>>2981616Busy invading countries, controlling and managing trade massive trade markets, every decade in the last 100 years has seen a new war, have 2.3 military personnel to manage and supply with new advanced equipment every 15 years, have 30 million Americans that need government assistance for one reason or another, have to keep expanding and building our massive infrastructure very slowly, have to keep providing other countries with tens of billion in aid every single year. We took a page from the British Empire, if you want to keep managing a massive nation you need to amass soft power (money and trade) and as long as you keep your debt marginal (below around 150%) you will be able to manage fine. A lot of people don't remember it, but the British Empire had 400 million people in the 1800s (25% of the global population then, you can be sure most of them were "minorities") and look how well the British Empire did with all of them. In the modern age its even more difficult to run a massive country.
