Decline and fall of the US.

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starcraft said:

There is one major difference between the USA and every other empire in history.

If the USA goes under it will take the entire world with it in ways we cannot even contemplate.

There is a novel series written by an Australian author.  They give a highly dramatized account of what would happen if most of America was annihilated (by a sci-fi event in this case).  Nonetheless, it is a seemingly realistic view of just how badly Europe, China, India/Pakistan and the Middle East would go to pieces if the USA's influence was rapidly and dramatically diminished.

The series two books are "Without Warning- America is gone" and "After America."

I dont really think that's the case, since Spain, the empires are considered for the entire world( Spain, France, U.K., EE.UU), in many cases, when an empire ends, the rest of the world start growing and a new empire is born:

Spain fell after many internal problems (They even exist today, Barcelona wants to be apart from Madrid and start a new state).

France and later U.K. sort of controlled the whole world together, but they fell in the s.XX because of germany, while they were in war, many latinamerican countries and the USA itself got stronger and a new power was born.

After the USA, i would call China, people think that without the USA, China wont survive, but it may be actually the opposite, China buys about 20% of the USA debt, Japan buys like 16%, Korea, etc, etc.

They buy that debt, cause they want a "strong dollar" so they could keep having certain advantage to their economies in a world wide basis and grow faster, but they also trade with themselves and China is about to become the top country for Latinamerica in commercial relationships, it is actually for Brasil, Argentina, Chile, and many more countries.

If those East-Asia-countries wanted to, they could stop their "Buy Dollar" policies and crash the whole financial system, but no one wants that(cause they would grow at a slower rate), that's is why Obama went first to China to tell them "buy our debt", however, it is the USA the one that needs to spend better the money they have.