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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:22 am

With "The West" now in terminal and irreversible decline and increasingly in hock to its Eastern paymasters, will the USA withdraw from Empire in as dignified and orderly a fashion as Blighty did?

I doubt it, they'll have to make a big song and dance about it, and crow that the USA retreated from Empire much better than anyone else did. Bah!
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Post by Tyrannical » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:26 am

Meh, I'd rather have a Republic than an Empire anyways.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:28 am

Tyrannical wrote:Meh, I'd rather have a Republic than an Empire anyways.
Who knows what you'll be left with....
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Post by Rum » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:50 am

Next empire the Caliphate perhaps! :ask:

Actually no - they seem to prefer fighting amongst each other rather too much to get it together.
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:52 am

My money is on the Brazilians.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:50 am

I need your definition of "empire".
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Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:51 am

Gawdzilla wrote:I need your definition of "empire".
Don't be going all "CES" on me.....
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Post by Pensioner » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:00 am

Gawdzilla wrote:I need your definition of "empire".
The good old days.
“I wish no harm to any human being, but I, as one man, am going to exercise my freedom of speech. No human being on the face of the earth, no government is going to take from me my right to speak, my right to protest against wrong, my right to do everything that is for the benefit of mankind. I am not here, then, as the accused; I am here as the accuser of capitalism dripping with blood from head to foot.”

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:01 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:I need your definition of "empire".
Don't be going all "CES" on me.....
Oxford Ratz Dictionary definition will be find, of course.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:02 am

Pensioner wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:I need your definition of "empire".
The good old days.
When Willard Fillmore was president?
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Post by Schneibster » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:40 pm

Clinton Huxley wrote:With "The West" now in terminal and irreversible decline and increasingly in hock to its Eastern paymasters, will the USA withdraw from Empire in as dignified and orderly a fashion as Blighty did?
Wow, so many assumptions, so little time.

"Empire?" Whachoo talkin' 'bout, Willis? Are you high on gasoline?

Keep in mind we never claimed any places detached from our mainland as wholly owned subsidiaries, like India. Let's start there.
Clinton Huxley wrote:I doubt it, they'll have to make a big song and dance about it, and crow that the USA retreated from Empire much better than anyone else did. Bah!
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Post by Jason » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:44 pm

Dunno what their empire will dwindle down to or how magnanimous they'll be about it. I expect they'll claim to have never been an empire in the first place. :hehe:

I'm more concerned that other nations shift their economic ties away from the listing USS USA before it capsizes.
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Post by Ian » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:50 pm

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Post by Schneibster » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:52 pm

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Re: USA: Losing an Empire, yet to find a role...

Post by Jason » Fri Dec 02, 2011 11:54 pm

:oops: I should have used graceful rather than magnanimous. :gracias:
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