id say:

1. read it again, and dont read into it.

2. you greatly underestimate what is happening in China right now. no this is not related.

3. what youve been told about “Americas democracy” being the reason for our prosperity is a lie. we were never the richest country until we were the only major industrial country left intact after ww2. that combined with the Christian root culture of the time is the primary reason we are where we are.

i think being the richest nation and being the most dominant empire are inextricably linked.

empire and freedom will always come to conflict.