>>43502
So foreseeing America's rise.
In general the problem with foreseeing stuff is that so many parallel opinions exist, some of them are bound to be true. Those who proved to be right were smart or just lucky?
And individual people too say many things, even broken clock displays time correctly twice a day.
On the other hand, there are information out there laying about and they need to be sorted out and put together, and they may see the flow of the processes, and they might come to the right conclusion. And ofc circumstances change all the time, and can change the direction of history.
And then for the different sides, countries, ideologies they always have mandatory stuff to say (that is ofc, their sides are right and will win).
Nothing is without a precedent, today's events are built on yesterday's there had to be signs of US's rise, how apparent they were I cannot judge, I don't know what info was available, and our judgement is forever tainted by the knowledge of the events that followed, so even with the best intention we would weigh the importance of the info according to this.
For Britain's downfall chief clue could have been how easily their asses were handed over to them. Back in the day in Iberia against the French Wellington fought back hard (I think it was Wellington, I might be wrong). If not for the US (and I don't want to minimize the role of the Commonwealth nations neither) from the Western and Southern fronts, nothing could have come out. By '42, Britain was out of Europe with no way back.
In WWI the showing up of the US in Europe was just a frosting on a cake, but it showed that they aren't just confined on their continent, and they have a place in the big boys' table. Then they essentially reached below the armpits of Europe and raised them up from the ground. Then the great depression was spiraled out from the US, it hit hard everyone. The significance what's happening there can't be missed.
Eh, too large topic, and my thoughts are all over the place.