Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?
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By century’s end, the US will be like Russia is now, a dying economic backwater, but still semi-relevant because of our nuclear arsenal. China will have replaced us as the dominant world power, and the world will descend into tyranny.
President Trump is trying to make that happen. Guess what? Democrats hate him for it!
President Trump is going about it the wrong way. He's cosying up to dictators and alienating allies. That's why people oppose his foreign policies.
By century’s end, the US will be like Russia is now, a dying economic backwater, but still semi-relevant because of our nuclear arsenal. China will have replaced us as the dominant world power, and the world will descend into tyranny.
Allies?
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?
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Canada for one. About your staunchest ally.
Unless you figure the US has no allies, you stand alone.
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?
Feel free to explain your choice if you want.
Canada does not like us! They’re pissed because we have a democracy and elected someone they disapprove of.
Alright. We'll just let that dumb statement lay on the table in all it's glory.
I doubt you know the half of it
America's High-Tech STEM Crisis
Note the majority of foreign students in US universities are from China, followed by India
Why? Don't you want us to be strong?
Will the United States retain it's status as the world's superpower for the foreseeable future?
Feel free to explain your choice if you want.
By century's end? It's more imminent than that. The process is unstoppable. Just a generation ago the world was agog at the US making diplomatic overtures to a bound-up insular China still trying to climb out of 'developing' status and today Trump is trying to negotiate a trade agreement with them. The American dominance that began after WW2 will be the shortest-lived hegemony in history.
I was thinking more in terms of America’s decline, than China’s rise per se. Third world immigration will turn our economy to **** by mid-century, but we’ll still have some residual international pull for a few decades thereafter.
Unless something very drastic happens to alter the economic and military trajectories of the world's first tier powers, the USA has about another decade as an effective monopolar military and economic superpower. Then the world will slip back into a multipolar superpower situation with China and perhaps India emerging as effective economic rivals and regional superpowers. Russia will remain a very well armed but economically hamstrung power unless it can build alliances and markets in Eurasia and drive a wedge between Europe and North America.
The USA's monopolar, superpower position today is primarily based on economic and military power formerly supported by a strong network of alliances and dependencies. The US economy is changing for the worse and that degradation will eventually undermine your out of control military spending and thus your military hegemony. The economic challenges facing the USA are dwindling productive capacity, surplus labour pools which will grow worse as AI mediated automation and globalisation of production displaces more and more workers. Also you are losing your innovation and engineering primacy to places like India, Israel, Europe and China so out innovating your rivals will soon no longer be a realistic option. Abuse of the US dominated international financial system for political purposes such as sanctioning rivals and restraining trade is causing other nations to develop rival international financial systems which will be more resistant to US interference, so your financial might is also beginning to wane while your rivals adapt and wax in strength and independence.
This all means that the US will face real crises of economy, debt, employment and political isolation soon and these crises will rapidly erode liberties, democracy and social peace in America. This is the real threat to Americans. Your government and the private sector are conducting unprecedented surveillance on you. You police are being militarised and mercenary/Private Military Companies are conducting surveillance and suppression programmes on. American dissidents in America itself now. Your military is focusing on fighting in urban environments and mega-cities. Your Governments are becoming less tolerant of dissent and more prone to using draconian measures in the pursuit of maintaining control and secrecy. The greatest threat to America short of a thermonuclear attack or a crippling cyber attack is a domestic one, not a foreign one. Your have already crept into an elite-controlled panopticon ruled by militarists, some remaining industrialists, commercial interests, energy conglomerates, media and social-media conglomerates and extremely powerful private financial networks. 6.4 million Americans are already under some degree of penal supervision right now from incarceration to probation.
The next step will be an authoritarian police-state backed up by a significant fraction of a professional and permanent/standing military and a myriad of satellite private security, surveillance and mercenary companies which have been operating for the most part abroad but are now coming home to roost and are increasingly operating openly inside America.
Cheers?
Evilroddy.
Yes, Americans are being denied admissions into American universities on behalf of students from our economic and increasingly military adversaries - underwritten by the Federal Government.
If this were WW2, the new progressive-fascist Democratic Party would send all information, material and scientists about the atom bomb to Germany and Japan, stopping our own program.
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