Reply #41: What makes you think that

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"Whoever replaces America in that role will hardly be benevolent."?

Don't underestimate the European Union. It's a whole new post-nation-state model. Their starting point was to create relationships within Europe that would make future European wars impossible. Now, extend that model, as Europe is now doing to larger and larger spheres, and you enter a viable world without war, which is the motor of free-market capitalism.

The Neanderthal, mere nation-state, US is freaked out by this latest human evolution that will overwhelm it's backward social/economic model. Remember how homo sapiens overwhelmed homo neanderthalensis? Homo eurounionensis is about to blow homo murcanassholensis out of the water. LOL!