There's 195 countries in the World. Do you think the majority have standard of livings worse today compared to 1950 due to the US encouraging World Trade?
Much of the world would have loved to have a landline phone in 1950...now in many countries cell phones are the norm.
BTW I had a cellphone in my car in 1988. How many countries had cellphones back in the 1980's? Not many I'd say.
It's a interesting example.
i.e. In 1950 was useful for world elites develop all the people possible, make research, invent things, products, services, etc. All the things hadn't invented.
It was useful, moreover thinking in the existence in the USSR and as a way to stop communism expansion.
But today? Today is not useful the existence of so many developed countries, it's dangerous for USA interests, cheap crude oil and main raw materials are running out from world.
I think Iraq and Libya wars were test of a new paradigm of domination, based in chaos, electronic espionage and remote drone killing, that was impossible in 1950, in 1950 was needed order in a country to extract their natural resources or use their people as cheap labour force. Today, it's not needed.
So a WWIII that destroy Eurasia would be wonderful for USA interests.
That doesnt mean that they will do, maybe it's impossible trigger a Eurasia war and remain untouched, but if someday they can, they will be fools if they wont do it.
Btw World population in 1950 was 2.5 bn people.
Following the cellphone example, I think USA is a state of states (I meant whole world states, not the USA states), specialised in domination.
When I see around me what things are made in USA, I can see mainly 3 categories of things:
1) Things to hard domination: Army military high tech hardware
2) Things to soft domination: Movies, tv series, mainstream press agencies.
3) Things to spy, to get intel to dominate later: Software, Internet Services.
I mean, I dont see kitchens made in usa around me, or trucks made in usa, because those things are not useful to dominate people. But Made In USA has the monopoly in smartphones operating systems.
Following the Libya example, Gadafi was impaled thanks to his satellite phone that give the enemy his physical location.
That's the new paradigm of world domination, cheapest than the 1950 world order.
