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At first that may be what’ll happen.But think about how the US was balanced for decades by the USSR. And during that period, the US was a better actor than the USSR. West Germany was better off than East Germany, South Korea was more prosperous than North Korea, and in general the US strengthened its allies while the Soviets didn’t.However, once the USSR fell, the US gradually became unbalanced. After 1991, it invaded too many countries and printed too much money — both to its own citizens’ detriment and to ...