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It's really breathtaking just how quickly the American hegemony was dismantled.
Yes and no... It literally took decades of meticulous propaganda and division sowing from online Russian (and other) operations, gradually increasing the divide, funding the fringiest groups, boosting the NRA, corrupting every forum, comment section and thread with bots, blackmailing every pedo they could find into going into politics and then backing other pedos... It took a lot of hard work for Putin's wet dream to come to fruition like this! (I'm gonna puke)
Not really...
Our one advantage was we were one of a handful of industrialized nations whose manufacturing power wasn't bombed to hell and back.
Plus, we still sent a shitton of young men to die, so after the war we had a small labor pool which is why factory workers could get a job at 16 and retire at 60 with a full pension.
But our population rebounded, workers became cheap, and then we just sent all of our manufacturing overseas to help corporate profits.
This was always going to happen eventually, it seems sudden but the process has been going on for 40 years at least. Like, it's been ending for as long as it was going on at this point, there's nothing quick about it.