Comment by lr1970
17 hours ago
> As the US declines, it’s not that a new leader will come in.
What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did not they step in where USA failed?
17 hours ago
> As the US declines, it’s not that a new leader will come in.
What's about EU? EU is bigger than the USA in total population and it has comparable if not larger total GDP. Why did not they step in where USA failed?
The US has about a 50% higher gdp, while having 30% less population. Not only this, but the EU can barely fund it's military obligations, let alone others. You frame it as the US failing, but I think it's more the US winning since they didn't really lose anything. I would argue they gained, since now the EU and it's competitors are having to spend money to solve things like this, and the EU and Asia are far closer to Ebola outbreaks and spreading due to population movements than the US is.
Why should the US fund some people in Africa who can't control the outbreak of a very easily contained disease, instead of it's own people.