Are You Ready For The Decline?

[Hijo de luna]

I can't imagine a realistic scenario in which the US could collapse. It would take a US-China war. The nukes would definitely come out.

 

[datnigDASTARDLY]

Uh... If you think total anarchy is going to happen you gone be waiting a long time OP.

That kind of collapse, apart from nuclear war just isn't possible nowadays.

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

I find it funny HOW everyone believes things will come crashing down. There’s no doubt it’ll end, just as sure as your life will so do governments and kingdoms. How people imagine things to go is what disturbs me. Always ideas of violence...

If you scared go to church breh, or get in the kitchen, we gon need people to feed the Warriors

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Because most human beings suck

just afraid, people been fed images of violence and bleek horrifying terrorising ideas of what the future is or what it will be. and then the people that just actually act that out too...

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

If you scared go to church breh, or get in the kitchen, we gon need people to feed the Warriors

We? Warriors?

 

[Fade Runner 2049]

We? Warriors?

 

[Soundwave]

 

[Mike Nasty]

But America has only been an empire since 1945. Unless you consider it a continuation of the British empire, which basically ended with WWII and was succeeded by the US.

Exactly, these clips act like the US was a super power from the day of its inception.

"Americas 200 year reign is coming to an end"

 

[intruder]

The Age of Commerce (Slave trade)

Slave trade is part of the age of conquest.

The age of commerce would have been in it's infancy during slavery itself but after slave trade officially ended. Thats when they reaped all the benefits of free labor from slaves to build up the country. But Americans age of commerce didn't really BOOM globally until post WW2 when they were the only country with military might that didn't have its industries bombed into rubble.

That's when Europeans really started to import a lot of American products and America became the force that it became in the global market selling food and other products to European and other nations. They then pretty much inherited all of the British and French conquests that Britain itself couldn't sustain anymore in the middle East and northern africa starting with the Brit's Suez canal snafu to Vietnam

 

[Dad]

Babylon has fallen!

 

[MaxPain]

Slave trade is part of the age of conquest.

The age of commerce would have been in it's infancy during slavery itself but after slave trade officially ended. Thats when they reaped all the benefits of free labor from slaves to build up the country. But Americans age of commerce didn't really BOOM globally until post WW2 when they were the only country with military might that didn't have its industries bombed into rubble.

That's when Europeans really started to import a lot of American products and America became the force that it became in the global market selling food and other products to European and other nations. They then pretty much inherited all of the British and French conquests that Britain itself couldn't sustain anymore in the middle East and northern africa starting with the Suez canal snafu to Vietnam

True

 

[Konnan]

 

[Carlton Banks]

Charlottesville was definitely a sneak preview

 

[Entropy Fan]

because a empire collapsed doesn't mean it is going to descend into anarchy. The British Empire collapsed, French empire collapsed, German empire collapsed, Ottoman pure collapsed, etc. They just become less powerful or broke into smaller nation states. y'all nikkas are scary as fukk.

The British didn't collapse. They gave up most of their colonies but left puppets there. Ever hear of common wealth states?
And millions died all across the Ottoman empire especially in the Balkans.

America Is also far more divided then any of those euro empires u mentioned, and has 100x more guns and nut cases in it. Its gonna u be ugly as shyt

 

[intruder]

But America has only been an empire since 1945. Unless you consider it a continuation of the British empire, which basically ended with WWII and was succeeded by the US.

Exactly

When the Brits realized they were losing their grip on their empire they tried their best to get America to take over and continue the influence they had over the middle east and Africa. See Ghana in the 1950s when they declared their independence from the Brits and tried to buy from Russians instead.

However i would argue that America was a world power, tho not super power, since the early 1900s (say WW1 era). Americans were instrumental in the push to form the United Nations early in that century