Sounds like you're about to give the OP a hard sell on a course or some other BS.

I don't think the US will become too war exhausted for another war. We just got out of one and we're back in one again. Taiwan would get politicians and people fired up.

I am a "cis folk with Strong Opinions on other people's bodies" and I have met plenty and even work with a couple.

Pax Americana is doomed. What the USA looks like post-hegemony is TBD.

The Pax Americana was already over when Russia siezed Crimea.

The land will be there. (most of) people will be there. What parent probably meant is losing everything good and positive United States of America represented in past 80+ years, internally and globally.

That is gone my friend, with the wind like a sulfuric fart, for good. US is becoming a global terrorist and enemy #2 of free world and certainly whole Europe (right after its biggest and only 'friend', russia which coincidentally keeps trying to make you a thing of the past). This comes from somebody who strongly believed in your role in global hegemony despite your numerous well documented fuckups in the past. All on the whims of one visibly mentally sick man, with absolutely nobody standing up to him despite nobody really believing in any of that bullshit. No principles, just plain greed and firm fuck-the-rest approach. Right now, if Europe needs a strong big ally it will be #1 China, and then... nothing.

The fact you voted him in, and he still has massive support, and there has been 0 overthrow attempts of the biggest traitor to US in its history tells me and everybody else in the world many things, but nothing positive. Even if next election, if they will happen, will have 98% win of the democracts with that ridiculous unfair and undemocratic system of yours, it won't change a permanent shift that started and keeps happening. US has no real allies, in same vein russia or China has no real allies.

Empires rise and fall, inevitably, there was never a reason to think US would be an exception.

The US is dead; it is now a Trumpian shithole.

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Throughout human history entire families, tribes, villages, and cities were on the edge of death, whether it was by disease, famine, or invaders. This is nothing new. Don't by into the people selling fear.

These comments/upvotes feel astroturfed and any negative/questioning comments are heavily downvoted.

Might be because negative/questioning comments sound to be written by people who have no clue what they are talking about.

>What is it like in the US these days?

Pretty normal unless you're an illegal immigrant. Despite what the media tells you and all your pearl clutching coworkers are told to think by said media.

Coming soon to a city near you!

What makes you think so?

China is building more coal plants right now than the entire world combined so don’t worry they have those too.

And yet their coal usage has plateaued for the last few years, and actually likely started to decline in 25.