| spurgeonryan said: Can you stop the ineitable from happening? Doesn't North Korea have a few now? How would you like to do this? Don't say with the help of the U.S. I think I remember according to you and some others we have too much power. I would like to see how the world would have turned out between 1900 and 2012 without AMERICA. |
While it would be hard to work this out, due to the fact that America has been heavily involved in most international relations since, well, its inception (and before, the politics of imperial Europe during the 16 and 1700s were about dominating the Americas), and especially since the dawn of the 20th century. But we can look at past events, and say "what if America wasn't there", and not look at the chain of events before and after.
- I mean, if it wasn't for the USA, would all of Europe be under the Soviet Union, now?
- Would the allies have won WWII, or WWI?
- The birth of America was also the birth of the natural law being respected by Governments... would Europeans ever have democracy as we see it today, without the USA?
- After WWII, the USA rebuilt Germany and Japan, and rewrote their institutions... using this, both Germany and Japan went on to become the richest countries in their regions, and the 2nd and 3rd wealthiest countries in the world, until recent times. (I think this says alot about the American model of politics and economics - also look at South Korea and 1980s UK for the success of countries that copy the American model.)
- Would the British Empire have seen decline? Maybe, but it would have lasted a while longer.
Obviously, Cold War USA did a lot of bad, including making modern Iran. But the world would just be a COMPLETELY different place. This isn't some lowly African nation, we're talking about what would have happened without one of the most influential countries in the history of the world.
