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America’s global military power is so commonplace that it’s easy to overlook how historically unique it is. What’s so unusual and world-changing is not the extent of America’s military, political and economic capacities — but the absence of countries that come anywhere close.
America’s historically anomalous position as a sole superpower with no near peer ended the balance-of-power geopolitics that organized much of world affairs for more than a thousand years — and will fundamentally shape a new geopolitics for at least the next generation.
The United States also derives geopolitical power from its singular capacity to develop new technologies and other valuable intellectual property in large volumes, especially in the software and Internet areas that drive so much economic change and the processes of globalization itself.
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Social Darwinism cultivated the mindset that Europeans were biologically superior to any other culture or civilization. As a result, they believed it was their right as a "superior" group of peoples to take over "inferior" countries and "civilize them" (enforced european practices or economically exploited them). Their mindset: if they were a superior group of people, they were allowed to take over in order to ensure they do what is best for human evolution as a whole.
