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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 2661586, member: 76863&quot;]The difference being none of those are a comparison to a super power with the dominate military force in the world.&nbsp; There are examples of that happening and that is certainly a more reasonable position to take then the doomsday people but country also matters.&nbsp; Countries are not equals on the world economic scale and just because one country collapses because of something does not mean the other does.&nbsp; I can buy into that argument somewhat for people in countries like the ones you listed, but for Americans there has to be a long slow decline first.&nbsp; Also don&#039;t forget America is basically the largest consumer of almost everything in the world.&nbsp; Most of the rest of the world has a vested interest in the US economy not disappearing.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t mean to just spend whatever on whatever, but there is a lot of slack there that a lot of other countries would not have[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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