A viral ad produced by the British website, 18 Doughty Street, which imagines what “A World Without America” would be like is going down a storm on YouTube and across the blogosphere.
“A World Without America” would be a world “with less freedom,” “without many medical advances,” “without Israel”, “poorer” and one “held to ransom by tyrants” the video argues with the help of a series of spoof news bulletins from recent decades.
What do you think? Would “A World Without America” be a better or worse place? Could you even imagine such a world, so central is the country and its culture to our lives?
What else would “A World Without America” lack? The computer you are using now and its software, for example? Would we in Britain even be speaking English in such a world?
Or do you take the opposing view that “A World Without America” would be one without junk food, the worst of Hollywood, global warming and even al-Qa’eda?
Does the fact that America has been responsible for great advances mean that we can’t criticise its defects? Many think America is over critisized, and countries such as Rusia and China would commite more atrocities than than the US if they had her power. Is the video well-timed and enlightening or obsequious and patronising?
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American world dominance 
A world without America would immediately plunge into the greatest economic depression in history as the “market of last resort” no longer exists to soak up the products of a developing world which relied on blocking imports from America and flooding America with exports. One third of the world’s total asset wealth would disappear. $14 trillion dollars in foreign claims on US assets would become meaningless overnight. All the dollars held by China in return for those cheap sneakers Americans bought at Wal-Mart would be so much monopoly money.
Russia would be unconstrained by the threat of nuclear retaliation and quickly move to re-establish the Soviet Empire and a ring of buffer client states even larger than the original Warsaw Pact, including an unarmed and united Germany. Only at France at Britain, who possess modest nuclear stockpiles of their own, would Putin call a halt to his advancing tanks.
With no U.S. nuclear umbrella protecting South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, an alliance of China and North Korea would move to sew up all of East Asia in a new Co-prosperity Sphere, which would threaten Australia from the north. Australia would begin developing nuclear weapons in defense, but a Chinese naval blockade would isolate them from mother England and begin to strangle their trade.
All the nations in Africa and Latin America who depended on US largesse for medical and humanitarian relief would begin to suffer like never before. Any tsunami in Indonesia would be greeted by a global shrug. Oil would crash to $6 a barrel as the biggest consumer of it disappears, and with it the funding for world Jihad. In places like Saudi Arabia the oil sheiks would flee to Europe to be closer to their Swiss bank accounts as the masses of people find that they can’t eat sand. With no more funding from their Arab brothers, the Palestinians would be at the tender mercies of the Israeli population they had tormented for decades.
Source from:(http://fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com/2007/02/world-without-america.html)
A world without America would immediately plunge into the greatest economic depression in history as the market of last resort no longer exists to soak up the products of a developing world which relied on blocking imports from America and flooding America with exports. One third of the world’s total asset wealth would disappear. $14 trillion dollars in foreign claims on US assets would become meaningless overnight. All the dollars held by China in return for those cheap sneakers Americans bought at Wal-Mart would be so much monopoly money.
In my opinion, ‘A World without America’ would be a better place but to a certain extend that ‘A world without America’ would plunge into the greatest economy depression. However,if America does not take other countries resources, the world wouldn’t get into economy depression.America control the world economy because they would do anything to get other countries sources and wealth.
For example, on security, the United States is the global balance of power. While it’s not our preference, we are the world’s “cop on the beat,” providing critical stability in some of the planet’s toughest neighborhoods.
Without the U.S. “Globo-cop,” rivals India and Pakistan might well find cause to unleash the dogs of war in South Asia – undoubtedly leading to history’s first nuclear (weapons) exchange. Talk about Fourth of July fireworks . . .
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/a_world_without_america.html
In today’s economy,people would say that ‘A World without America’ would effect the world badly but if we would think what have cause today’s economy and situation,we would say that it is a better place if ‘A World without America’.
IN my opinion world can’t without AMERICAN becasue as we know AMERICAN is the big country in the world and it’s have high technology and education . AMERICAN is very respect for the personal freedom and also AMERICAN wrok on it .
how can the world without AMERICAN ,there some reason to share first if world without AMERICAN which country in the number one positon in the world ,if dont have AMERICAN the world really can be safe or really can keep the peace.there are many reason the world can’t without AMERICAN .
