03-07-2017, 10:47 AM
(03-06-2017, 08:10 PM)Dill Wrote: After WWII, the US helped set up a system of treaties (NATO, SEATO etc.) and economic measures (World Bank, IMF) designed to prevent the world from ever falling back into the cataclysm of a world war. And so far that has worked, turning our former enemies into staunch allies.
I'm not so sure that's the actual reason. Global trade, and the adoption of capitalism in large measure even in places like China.
Maybe the US being the lone super power has a lot to do with it. But it was capitalism that brought down the wall and the USSR. Japan emerged into a major economic power, but still very much dependent on the US economy.
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