The ball is in everybody's court

[Hosakawa Tito]

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Considering the current global political climate, and the isolationist feelings of many of the people I talk to, I can foresee this scenario possibly becoming reality.

[GoreBag]

Which scenario? Multiple ones are mentioned.

[Cronos Impera]

Bad article. A poor excuse to say that a world without American capital would implode.
At the height of the Cold War the world was relatively stable as neither the Soviet Union, nor the Western Powers held an upper advantage.There was no serious jihad in Palestine nor any serious global terrorist threat. Nuclear supplies ware kept safe......untill December 1989 when all of that ended.And America became the sole dominant power and things went bad (American buisness men began to buy everything from man-power to oilfields and banks, bad Hollywood propaganda movies invaded every TV station in the world, pocket missionaries spread across the world trying to extend the Bible Belt across the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and that it is supposedly a good thing).
That's why many people dislike America, because it buys everything that is worth buying and enstablishes global momopolies ( like Microsoft, McDonalds...) and pays the client states like slaves. Is that freedom? No.

So American economics goes like this..... You search for inteligent working-people abroad, you buy them, give them citizenship and propaganda => off-course he'll be over-joyed and...become a Texan. You than earn more money to buy more people and more enterprises untill you are rich and other countries are poor. You than give aid to those countries just so they would respect you more and the process continues untill you have drained that country of it's elite. America is 90% immigrants and 10% Texan. And still your country is not the wealthiest one on the planet.
America has one other asset (besides Texas, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Manowar) and that is an endless supply of raw materials unexploited 'till the 18th century. Should those resources be exhausted the black hole will explode and global hegemony will fall into the hands of the new Evil Empire (The Penguin Republic of Antartica) where underwater scuba cowboys heard seals and people play baseball with penguins.

[Strike For The South]

What happens to Texas?

[Cronos Impera]

Well, fewer people means fewer proprieties which means more freedom. If people start leaving America than you could take more land and live like a cowboy (I wish I had more land and herd a bunch of sheep up the mountain slopes). If the same thing happens in Texas and Romania I could become a sheepherder and you a cowboy.

[Hosakawa Tito]

Which scenario? Multiple ones are mentioned.


a world in which problems fester and the buck is endlessly passed, until problems explode.