What would the world look like without America?

[mystery-ak]

December 4, 2022
What would the world look like without America?
By Eric Utter

Where exactly would the world be without Christianity, capitalism and free markets, and the idea of natural rights?  Without...America?

Would assembly lines and mass production have ever been thought of?  Efficiencies of scale?  Abundant and affordable goods of all kinds?  What could have brought billions out of poverty in the past several decades?  Would someone have eventually discovered electricity?  Who would have invented dental floss, hearing aids, cardiac defibrillators, radiocarbon dating, traffic lights, crash test dummies, lasers, LEDs, chemotherapy, microwave ovens, video games, mobile phones, fiber optic cables, email, personal computers, skyscrapers, suspension bridges, airplanes, the phonograph, the light bulb, the internet, and the Global Positioning System, just to name a few of the mind-boggling number of American inventions that have so greatly benefited mankind humankind?

There is much talk today among the woke about "appropriation" and "reparations."  Appropriation?!  Virtually everyone else in the world has appropriated American inventions, technology, and ideas.  (Or stolen them outright, as is the case with China.)  Perhaps reparations are due to the United States from all the countries that have immeasurably benefited from its excellence and largess, and the countless millions who would not otherwise be alive today.

It is true that the American founders themselves gleaned much from Europe's Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason.  Thomas Jefferson utilized some of John Locke's ideas in composing the Declaration of Independence, particularly Locke's notion of natural rights.  Sadly, today, Western nations are intent on rushing headlong into what can only be called the Confusion, or the Age of Stupidity.  Where once we pondered and debated the accumulated wisdom of human history and man's relation to God and His universe, today we can't even acknowledge the existence of two sexes or identify the things that differentiate them.  We in the West are on the cusp of attempting to banish God-- and free markets — to the trash bin of history, while elevating and celebrating entitlement, sloth, and amorality to/as virtues.

Jacob Bronowski wrote of The Ascent of Man, but, to my knowledge, he did not anticipate our demise.  The Descent of Man that we are currently experiencing could be permanent, due to the complete control that leftists now have over virtually every institution in most Western nations.

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[libertybele]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhb4WWqQHs

[Kamaji]

Depends on whether the Nazis would have eventually beaten the Communists, or the other way around.  And on whether the Japanese Empire would have survived.

[Bigun]

Impossible to know.

Would Great Britian still be the superpower of the world?  Would the Czars still rule Russia? Would the warlords still rule China?  ...

[goatprairie]

Depends on whether the Nazis would have eventually beaten the Communists, or the other way around.  And on whether the Japanese Empire would have survived.

It's not clear whether the Germans could have beaten  the SU and Britain. Although the SU had great help from Britain and the U.S. in the way of foodstuffs, armaments, and motor vehicles, they stiffly repelled the Germans in the Battle Of Moscow in December of 1941 with virtually no help from Britain or the U.S. in the way of materiel. The U.S. was just into the war by a few days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and Hitler insanely declared war on the U.S. the next day.
The declaration of war against the U.S. sank Germany's hopes for good. There's no way Germany could match the manpower and materiel/raw resources of the combined Allied forces.  They would eventually be crushed by the Allied advantage. The U.S. could afford to place millions of men in the Pacific and Asia fighting the Japanese and still have enough men and materiel to help crush the Germans in Europe.
But again, it's not clear that the Germans could have defeated just the SU and Britain. The SU had huge supplies of materiel and manpower which they ruthlessly used during the war.
However, Stalin, Khrushchev, and Zhukov all said that without the help of American motor vehicles allowing them to shift troops much faster than the Germans who still relied greatly on horse-driven transport for men and materiel, they might have lost the war.

[Fishrrman]

"What would the world look like without America?"

I won't be here, but those who WILL be here in, say, 50-60 more years, will know.