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by ofcrookedtimber 2211 days ago
The issue of "What comes after US hegemony?" should trouble you even more.

I can envision a lot of scenarios that are worse than now.

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What troubles me more is the idea that you think there needs or has to be some sort of hegemony in the first place. I personally know of scenarios that is already far worse in the world today because of this idea of someone having to uphold some sort of hegemony.
Power vacuums are a very dangerous thing. This is how ISIS/ISIL came to power after all...
Time to start learning Chinese?
How do you say 'how do I keep my internal organs AND my religion' in mandarin?