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The big difference is technology and therefore: Our weapons are better, a great power war and/or civil war could kill everyone or at least, enough people to collapse civilization. The oil and rare earth ores essential for building technological infrastructure which can be extracted without...

While this forum loves comparing everything to Rome, Dynastic China arguably makes a better prediction model. The status quo leadership deliberately sabotages the country's own technological and scientific progress because it's expensive and since they've got a monopoly on things the way they...

I imagine the Apollo Landings going down more like Zheng He's Treasure Fleet expedition than anything else. Legitimately an incredible accomplishment and if Ming Dynasty China/America hadn't given up and destroyed their prototypes, their nations would've greatly benefited. However, the...