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You’re using the wrong verb tense here. All of that used to be true, but a lot of the current chaos and destruction goes toward reducing this power.
We painted ourselves into a corner here throwing away advantages left and right thinking we’ll always be able to influence or economically coerce other countries, but now we seem to be throwing that away as well, just to be jackasses