Post by @Lysergid

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@reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

The cracks are showing. The US empire is in decay. What will the world look like once it’s no longer able to bully everyone? What do we have to look forward to both inside and outside the imperial core?

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@Lysergid@lemmy.ml on lemmy.ml Open parent

We just gonna have other bully. That’s how power vacuums works

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@Andrzej3K@hexbear.net on hexbear.net Open parent

A global hegemon on the scale of the British and then US empire is kind of a blip historically though — it’s not obvious that another state will continue in the same role

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Lysergid in !asklemmy

@Lysergid@lemmy.ml · Dec 15

There were many empires throughout the history. Of course there were very few at the scale of your examples. We didn’t had internet or ability to fly and sail bunch of tanks across thousands of kilometers within days. But history shows that intend was always there

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