIL THE FALL of the Soviet empire, military action in the Balkans, and NATO promised never to expand eastward, yet now entertains Ukrainian membership. The only peace will be BOTH Ukraine and Russia join NATO, perhaps now a very reduced in size Ukrainian state once Russia absorbs its lost provinces
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@scrood China is who you are actually opposing by weakening Russia. Do they not play nice, too?
Smoothsailing121 · 31-35, M
@Roundandroundwego also fuck the chinease would love to kill as meany as possible
scrood · 31-35
@Roundandroundwego Bill Clinton laughed at President Putin when he inquired about Russian membership in NATO, yet months after 9/11 China ascended to WTO membership? And who was the first world leader to call President Bush on 9/11? President Putin
The Chinese now own American government and that is part of why the Russia collusion hoax is ongoing since about 2012, the Chinese want Siberia and its farmland and gas and oil and timber, and to eject Russia from the East. Russia moved troops from the East to Ukraine war
The Chinese now own American government and that is part of why the Russia collusion hoax is ongoing since about 2012, the Chinese want Siberia and its farmland and gas and oil and timber, and to eject Russia from the East. Russia moved troops from the East to Ukraine war
PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M
This is how empires work.
Might makes right.
Might makes right.
Smoothsailing121 · 31-35, M
Roundandroundwego · 61-69
@Smoothsailing121 I agree. We can't oppose America and survive. USA will end everything to stop others from being free of it.