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[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We are more resourceful than ever so no, I dont think it will accelerate a decline of any given nation. It does highly increase our chances of annihilating ourselves in one go, but that's another conversation.

An example is when the Suez canal got clogged up during COVID. That kind of halt in the global logjstics is the kinda thing that would have absolutely brought down an empire, but we managed.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Oh that's a cool example. Yeah that level of interruption in global trade was crazy