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Originally Posted by the_13th_redneck I wouldn't call the War on Terror World War Four. | My sentiments exactly...unless predictions from gladius and Doc.S start materialising... |
Lol. **staring up my predict-o-matic machine**
We will have relative stability for next 10 to 20 years or so since GW Bush bought us some time, after that... watch out!
Barring any major cataclisym, the USA will be force for at least next 100 years (I'm am saying this based on an article I read on the life and death of empires and powers in which most of them showed the same pattern of accension and regresion). That's why it is important for the USA to remain centrered on the path it's been taking economicaly, moraly, and socialy (we have deviated from this in the past decades slightly to the left, now are heading back to center). The further we deviate from this path the faster the doward slide goes.
So yes the USA will be a major power and player in the next World War, whether it's number III, IV or V. But that's not to say there will be other players also in the future, some of the already established and up-and-coming, others may pop up within a short time sort of like Nazi Germany did prior to WW II.