It's cyclical. You have to see the full historical picture .
@™BlackPearl The Empress™ is correct.
Different empires come and go and this is just Europe's time. And the reason the US has these stupid bases everywhere is because white people are paranoid that somebody else is going to get an advantage. But they can't stop it anymore than the Ottomans could stop it by having bases everywhere or the Mongols could stop it by having bases everywhere or the Abbasid dynasties could stop it, or even the Egyptians as blackpearl mentioned.
And there's nothing particularly special about the technology that the white people created, and simply due to the law of large numbers somebody will develop something better. For example look how shook they were once they were proud of their AI technology only for China to come up with deep seek at 1/10 of the price and 50% better performance.
Then pay special attention to what she said about time. Cacs have only been ascendant for about 500 years. That's absolutely nothing on geological time or in the span of epochs. I mean the Moors had a grip on Europe for 750 years And they thought they're fancy technology, medicine, and gunpowder weaponry would save them. Or the Persians holding 1,100 years due to metallurgy as advancements. Even the Mongols thought they had a technological advancement because of how they used their horses relative to everyone else but they stopped at 700 years.
