I’m really worried about the state of the US despite being a white male who was I’ll coast right through it. I’ll also accept “I don’t” and “very poorly” as answers

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    6 months ago

    superpowers don’t directly fight each other

    Yeah, this one shouldn’t be underestimated. The world powers, not just superpowers, just don’t have much of an appetite for head-to-head war anymore. Most wars are civil wars with the occasional proxy war thrown in. World War I killed 17 million, World War II killed 80 million. We just don’t have wars at that size anymore. For that matter, there’s a generous smattering of multi-million death wars through the 19th and 20th centuries, both civil and between nations. But as you get to the 21st century, that just doesn’t really happen anymore.