You can't sustain an Empire on a Service economy.

You can't run an empire on a Service economy, the root word of service are all weak sounding definitions, servant, servile, servitude etc, The ruling elite’s of the United States traded their industrial economy for a service economy and this is really what the military empire rests on not visa versa.
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You would think the strategic planners of the nation would see that their empire would be unsustainable if they weakened their pawn base, their proletariat what ever you want to call the mass of the working class.
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Now in order to enrich themselves they empowered a strong challenger to their Global System in China, the empowerment was done by transferring knowledge, technology and capital to china, and they key element was allowing these things to be shipped back into the US without a high tariff attached to them, now we are in late phases of the game.