haxxiy on 01 November 2018
| Salnax said: People have been saying this at least since the 80's, but so far, Japan, China, India, Russia, and the European Union keep on failing to deliver. |
The European Union and China have larger economies than the US, though, and India will join them in less than 20 - 30 years.
The thing is, inertia goes a long way. There's still plenty of accumulated prestige and wealth in the US and that isn't disappearing. See, even nowadays, many decades after the end of the British Empire, see how powerful the UK still is culturally and diplomatically. Or the prestige of French as an international language coming all the way from the 19th century and before.
