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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What other countries? The only global power that is a near peer of the US with respect to military power is China.

There are geopolitical reasons that the US is in the position it is, and while a distributed system might be nice, unless the underlying geopolitical realities change, the US is stuck at the top