>>513091076
i always thought what's happening right now is in broad terms more similar to the Spanish-England hegemonic shift: the rich Spanish outsourced their industry to England, who then went on to body-slam the world after drop-kicking the Spanish. only this time it's more like scientists at labs instead of back-breaking laborers at workhouses. also, the main specific issues are extremely similar to the ones that plagued the italian merchant republics.
because: one, the ruling classes of Globohomo is also an insular, degenerate clique of plutocrats who have bled out resources trying to unify a greater homeland, unifying their rivals against them in the process; two, they sank all their bets on the status quo continuing forever; three, neglected technological investments for their armed forces; four, technology has opened up other trading routes; etc, etc.
also
>pic
hey, i can see the plant a lot of my classmates went on to work at from here
