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Could very well be, I sincerely hope not. If you remove the facade of petty wars of insert-your-current-thing, I was surprised to see that Biden is even more pro-US and anti-China/Russia than Trump from a strategic standpoint. US is becoming the IBM of sorts of nation. Slow, sluggish, inefficient and it's gonna continue to peddle on as far as no one fucks with the food supplies (or guns).

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> US is becoming the IBM of sorts of nation. Slow, sluggish, inefficient

You should look at the GDP per capita of the US compared to literally every other country in the last 10 years.

> You should look at the GDP per capita

i dont think it's wrong to compare the US to IBM. The GDP per capita is high still because the returns from investments made many decades ago (in fact, almost a century ago!) are bearing fruit. I'm talking about highways, infrastructure and research/development.

But those investments will eventually be completely consumed. So what investments are being made today that would replace it?

IBM was still very profitable when their downfall began.

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