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Fast Walker 52

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9. part of this is just natural demographics and geopolitical power shifts

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Fri Dec 9, 2016, 08:40 AM

Dec 2016

and not so much politics, per se. Of course there is a political dimension, but it was always going to be hard ot maintain our elites status in the world.

From 1945-1980 or so, we ruled the world after WWII, and our economy boomed. That was unsustainable.

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