Dude are you serious or just entertaining fellow posters with this talk?
Everybody laughs at Qian Long's "tremblingly obey" edict to the Brits. But Qian Long styled himself 十全老人 (perfect old man) and the Qing reached their peak under him. Qian Long died in 1799. First opium war was in 1840. The Qing continued to rule China (badly) until they were finally overthrown in 1911.
Currently it looks like US reached its peak 1945-1990. Since then they have been going downhill. Still, without US homeland getting directly hit by wars, they have a long way to fall. You gonna keep that credit card balance rolling until 2090?
Given the increasing debt loading and inflationary pressures in the US economy especially as the willingness of foreign lenders to lend money to the US drops concurrently, it's been surmised that the US Bond Market only has about 6 years left before it crashes and effectively cripples US financial liquidity; this basically sets a hard timeframe for US preemptive war between 2-6 years from this point.