People would easily point out to some things the US has done, but no, she is not an angel. She has done her best, and if other countries had the power the US had, they would have been WORST. France once had this power when Napoleon was leader, and she burnt all of europe. Hitler once had this power, and we all know the results. Every body would not agree, but a strong America is very important for the world.
First of all I have to announce some stuff to all the bloggers and the blog readers who advocate Eric. I’m not terrorism nor anti American or what ever statement that you guys have given to me so far. Ok, here we go. I hope that you guys know about the dirty game behind of Al-Qaeda. I hope you guys know that who used to be the best friend of Ben laden. I hope you guys know who has trained and given the first equipments to Ben laden. I hope you guys have heard the shocking news of 2005 that caused the renunciation of American general in Afghanistan. I hope you guys have heard about the conspiracy behind of the scene of battle ground. I hope you guys know the reason that Uncle Sam trained Al-Qaeda to defeat against soviet empire. Now you tell me, why in the year of 2005 the U.S. troops decided to withdrew from the battle ground which supposed to be deployed? Why the general in charge of that batter had ousted after the event? Don’t you think that, they have been told to not go further from the top levels?!! Don’t you think if troops could find Ben laden, the United States had any reason to conquer the region? Let us be honest to the history, all the time through the history there was the reason to deploy the troops and there was the reason to conquer. Don’t you think if there was no United States, we could see any body by the name of Al-Qaeda? All the stories have designed to create the sufficient enough reason to control the autonomies. To your question Eric, United States is power full not because of the weakness of the other nations, because she doesn’t let the men to learn how to fish. Uncle Sam has defined many plots to make the nations on curb exactly how he wants. Yes, if there was no United States there was no Al-Qaida, HIV, Anthrax and even J. Robert Oppenheimer.
P.S. to the dear friends, I am not anti American and for your information I appreciate her colonial strategies because I believe that poor must be poor and rich must remain rich.
This bardia dude is a joke. You are not anti-american? bin laden said the same thing. Infact, you should be related.
Is he too dumb to know that the US trained osama to free them from soviet occupation? You said the US don’t teach people to ‘fish’, what do you call that? They gave Bin laden, and NOT alquieda arms to defend their liberty from soviet occupation, they have done the same thing to south american nations, and the south ameicans don’t become terrorist after, only bin laden and his bunch of murderers did.
Dude, don’t be so brain washed. don’t get ill FACTS facts from people and turn them into reality.
bardia says,..’if there was no US, there would be no HIV’…..
this dude surely has childhood problems. No disrespect. True, u have right to opinion, but to say such a thing is sick.
Ok it seems that our dear friend is not following the news and has not any clue about the chemical laboratories in Detroit, Arizona, and Salt Lake City. Dude I am chemical engineer and for my thesis I had done a research for couple of years on HIV and I got the facts and figures that governs the story behind of HIV in the American laboratories.
PS. The United States has beefed up the troops of Al-Qaeda to defeat against the soviet empire because these people had the direct control on Russia not the South Americans. The evidence can be observed as the US’s military’s activities in Hungary. In addition, you tell me, why at the 9.11 there was no Israeli fellow in the trade center? Or maybe you can give me the answer of this question, why even though the world has introduced by lots of equipments and technologies, they couldn’t find Ben laden? As I know if some one seizes your car, you can find it via the satellites in just less than couple of hours (not for free)!!! You think this issue is that jeopardized that they couldn’t found the fellow? How come they found Saddam Hussein just at the right time that he had to be found 😉 Bro, please be cool and think like a man, if U.S. overcomes to this issue (terrorism) who is going to buy the guns from them? If the world will be in peace, who will ask from Uncle Sam for gun and bomb? U.S. is not stupid; they create people and stories to sell their equipments.
This bardia dude has syphilis. he said i am a chemical engineer, who gives a fuck about that? do u think u are better qualified with your disastrous biased comments? you are asking,why was there no isreali in the WTC, why r you guys so obssessed with the death of these guys? they don’t give a fuck about you people, and the earlier they finish with u people,the better. why don’t u ask urself, why was there no indian in the wtc, or why was there no french, german,portuguese…..?
by the way its nice to see people’e knowledge on how they play with words and use the the F word!!!
For all the worldwide whining and bellyaching about the United States, July 4th — America’s 230th birthday — provides an opportune time for them to consider for just a moment what the world might be like without good ol’ Uncle Sam.
