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Originally Posted by Daldolma
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It's got nothing to do with thinking we're too big to fail. Every nation falls at some point. It would be ignorant to believe America is the exception.
We are, however, in pole position. We're a minimum of 20 years ahead of the rest of the world in military might, and our nominal GDP is nearly 300% of the 2nd-richest country -- China.
It's a joke to talk about any other nation "looking down" upon America -- let alone the rest of the world.
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Consider Rome. Rome started out as a small kingdom, expanded to a republic, became an empire, then collapsed. This took well over a thousand years, with the eastern empire lasting loner.
United States is what? 200 some years old?