Will we go the way of the british empire

For more than a century the british empire ruled supreme. Ww1 nearly bankrupted the Brits. Ww2 put so much financial stress on the UK that they could no longer hold it's empire together. Today the mighty British navy is only a shell of it's former glory. The UK's army,while very well trained, isn't much larger than the US marine corps. Will the economic stress on the US cause the decay of the armed forces? The uk was the superpower in the past that we are now. They are no longer a superpower. Will history repeat itself and who will take our place? Red may start charging me an education fee.

 

they didnt have the resources the us does. we may take a dive, and certainly will relatively, but not to the extent uk did. they were a colonial power and colonies grow up.

 

we are not even slightly like the british empire. this US as a failing empire is a stupid meme. we dont even have any colonies.

 

I didn't mean it in the case of an empire. I ment it as in the Brits were the world superpower in military terms and economic pressures caused this to end. All superpowers eventually lose that status. Will our econmic problems being 14trillion in debt cause us to lose our superpower status like the Brits did as did the Russians. I know we are not a colonial power and didn't mean it in that sence at all.

 

The brits and Russians lost their military because they couldn't pay for it. Ships and subs sit rusting in port because the Russians couldn't afford to maintain them. The Brits couldn't afford to replace their fleet as it aged. I can see that happening to us if the US economy can not sustain the military because of the debt we hold. You can not maintain superpower status if you can't pay for it.

 

In our case it would be more like Russa. They couldn't pay to support their armed forces because their economy couldn't sustain it. Were getting closer to that every day

 

I have read that they're talks about the dollar being replaced as the worlds reserve currency because we are printing money out of thin air. This devalues the dollar. From my limited understanding we are the only country that can get away with this. Russia,china, OPEC countries and the eu are discussing this. If this happens our dollar will lose over half of it's value overnight. How could we remain a superpower if our economy is trashed and inflation runs wild. This is what I fear when I say we are in danger of losing our superpower status. We are printing money to pay for entitlements that we can't afford. The life of our country is in danger due to a fourteen trillion dollar debt that the world is starting to believe we can never repay. How in the hell do you pay back fourteen trillion? And we still come up with trillion dollar entitlement programs that we will never be able to afford. Our ships and planes will be sitting idle because we can't afford to maintain them if we don't do something. Bad thing is none of us know what to do. Once you start an intitlement you can't take it back. We will go the way of Greece economically and we won't be able to afford to be a superpower I fear.