The picture isn’t pretty. Absent U.S. leadership, diplomatic influence, military might, economic power and unprecedented generosity, life aboard planet earth would likely be pretty grim, indeed. Set aside the differences America made last century — just imagine a world where this country had vanished on Jan. 1, 2001.
On security, the United States is the global balance of power. While it’s not our preference, we are the world’s “cop on the beat,” providing critical stability in some of the planet’s toughest neighborhoods.
Without the U.S. “Globo-cop,” rivals India and Pakistan might well find cause to unleash the dogs of war in South Asia — undoubtedly leading to history’s first nuclear (weapons) exchange. Talk about Fourth of July fireworks . . .
In Afghanistan, al Qaeda would still be an honored guest, scheming over a global caliphate stretching from Spain to Indonesia. It wouldn’t be sending fighters to Iraq; instead, Osama’s gang would be fighting them tooth and nail from Saudi Arabia to “Eurabia.”
In Asia, China would be the “Middle Kingdom,” gobbling up democratic Taiwan and compelling pacifist Japan (reluctantly) to join the nuclear weapons club. The Koreas might fight another horrific war, resulting in millions of deaths.
A resurgent Russia, meanwhile, would be breathing down the neck of its “near abroad” neighbors. Forget the democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, Comrade! In Europe, they’d be taking orders from Paris or Berlin — if those rivals weren’t at each other’s throats again.
In Africa, Liberia would still be under Charles Taylor’s sway, and Sudan would have no peace agreement.
And what other nation could or would provide freedom of the seas for commerce, including the shipment of oil and gas — all free of charge?
Weapons of mass destruction would be everywhere. North Korea would be brandishing a solid nuclear arsenal. Libya would not have given up its weapons, and Pakistan’s prodigious proliferator, A.Q. Khan, would still be going door to door, hawking his nuclear wares.
Also missing would be other gifts from “Uncle Sugar” — starting with 22 percent of the U.N. budget. That includes half the operations of the World Food Program, which feeds over 100 million in 81 countries.
Gone would be 17 percent of UNICEF’s costs to feed, vaccinate, educate and protect children in 157 countries — and 31 percent of the budget of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists more than 19 million refugees across the globe.
In 2005, Washington dispensed $28 billion in foreign aid, more than double the amount of the next highest donor (Japan), contributing nearly 26 percent of all official development assistance from the large industrialized countries.
Moreover, President Bush’s five-year $15 billion commitment under the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment by a single nation toward an international health initiative — ever — working in over 100 (mostly African) countries.
The United States is the world’s economic engine. We not only have the largest economy, we spend 40 percent of the world’s budget on R&D, driving mind-boggling innovation in areas like information technology, defense and medicine.
We’re the world’s ATM, too, providing 17 percent of the International Monetary Fund’s resources for nations in fiscal crisis, and funding 13 percent of World Bank programs that dole out billions in development assistance to needy countries.
And what does Uncle Sam get in return? Mostly grief, especially from all the ungrateful freeloaders who benefit tremendously from the global “public goods” we so selflessly provide with our time, effort, blood and treasure. How easily — and conveniently — they forget . . . unless they need help, of course.
But let us never forget, especially today, that despite the name-calling, the jeers, the petty jealousies, we’re the envy of the world — and rightfully so.
For all the worldwide whining and bellyaching about the United States, July 4th — America’s 230th birthday — provides an opportune time for them to consider for just a moment what the world might be like without good ol’ Uncle Sam.
The picture isn’t pretty. Absent U.S. leadership, diplomatic influence, military might, economic power and unprecedented generosity, life aboard planet earth would likely be pretty grim, indeed. Set aside the differences America made last century — just imagine a world where this country had vanished on Jan. 1, 2001.
On security, the United States is the global balance of power. While it’s not our preference, we are the world’s “cop on the beat,” providing critical stability in some of the planet’s toughest neighborhoods.
Without the U.S. “Globo-cop,” rivals India and Pakistan might well find cause to unleash the dogs of war in South Asia — undoubtedly leading to history’s first nuclear (weapons) exchange. Talk about Fourth of July fireworks . . .
In Afghanistan, al Qaeda would still be an honored guest, scheming over a global caliphate stretching from Spain to Indonesia. It wouldn’t be sending fighters to Iraq; instead, Osama’s gang would be fighting them tooth and nail from Saudi Arabia to “Eurabia.”
