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The fall of nations over history discussion.
The Greeks, the Spanish, the Brits, the Portuguese and the Romans were in times past the most powerful nations on earth. All of them fell to one degree or another from a world dominating power to where they stand today.
It seems the closest fall to what is happening to the USA was the Roman Empire. Endless wars, high taxes trying to change cultures within its power sphere, corruption and graft all added up to the Roman Empire falling to pieces over a couple of centuries. The died a death of a thousand cuts.
Is there a common denominator for a nations fall from great power to just another average Joe nation on the globe?
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A lot of similarities:
https://youtu.be/Z_hNMcayu2A
It's more than a repeat in History, but there are similarities of human nature at play. The powers to be need to get us through the bottleneck of hydro-carbon age to the new renewable energy age and used a lot of the old ways as you have described to accomplish it with inept greedy leaders in Congress and The White House to seek to end our dominance with Nations states with the petrol dollar.
They have done a good job of it. Get ready for the stable-crypto coins with a United One World Reserve bank to equalize out the wealth to all peoples under The auspices of The United Nations. We Americans will not be destroyed, but just bankrupt by our own government's stupidity and made to do out with much less.
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Serf, I whole heartdly agree. The US dollar will not be the world reserve currency much longer. We broke every promise our nation made to the world in gaining the Dollar as world reserve currency. We are creating dollars out of ones and zeros that nobody is buying, it is Fiat money, devaluing it by leaps and bounds. Can you say Communist China Yen crypto dollars?
Yep, the pound sterling was the world currency not all that far back. My prediction is the Chinese Yuan in less than 20 years.