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Lief
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« on: December 05, 2010, 08:58:04 AM » |
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America will be something like a third world banana republic, firmly controlled by an oligarchy of corporate business interests. Election participation rates will have fallen to even more pathetically low levels, as the impoverished masses of Americans lose all hope in their paper democratic system. While we'll still be one of the most powerful countries in the world, economically and militarily, this will be more a function of our size and ruthless exploitation of resources and people. We will have only a small amount of our current diplomatic influence, as a handful of right-wing dictatorships around the world, eager to sell us natural resources in exchange for military and financial support of their brutal regimes, rally around our dying empire.
Not sure what'll happen with the EU. It could still exist; it could not. It could have become more centralized and powerful, or the opposite could happen. A strong possibility is that western European countries at the periphery (like Britain) decided to leave, resulting in a more democratic and less nasty realization of the old German idea of the Mitteleuropäische Zollverein.
Brazil will develop into a superpower, and for the first time in the history of the world, South America will become an international power center. China will have the strongest economy in the world. India will have squandered its potential; it will still be influential and richer than now, but eclipsed by other powers.
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