The World Can Move On Without The United States.
"The world can move on without the United States.
100 years ago the British Empire dominated global commerce, commanding more than 20% of the world's wealth. Many believed its sun would never set.
200 years ago, France bestrode Europe's stage, its armies feared, its culture envied. Napoleon declared himself immortal.
400 years ago, the Spanish crown reigned from Manila to Mexico, its treasure fleets groaning with silver and silk. The kings thought their glory would last eternal.
Each empire proclaimed itself indispensable. Each was ultimately eclipsed.
Power wanes, influence migrates, and legitimacy dies the moment it's assumed rather than earned. Should America forfeit the world's respect, it will discover what every fallen empire learned too late:
The world moves on. Always."
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I recently found this on social media. It's a tweet on X attributed to China's President Xi Jinping, but even though it has a blue check to verify its authenticity, my research indicates neither the president nor his top staff actually have accounts on X. I have no way to know for sure, but regardless, what the tweet says is all that matters. It gives examples of how past empires are just that: past. And no one misses them.
As the United States stumbles and stalls, horribly divided from within and threatened from both within and without, it might be wise to compare our situation today with the situations previous empires faced before they fell. There are frightening similarities, the top one possibly being that we think we're too big and powerful to fail.
History teaches us that as the wheel of time turns round, eventually one nation drops and a new one rises to the top.
And the world moves on. Always.
