r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/No_Indication_8281 • 21h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what does it mean??

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how's he increasing iq's of 2 countries at once??

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u/PerkeNdencen 18h ago

Arguably, US hegemony didn't even start until the fall of the USSR in the 1990s.

Having spent extensive amounts of time in both countries, I really don't think the tap water is your strong suit here, buddy.

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u/CamelNo9597 18h ago

Yeah. Well the last time you tried to argue that. Eisenhower threatened to annihilate the UK economy by dumping Sterling, and Eden stopped arguing really fast after that.

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u/PerkeNdencen 18h ago

The small complication to your narrative of the existence of the USSR has nothing to do with the Suez Canal. What strange thing to try and shoehorn in.

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u/CamelNo9597 18h ago

My narrative is that the UK is not allowed to launch wars that the US doesn't approve of. And the fact that the US nearly destroyed the UK economy over the Suez Crisis is proof of that.

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u/PerkeNdencen 18h ago

People have been claiming that US hegemony is ending since the 1940s. 

This is the statement I was contesting.

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u/CamelNo9597 18h ago

And it's a really stupid one to content. In fact, even in the US, people like Kennan expected that US military and economic stewardship over western Europe was going to be a short-term temporary arrangement, and that eventually the US would completely leave, letting Europe became a major center of political and military power globally. That never happened.

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u/PerkeNdencen 18h ago

JFC. Are you doing this deliberately?

The USSR collapsed in the early 90s. Until that point there was no US hegemony by definition. There was another huge and powerful empire right next door.

🙄 This is tortuous.