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<blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5547780" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>When WWII ended the U.S. was the only industrial power that was intact. There was a meeting in 1944, called the Bretton Woods Agreement, of the Western allies that established the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency. The U.S. Navy kept shipping lanes open and free from piracy. That was the beginning of the global trade system we have today. Of course we developed nukes too. All that made us a superpower with only the Soviet Union as a serious rival. Now that system is falling apart. Other countries don't want to be dictated to. If we were the global monster you portray us to be we'd act just like Russia and bully them into keeping the status quo. Even invade them. We were never about putting our boots on others necks. We were about trade, building markets. And keeping the world free from communism. Now the world is retreating into regional markets, not global. The U.S. is no longer willing to be the world's policeman and they don't want us to be either. So expect more and more invasions as the bigger countries want to dominate their neighbors. Maybe someday you'll realize that when the U.S. was keeping the peace, willing to expend blood and treasure, that it was a hell of a lot better than what we will be experiencing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vantexan, post: 5547780, member: 24302"] When WWII ended the U.S. was the only industrial power that was intact. There was a meeting in 1944, called the Bretton Woods Agreement, of the Western allies that established the U.S. Dollar as the world's reserve currency. The U.S. Navy kept shipping lanes open and free from piracy. That was the beginning of the global trade system we have today. Of course we developed nukes too. All that made us a superpower with only the Soviet Union as a serious rival. Now that system is falling apart. Other countries don't want to be dictated to. If we were the global monster you portray us to be we'd act just like Russia and bully them into keeping the status quo. Even invade them. We were never about putting our boots on others necks. We were about trade, building markets. And keeping the world free from communism. Now the world is retreating into regional markets, not global. The U.S. is no longer willing to be the world's policeman and they don't want us to be either. So expect more and more invasions as the bigger countries want to dominate their neighbors. Maybe someday you'll realize that when the U.S. was keeping the peace, willing to expend blood and treasure, that it was a hell of a lot better than what we will be experiencing. [/QUOTE]
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