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Originally Posted by ni'k
yep. it's a shift in the global balance of power. the 20th century was america as solo superpower, but now it's days of dominance are over. if you want to place a particular moment as official aknowledgement of this then it would be obama and hu jintao at the g20. if you want to place the blame it was when none of you claimed your constitutional right and killed george bush and overthrew his government. i don't really think short of a complete overthrow of the cia/fbi/nsa/dod/dhs/bush admin/assorted corporate leaders/lobbyists/neo con regime back before 9/11 (which would have most likely averted it) - which would need some sort of mass revolt and complete reorganisation of society - you could have averted the worst aspects of your downfall, like the poverty and human cost, and pumped those trillions lost on war into your own infastructure and health and paid off all that debt you owed to china, but your economy would still be fucked and you would still loose economic dominance. i'm getting into territory i'm not qualified to comment on, but i don't think a capitalist economy can function without this kind of war, or some sort of expenditure like it to get rid of the surplas. actually when reading back this part of the post i realise i still don't fully understand how neo liberal economics affects these things. it is my understanding tho that if the wars didnt happen some sort of equal expenditure would have been needed to keep the economy afloat, and since america's economy is so tied up in the military industrial complex it would have to involve the arms sector. but i am not sure on this stuff. i'm not sure if it was an inevitable economic structural fall from dominance or if it could have been averted by a different set of people in power and so comes closer to human failings. i don't know if it can be fully blamed on a born again fundamentalist former alcoholic baseball loving texan had the election rigged for him, definitly one of the worst poltiicians since hitler, and his cabal of former oil execs still in their pockets, hawks and general utter assholes, who absolutely fucked up everything they touched.
of course i'm not saying that china will be any better, it's just interesting that the balance of power has shifted.
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the u.s. is still the lapdog of the oppressors though because we have the best military. also their, the oppressors, empire is global and therefore no country has any real power. they're all just pawns, borders are more meaningless now than they ever were and nobody notices are seems to care. we should probably all be killing ourselves right now because the near future so bleak.