The end of Pax Britannica

Britain used to be the world’s great power and it’s currency the world’s currency. What happened? Graeme Thompson explains it in this article he published on Engelsberg Ideas. Here’s the link. He says at the beginning, ” A mercantilist, multipolar geopolitical system appears to be emerging from within the liberal world order, destined to replace it. The experience of Britain’s imperial past suggests that this transformation is unlikely to be peaceful.” The British experience he describes will in many ways sound familiar to you unless you’ve been living off grid somewhere. Like some person is supposed to have said, “History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.” Articles like this provide a perspective that helps me be objective about what the United States is going through. Perspective makes me a bit calmer and more rational in my analysis.