[nebula8804]

When USSR fell there was a lot of talk about how it was meant to be since the US system is the best of all the terrible systems. It deserved to win and the USSR system deserved to die.

>America needs a lot more strategic government control of the economy, to kick businesses out of their short-term shareholder-focused thinking. If it can't manage that, it will decline into irrelevance.

If it is meant to be then its meant to be. If the US decides to cling to its old system and it fails well then we would know that it wasn't the best system after all. Humankind will keep moving forward even if it means that another continent controls the show.