To be honest, I do somewhat understand the point of view but not the US-centric view.
I do wonder why Italy is poorer on average on HDI and PPP than Finland despite Italy having been a âlarge civilizationâ back in the day. Rome was flourishing before Common Era while Finland went straight from the Bronze Age to the Middle ages.
Sure, both were Axis powers but this doesnât explain the difference. Finland paid heavy reparations to the USSR, suddenly developed industry and became ârichâ in less than a century for putting money into tech (???)
I donât understand the point theyâre trying to make. âThe United States is the only modern civilization in the world left aloneâ? What does that even mean? Does he/she think that in the past all these countries were powerful civilizations all at the same time? When Rome (Italy) was powerful, Greece was already past its prime (a.k.a. it was a âshitholeâ). Rome was so much better than Greece that some prominent Greek people arranged to have themselves sold into temporary bondage / slavery to Romans because once they became freed from that bondage they gained Roman citizenship.
The New Kingdom of Egypt existed between the 16th century BC and the 11th century BC. It overlapped a little bit with the Greek empire, which started around 1200 BC. That powerful Egyptian empire was long gone by the time of the Romans, which is how we ended up with Mark Antony, a Roman, in charge of the âshitholeâ eastern provinces, which included Egypt under its queen Cleopatra, a Macedonian / Greek descended from a companion of Alexander the Great. Egypt gave way to Greece which gave way to Rome.
In more recent times, Before WWI Great Britain was the worldâs largest empire, and by the end of WWII the reins had been handed by the new upstart, the USA. When the US empire crumbles, someone else will be the next major world power. Thatâs just how things go. Of course the past empires look like âshitholesâ whereas the current empire looks powerful. Once the US is replaced as a world power, it will look like a shithole too.
Ignoring that four of the five biggest economies have thousands of years of history being a powerful country
Oh donât worry anon, eventually the US will join them, and if current events are any indication it wonât take much longer.
Guy from Turkey forgets to list Turkey as a former empire that is now a shithole