The unity of the USA was only possible because of the competition between the extraordinary value of continental expansion, and the extraordinary risk that the european powers would either claim those territories, bring the states into more wars, or reconquer the continent.
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… superior military organization and subsequent administration. (d) and subject to the same failure: that majority middle class (productive) civilizations over extend commerce (profits) beyond the reach of the military and cultural discipline that made that prosperity possible.
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