Reply #15: I don't think there really is much of a solution [View All]

Countries rise, and then they fal.

When countries are young, their people are often hungry and ambitious. Over time, people get fat and lazy. It's just pretty natural.

There's always someone else coming up behind you who's hungry and ambitious and if they have the population, natural resources, education, then they'll pass you unless you want to try to destroy them before they reach that point.

The US has had quite a run as the world's dominant power, but with five times our population and a people who seem to be at least as ambitious as ours, it doesn't seem hard to understand that they will eventually overtake us.

We've had an American century. Thre's probably a Chinese century coming. Hopefuly they'll be responsible with the power they earn.