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America Is Dead; Long Live America
The rug is being pulled.
It’s been a long six years, but finally, the Nazis are no more, and the world war is over. Europe lies in tatters, its once great empires exhausted and decimated. Africa and the Middle East, pillaged of their resources to fuel these war machines, are cracking under exploitation. Asia lies broken, with great empires fallen, new borders drawn, and fledgling nations struggling to set root. The only nation to come out of this relatively unscathed is the US. Its industrial powerhouse, untouched by bombs and bolstered by the war effort, is now the strongest on the planet. Its military is now one of the largest and best-equipped ever. With the world being weak and available, this was America’s chance to ascend from a rag-tag, isolated colony to the defacto global power, and they seized the opportunity with both hands. The dollar was made the global currency through brute force, enabling them to bend and twist any nation to their whim. By further bolstering their military, they came to dominate NATO, placing them as the defacto world police, able to bully and coerce any country on Earth. This thinly veiled global empire is the foundation of modern America. For better or worse, it has enabled its meteoric prosperity over the past 80 years. And, in just a few months, Trump has torn it all down, with America’s empire now being set to fall.
