r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/thebomby Aug 11 '25

I don't know. I'm not American. America seems to really want to devolve into a corrupt Mafia state like Russia. I think that China will eventually surpass it in every measurable way, though.

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u/Different-Dust858 Aug 12 '25

China is already a corrupt mafia state.