2019-07-18 at 4:28 AM UTC
Gas prices and electronics would go up slightly, and most of the first world would criticize us for not intervening in "gross human rights violations" yet will do nothing themselves, and eventually things would calm back down and we'd have a slightly more difficult time finding lawyers
2019-07-18 at 4:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by Sophie
The world would be a better place.
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2019-07-18 at 5:07 AM UTC
Yeah, how much oil do we burn in all that military hoo hah?
2019-07-18 at 6:05 AM UTC
aldra
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short-term the world economy would implode, long-term is impossible to predict like pulling someone's spine out and guessing how they'll land.
military force, or more specifically the threat of imminent military force is a cornerstone of US hegemony; without it the others (global finance, control over major shipping lanes etc.) would crumble (they already are to a degree). All of these institutions are designed to benefit the empire but also to be integral to the way the world currently operates so they can't simply be discarded. Russia and China are creating multilateral alternatives (Russia and China already have alternatives to SWIFT and have built BRICS funds specifically to compete with the IMF), but capacity is low, not all requirements are answered for and there's no way it'd be a smooth transition if other countries were forced to cut over without warning.
which is another thing - if the US were forced to withdraw all of their foreign-stationed military, would Russia and China also have diminished economic and military power? what of Europe? the more powerful players still standing, the quicker the system would stabilise. if only one or two we'd likely see the same thing as the US, how it became sole hegemon after WWII by virtue of being the only industrial country that was largely untouched by the war. if none, it'd take much longer and much more suffering.
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2019-07-18 at 6:23 AM UTC
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Originally posted by aldra
if only one or two we'd likely see the same thing as the US, how it became sole hegemon after WWII by virtue of being the only industrial country that was largely untouched by the war. if none, it'd take much longer and much more suffering.
Sounds like a good plan to me. Bring on WWIII. 1950's America was probably the most prosperous place and time in all of history.
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2019-07-18 at 7:40 AM UTC
The NWO would collapse overnight, the middle east and China would team up to form a team against the west (Russia would probably join along too), there would be a world war for control over the planet etc etc
Maybe 9/11 and the middle eastern wars were inside jobs afterall but ultimately for the good of Americans and the rest of the world.
2019-07-18 at 3:52 PM UTC
rebuilding projects after the war are also pretty profitable, but only for the companies doing the rebuilding. the taxpayer gets fuck all.
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