Re your concerns about US global domination

Come on now, enough with the hyperbole. The US has been a superpower for 60 years, the beginning of which was marked with rebuilding Europe and Japan insead of enjoying the spoils of war, then turned to creating international organizations like NATO and the UN as a response to Soviet expansion, and then worked to clean up hotspots like Yugoslavia, Kuwait, and Bosnia.

I can't say I approve every US action in that span of time (particularly in South America and Southeast Asia), but the basis of comparison is the Europeans. This is a group of people who, when they had the power to, raped and pillaged the rest of the planet for 500 years, before just about destroying themselves in two wars. Now suddenly they're the moral compass for the rest of the planet?

>>13

Not to belabor the point, but I think that perhaps you just didn't have the opportunity to read the discussion you're replying to. My replies are a continuous thread criticizing the statement made in >>4:

>The US is not only a superpower, but the only superpower these days.

tl;dr? follow the >'s all the way back pls.

But here's a reply to the issues you raise in your misdirected reply:

>your definition of superpower

I don't have one. I don't believe in the concept. Any theoretical point wherein a country crosses over from national power to regional power to superpower is simply arbitrary, and presumes a naive-reductionist continuity of focus which is not available in anything but the most totalitarian nations. A country can't even hypothetically be a superpower without a superfocus, just like neither Inspector Clousseau from the Pink Panther movies, or Maxell Smart from the Get Smart TV series could be considered "excellent investigators" by any rational person. While they sometimes get things done, they do it accidentally and through coincidence, just like nations run by electoral committees stand no possibility of setting a delineable course or objective for anything but the extreme short-run. This is a good thing because some nations possess too much hypothetical capacity, so the extreme wastefulness of bureaucracy in democratic governance is an ideal method of keeping them from really fucking things up.