>Britain started the 20th Century as the de facto world power >Ended the 20th Century a shell of her former self
>Japan started the 20th Century as a newly industrialized power with great promise and greater ambition >Ended as a frighteningly elderly western nation
>US started the 20th Century as a successful, albeit isolated super power >Ended having inherited Britain's original title, but with twice as many problems
Where will we be by 2100 Veeky Forums?
James Jones
>Whatifs and whattaboutisms Not Veeky Forums
Connor Rogers
The UN predicts that Africa's population will grow to between four to *ten* billion by 2100.
A hundred years ago, Africans were 10% of the world population. In a hundred years, they will be over 70% of the world population.
And they won't stay in Africa.
The most powerful nations in a hundred years will be the ones that protect their borders.
Japan will bounce back. North America and western Europe will not.
Mason Bailey
SEA along with with Australia are in for a good time. As are both South Korea and Japan, as long as they maintain relations. The rest of the world will probably remain the same or decline.
Brandon Hughes
>SEA along with with Australia are in for a good time.
Not Philippines
Carter Price
USA was only a regional power at start of the century.
Benjamin Bailey
Personally, I believe that this current phase of open-borders support is just that- a phase. Most of the "refugees" will be forced back in 20 years, and no more will be brought in.
Eli Bennett
Africans will not grow to 10 billion. Their growth rate will slow down drastically like everyone else.
Kevin James
In 20 years the refugees will have had children and it will be impossible to get them out
Adam Gray
Usually once nations start seeing a modicum of wealth birth rates slow right down. It's happening in India (childbirth rates are already down to ~2 in middle class families, and decreasing in the poor) and it will probably happen in Africa over the 21st century as more children become a burden rather than a financial advantage
Caleb Sullivan
You clearly haven't paid any attention to the demographic shift occurring all over the western world if you think they'll be "forced back".
Adam Ward
What the fuck? No.
Parker Adams
USA starts the 21st Century at sole superpower.
USA will end the 21st Century usurped by 2 billion population China.
Henry Morgan
Isnt the world supposed to be uninhabtable by then?
Carson Gutierrez
It doesn't really matter, I doubt Africa will ever become self-sustainable. Should the west and their aid shit the bed then you'll see starvation and strife of an unprecedented level on the dark continent.
Angel Watson
you underestimate the raw breeding power of big black nigger dicks
William Parker
We will be in space by 2100 because some war will have caused a massive technological advance resulting in the feasibility to live in colonies in space or on the moon or mars. Also the civil rights movement will have moved on to robot marriage, which if I live until then I will wholeheartedly support so I can get my robot waifu.
Connor Russell
definitely not
Jordan Wilson
>What the fuck? No.
Its true, whilst the US still had the potential it was in no way a superpower.
For instance at 1914 the US navy was not even half the strength or size of the UK Navy, not only that it was even smaller than the German Navy. Likewise it only had a standing army of 145K (in 1917) compare this to the 1914 figures for the European Powers
UK 250K Austria Hungary 450K Germany 870K France 700K Ottoman Empire 210K
Adam Gutierrez
It was a great power, like Germany, with a focus on it's private frontier.
Ryder Lewis
>this guy thinks that the aid is worth a fraction of the tribute Africa pays
I bet you understand that most of the aid doesn't get to actual Africans. But you still think Africa is a net loss for the developed world, and it isn't. Cut off all involvement, a magic shield appears around Africa, and the developed world collapses quicker.
Camden Nelson
The US will be lucky if they can last the decade.
Jordan Peterson
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Jayden Hall
US rightly considered standing armies Un-American and tyrannical. Everyone knew exactly what sort of armies the USA could raise, based on the ACW.