how much is america to blame for the state of the world?  i was reading various theories for why europe surged ahead of china in technology/culture since the renaissance.  one hypothesis is that europe had more states competing against one another. if we apply that framework to the current day, i wonder how much of europe's stagnation is due to america becoming a superpower after ww2. if america stopped being the world police, maybe european states like the uk, france, germany, etc. would have to try harder to compete with each other, the us, and the world, and they simply wouldn't be able to relax and let gay race communism take over themselves. tl;dr maybe multipolarity could fix europe
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