• demonsword@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Nah, it’s a failing empire. And there has never been an empire that fell before on humanity’s history that had a peaceful sunset

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Take a guess, is the US share of world GDP decreasing or increasing over time or roughly staying the same?

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        7 months ago

        That’s irrelevant. Is their sphere of influence growing or shrinking?

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          7 months ago

          How do you measure that? Because you can make an argument either way

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            7 months ago

            Not with numbers. And I’d like to see you argue it’s been growing.