>>106022286 (OP)First, you need to cure yourself from centuries of brainwashing. Capitalism is a big fat lie. The wealth of nations is decided by a few families who run the whole thing.
Come back to this post when you've figured that out, because spoon-feeding it to you it's just too much work.
The Empire moves east to west (like the sun). If you look back at history, you will notice this. The major superpower that effectively rules the Earth has a seat in one nation that changes over time, east to west. Why? Figure it out. Again, it's to much work to spoon-feed you.
The US has been the seat of the empire for the last century or so. It's not that "the west" fell back at technology. The competition and struggle that supposedly fuels capitalism is a big fat lie.
The Empire simply moved seats. It will now exert its power from Asia. Why? Because it feeds on the real wealth of the nation it's seated on. It sucked the US dry, and moved on. Before that, it sucked Europe dry. Now it needs to feed on Asia, a land that wasn't the seat of the Empire since the Mongol or perhaps even earlier Persian empires. It's cyclical. The empire isnโt loyal to geography, ideology, or people. Itโs loyal only to power and extraction. Once a region is fully utilized. Its labor, its natural resources, its population's energy, the imperial machinery relocates to fresher ground.