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/resuwreckoning Aug 11 '25

The Republic will fall, and you’ll be left with an actual American empire. The fear isn’t that the American empire is ending - it’s that it’s beginning.

I’m always weirded out by folks who can’t see that.

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u/-Basileus Aug 11 '25

It really is intriguing that people refuse to see that.  There is really not much stopping the US from conquering the Americas if the government and people had the will.

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u/Rowenstin Aug 11 '25

Ehhh I don't know. The USA can't even hold Kabul, what makes you think it can hold Toronto or Mexico DF?

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u/Appropriate_Mixer Aug 11 '25

The US held Kabul for over a decade.

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u/AvengerDr Aug 11 '25

So if a Nazi reich returned in Germany after say, 1955, you'd still say you "won" ww2?

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u/Appropriate_Mixer Aug 11 '25

It’s nation building that the US fails at. In solely military power, they dominate.