In the 20th century America succeeded because we stood back and let Europe and Asia do crazy stupid stuff, and then we mostly avoided doing that stuff. Then the 21st century came around, and for some reason we decided to start doing our own crazy stupid stuff.
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The US didn't do crazy stupid stuff in the 20th C, apart from imposing a high risk of global thermonuclear war on the whole world, through relentless threats of nuclear first strikes. Arguably, we survived only by luck.https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704 …
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