[lbo-talk] the CFR worries about decline

Matthias Wasser matthias.wasser at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 14:18:56 PDT 2010


I was about to state that US GDP as a percentage of the world has been declining, but apparently it hasn't, at least in the past few decades (though it remains below its postwar peak.) I'm too lazy to check whether this would hold if the USSR hadn't folded.

America has rivals growing much faster than it, but in 1945 it had enemies that were. Militarily it seems equally true that no-one is openly challenging the American position and that America can't even pacify puny little countries anymore. There seems to be an unusually strong home team advantage in contemporary warfare.



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