Comments by "William Innes" (@williaminnes6635) on "America is the New Rome" video.

That might be the wish fulfilment element of why I entertain the conspiracy theory that the Space Force Corps of Engineers has secretly been using high altitude balloons and a giant conveyor belt to resupply a maintenance and security base on the Moon to maintain and secure probes for the sake of bringing back gold from the asteroid belt. The conjecture part is the secret mission, space miners, and probes dragging back asteroids of gold. The Space Force openly exists. Mountains of money have vapourized in the budgets passed since 2020, which they even named the "infrastructure" and "inflation reduction" acts. The carbon nanotube technology on the materials engineering side to build a structure which could orbit the Earth from the Moon has existed since the late 2010s. America has also been out of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 since the late 2010s. It's everything most people hate about the military-industrial complex and forever war bureaus in the Pentagon instead put to the service of sounder money and exploring the solar system in a practical sense.
1
23:47
1
17:45
1
34:32 we'll see what happens out of pandemic and remote work
1
@ChaffyExpert That would be the scenario where America is New Kingdom Egypt, Brazil is Nubia, and following a massive collapse in American reach coinciding with a technological revolution which also leaves America as the last major power standing in the known world Brazil makes contact again except even more Americanized and ends up briefly occupying America during a period of civic breakdown after brokering a peace which fails. i. e. in the future, when Americans say football, they have ceased to mean hand egg.
1
@mattia8327 NATO itself will be lucky to come out of the Ukraine grift with its credibility intact and more than a decade or so left in it as an alliance.
1
@mattia8327 "The West" isn't a particularly useful frame of reference in my view in modern times. Plainly enough, if it ever was a civilization, it is on the decline. I like the optimism of Rudyard's perspective that America will mutate along with LATAM and the Inner Indo-Pacific into one of three cultural influences on a future spacefaring civilization. However, from the perspective of the decline of personal privacy and basically all developments in tech and AI, I think we're more likely in the Firefly timeline.
1