Quote Originally Posted by Gzz View Post
Well, I think that USA is like every other empire: it is great for its time, but who knows how the global situation will evolve.
After all, we are talking about a sunsetting empire: as every other sunsetting, they are spending lots of money for the military and they are trying to expand more without success, plus, their influence is decreasing, thus the "American Exceptionalist" is like every other nationalism claim: void and false.
It'll be void and false once it's disproven. As far as creating an empire like many of the contenders for greatest nation in history goes, we are not doing that. Not even close actually.

Quote Originally Posted by FrostByte
Is the USA the greatest nation ever?
No.
41% of the collective military budget in the entire world is spent by the USA
And yet we're 24th in the world for average math literacy at 15 years old

That's just an example of how our priorities as a country are fucked.
And how about at 18 years old? 15 years old is a meaningless statistic.