Mia Wong

It is a story of how structural forces and contingent choices, technological changes in class wars, domestic politics and grand international maneuvers and international relations built a political and economic structure that ruled the world for half a century of American hegemony. And we are going to tell a very, very abbreviated version of that story for one final time.

Because that world... Well, don't say final.

Because that world... Well, don't say final.

Because that world... Well, don't say final.

The world that we were all born into. That world is fucking dead. And Donald Trump has killed it. And this is how it died. Garrison. Yes. In the beginning... There was war. Sure. In the ashes of a continent ripped by the flames of fascism, two armies stood triumphant over a new world. One of them, unfortunately, was the United States, and the second one, unfortunately, was the USSR.

The world that we were all born into. That world is fucking dead. And Donald Trump has killed it. And this is how it died. Garrison. Yes. In the beginning... There was war. Sure. In the ashes of a continent ripped by the flames of fascism, two armies stood triumphant over a new world. One of them, unfortunately, was the United States, and the second one, unfortunately, was the USSR.

The world that we were all born into. That world is fucking dead. And Donald Trump has killed it. And this is how it died. Garrison. Yes. In the beginning... There was war. Sure. In the ashes of a continent ripped by the flames of fascism, two armies stood triumphant over a new world. One of them, unfortunately, was the United States, and the second one, unfortunately, was the USSR.

Now, it's also worth mentioning that very briefly, both the French and the British assumed they would also be like superpowers, and no. Jokes. Washed. Failed. Failed powers. Zero out of ten. Absolute dipshits.

Now, it's also worth mentioning that very briefly, both the French and the British assumed they would also be like superpowers, and no. Jokes. Washed. Failed. Failed powers. Zero out of ten. Absolute dipshits.

Now, it's also worth mentioning that very briefly, both the French and the British assumed they would also be like superpowers, and no. Jokes. Washed. Failed. Failed powers. Zero out of ten. Absolute dipshits.

Well, you know, I mean, but the actual shift here, though, and this is, you know, this actually is a lot of what this episode is about, is that The thing that World War I or World War II did was, and World War I also did this, but was fundamentally break the power of the old world empires, right?

Well, you know, I mean, but the actual shift here, though, and this is, you know, this actually is a lot of what this episode is about, is that The thing that World War I or World War II did was, and World War I also did this, but was fundamentally break the power of the old world empires, right?

Well, you know, I mean, but the actual shift here, though, and this is, you know, this actually is a lot of what this episode is about, is that The thing that World War I or World War II did was, and World War I also did this, but was fundamentally break the power of the old world empires, right?

Because the world had been ruled for several hundred years by various combinations of the French, the British, and the Germans, and, you know, to some extent, like, Spain, but Spain was sort of gone, right? But, like, those old world empires had been what had structured everything in the world, right? And at the end of World War II, that suddenly wasn't the case anymore.

Because the world had been ruled for several hundred years by various combinations of the French, the British, and the Germans, and, you know, to some extent, like, Spain, but Spain was sort of gone, right? But, like, those old world empires had been what had structured everything in the world, right? And at the end of World War II, that suddenly wasn't the case anymore.

Because the world had been ruled for several hundred years by various combinations of the French, the British, and the Germans, and, you know, to some extent, like, Spain, but Spain was sort of gone, right? But, like, those old world empires had been what had structured everything in the world, right? And at the end of World War II, that suddenly wasn't the case anymore.

And the product of this was that if you look at the places in the world that had the largest remaining industrial reserves, right? You know, I mean, there was obviously some industrial production in Latin America, particularly Argentina. There was some like Chinese manufacturing belts that were run by Japan in China that weren't destroyed.

And the product of this was that if you look at the places in the world that had the largest remaining industrial reserves, right? You know, I mean, there was obviously some industrial production in Latin America, particularly Argentina. There was some like Chinese manufacturing belts that were run by Japan in China that weren't destroyed.

And the product of this was that if you look at the places in the world that had the largest remaining industrial reserves, right? You know, I mean, there was obviously some industrial production in Latin America, particularly Argentina. There was some like Chinese manufacturing belts that were run by Japan in China that weren't destroyed.

And then there was the entire manufacturing power of the United States. And this meant that alone among countries, right, the U.S. was in the most dominant position, like one of the most dominant positions a great power has ever been in, even though there technically was a second great power, right? They had an unbelievable percentage of the world's total manufacturing power.