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Have you ever been outside of North America? Where have you been in the USA, and have you spent any significant time there? Have you actually ever sat down and talked with someone who lives in a (more) socialist economy? Communist?
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I am not Azure but agree with a lot of his views in the thread so I will step in here for a moment to ask you a few questions:
Have you been outside of NA?
India as a future world power??? That must be a joke.
Having not only been there but worked there, they have a long way to go to being a mediocre country that can effectively function in the world.
They are closer to collapsing then they are to being some sort of world power.
China is doing a good job of building up economic strength but are themselves far from taking over from the US and especially the Western nations if you included them as a whole.
Personally I have lived outside NA for multiple years, worked in the Middle East and Asia, spent time in the US and talked to people who have lived in Russia, Eastern Bloc countries as well as numerous Soviet Satellite states. I am not sure if that is enough to make the points valid or not but since you asked Azure about those things and I do agree with his stance on this issue I figured it may be relevant.
Personally, I am not sold on this "garbage" that China and India are some sort of future world powers. As I said earlier until they illustrate that they can function at an average level of government/economic standards I will continue to have a hard time believing that they will some how overtake the Western world at any time.