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The world without the US
simple question. i hope the mods won't mind if i try to spark some discussion before i infuse a bit of my own thought.
what would the world be like without the US?
so we're more focused in the discussion, i'd like to limit it to "how the world would be different if there were no US (or a version of the US that is essentially militarily, economically, culturally inert) since the end of world war II?"
Hitler is defeated, Japanese expansion is rebutted... yet the world is left without the United State's fingerprints since then...
would the world be better off? worse? unaffected?
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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