most empires before they collapse go through a cycle of rampant degeneracy to authoritarian resurgence to attempt to restore dignity to military adventurism resulting in quagmire in unwinnable wars to collapse to a diminished standing in the world but a return to somewhat normalcy. in our case the chinese are going to be the enemy that we hurl ourselves at who knocks us down a peg. but on the bright side once we no longer have to be the world's police maybe we can finally fix domestic issues.
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