Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by coldtea 495 days ago
>From a position of world-wide dominance and respect

It already had very low respect (except by paid hacks and client states) and declining world-wide dominance for decades. And the churn rate for those very dissaponting results, reflected in public debt, was huge.

And that's assuming a nation having "world-wide dominance" is a good thing to begin with.

1 comments

i agree