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what country will take over the world and when?
There has been a lot of talk on who's gonna take over the world, most people think it's China or America. I'll just pretend America took over what will happen: the americen goverment takes over and everyone, even American citizens are treated like shit, or will it be like the Hunger Games (don't soil catching fire I'm reading it!) Where America is the capitol and everyone in America is rich as fuck, while other countries gotta give to them. I personally think America is going to take over, we've got the strongest military, already extremely wealthy, already has complete control over the Midwest. But the question is: when?
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Hi. I think I know what you mean. The 'talk' I believe YOU are talking about does not refer to some sort of hostile military invasion or occupation. The talk is that global economic 'power' will tend to slip (slowly) away from the USA to an emerging 'new' country. China with it's unique mixture of a free market economy and communist ideolgy does indeed look 'the country most likely' to take up the role. As an example, an essential material in highly energy efficient electrical systems is all under the soil of China. The west want loads of it, China can control the market price...or even limit how much they are willing to sell. The country is 'industrialising' on a massive scale. Exporting by the shipload and not really needing to buy a lot in from the west. To sum it up, China's economy is strong and healthy showing more signs of growth than the USA (where things are in decline...not falling off the edge of a cliff...it's not a violent process). Historically nations have their economic 'day in the sun' where they undoubtedly hold the global trade and financial whip-hand. (Once it was the UK where I live. The British Empire was the world's major economic player, with a strong home economy and many overseas business interests. The Pound Sterling was 'boss'). The US Dollar has been the definitive currency of choice for quite a while now. It will, based on past evidence have to hand over the mantle, and we might have a strong bet it will be to China. Slowly, bit by bit. We are NOT taliking wars, invasions, nuclear strike capability, terrorism or riots in the streets. Just a change in who the world consider 'the banker'. You're not about to find the Red Army storming up the beaches and invading your home! OK?
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The only place where there is a lot of talk about who will 'take over the world' is in the States. It's a uniquely American fantasy. Those conspiracy theories and fantasies don't take root anywhere else on the Globe, because most other places on the Globe have a much more rational understanding of the many nations and people that exist, and the level of power each nation actually has in the world.
Neither the States, nor China, have anything even remotely close to the ability to take over the world. Despite the fact both countries are large and influential, neither has the man power or the money to do so, and neither is likely to get in anything like the near future.
Look at the States seriously for a moment: The US doesn't even have the money or manpower to control the small, improvised desert countries it's gone to war with in the Middle East in the last 20 years. Billions of dollars later, and the US still can't put down rebellions, get the local armies on their feet, or help with basic infrastructure. US armies are leaving the Middle East more or less how they found it: At the mercy of a bunch of infighting religious extremists.
If the world was going to be taken over, I doubt the threat would come from government. The super-wealthy are in a far better position to wrest control than any single government on the planet, but even that would require more money and more coordination from hundreds of very different people and interests then is likely to take place.
So When? Not in your lifetime, and probably not in your grandchildren's. Something would need to change, and change drastically, to give one nation the power and means to control all others, and there is nothing on the horizon that looks like it could cause that change. The world is just far more complex and diverse than you realize. There are more people, and more ways of living that an individual can even comprehend. Controlling all those people through force isn't likely.
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