americanempireproject.com - The American Empire Project

Description: The American Empire Project is a response to the changes that have occurred in America's strategic thinking as well as in its military and economic posture.

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We live on a planet in motion, a world of collision and drift. This was once an Earth of super-continents — Gondwana , Rodinia , Pangea . The eastern seaboard of the United States sidled up against West Africa , while Antarctica cozied up to the opposite side of the African continent. But nothing in this world lasts and the tectonic plates covering the planet are always in motion. Suddenly — over the course of hundreds of millions of years — supercontinents cease to be super, breaking into smaller land mass

More recently, those itinerant continents were carved up by human beings into countries. A couple — China and India — are now home to more than a billion people each. But even modest-sized nations can be massive in their own right. Spain and Canada, neighbors in Pangea hundreds of millions of years ago, now have populations of almost 47 million and nearly 38 million , respectively, making them the 30th and 39th most populous countries on this planet. But together, they’re no larger than a nation-less nation

The number of people forcibly displaced by war, persecution, general violence, or human-rights violations last year swelled to a staggering  84 million , according to UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency. If they formed their own country, it would be the 17th largest in the world, slightly bigger than Iran or Germany.  Add in those driven across borders by  economic desperation  and the number balloons past one billion, placing it among the three largest nations on Earth.

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