In Asia, China would be the “Middle Kingdom,” gobbling up democratic Taiwan and compelling pacifist Japan (reluctantly) to join the nuclear weapons club. The Koreas might fight another horrific war, resulting in millions of deaths.
A resurgent Russia, meanwhile, would be breathing down the neck of its “near abroad” neighbors. Forget the democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, Comrade! In Europe, they’d be taking orders from Paris or Berlin — if those rivals weren’t at each other’s throats again.
In Africa, Liberia would still be under Charles Taylor’s sway, and Sudan would have no peace agreement.
And what other nation could or would provide freedom of the seas for commerce, including the shipment of oil and gas — all free of charge?
Weapons of mass destruction would be everywhere. North Korea would be brandishing a solid nuclear arsenal. Libya would not have given up its weapons, and Pakistan’s prodigious proliferator, A.Q. Khan, would still be going door to door, hawking his nuclear wares.
Also missing would be other gifts from “Uncle Sugar” — starting with 22 percent of the U.N. budget. That includes half the operations of the World Food Program, which feeds over 100 million in 81 countries.
Gone would be 17 percent of UNICEF’s costs to feed, vaccinate, educate and protect children in 157 countries — and 31 percent of the budget of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists more than 19 million refugees across the globe.
In 2005, Washington dispensed $28 billion in foreign aid, more than double the amount of the next highest donor (Japan), contributing nearly 26 percent of all official development assistance from the large industrialized countries.
Moreover, President Bush’s five-year $15 billion commitment under the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment by a single nation toward an international health initiative — ever — working in over 100 (mostly African) countries.
The United States is the world’s economic engine. We not only have the largest economy, we spend 40 percent of the world’s budget on R&D, driving mind-boggling innovation in areas like information technology, defense and medicine.
We’re the world’s ATM, too, providing 17 percent of the International Monetary Fund’s resources for nations in fiscal crisis, and funding 13 percent of World Bank programs that dole out billions in development assistance to needy countries.
And what does Uncle Sam get in return? Mostly grief, especially from all the ungrateful freeloaders who benefit tremendously from the global “public goods” we so selflessly provide with our time, effort, blood and treasure. How easily — and conveniently — they forget . . . unless they need help, of course.
But let us never forget, especially today, that despite the name-calling, the jeers, the petty jealousies, we’re the envy of the world — and rightfully so.
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,104122,00.html
An excellent tribute to America, but I don’t think it goes back far enough in history. A world without America would be a world without England, France, Italy, Spain, China, The Philippines, Etc., Etc, Etc.
Europe needs to remember that America has pulled “Europe’s ass” out of the pages of history several times in the last century. I guess WORLD WAR I and WORLD WAR II are too far in the past for Europe to remember what America has done and what a world without Americans would mean.
world without America….sounds something missing from the heart of earth but without America the world can be imaginable.If America doesnot exist Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing was not happened.Now America dominating the world if they doesnot exist some other country will dominated and America was discovered couple of hundread years ago but the country grows more than other does in short time…
A lot of things would not happend if America did not exist. These are a few:
Set aside the differences America made last century – just imagine a world where this country had vanished on Jan. 1, 2001.
On security, the United States is the global balance of power. While it’s not our preference, we are the world’s “cop on the beat,” providing critical stability in some of the planet’s toughest neighborhoods.
Without the U.S. “Globo-cop,” rivals India and Pakistan might well find cause to unleash the dogs of war in South Asia – undoubtedly leading to history’s first nuclear (weapons) exchange. Talk about Fourth of July fireworks . . .
In Afghanistan, al Qaeda would still be an honored guest, scheming over a global caliphate stretching from Spain to Indonesia. It wouldn’t be sending fighters to Iraq; instead, Osama’s gang would be fighting them tooth and nail from Saudi Arabia to “Eurabia.”
In Asia, China would be the “Middle Kingdom,” gobbling up democratic Taiwan and compelling pacifist Japan (reluctantly) to join the nuclear weapons club. The Koreas might fight another horrific war, resulting in millions of deaths.
A resurgent Russia, meanwhile, would be breathing down the neck of its “near abroad” neighbors. Forget the democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, Comrade! In Europe, they’d be taking orders from Paris or Berlin – if those rivals weren’t at each other’s throats again.
In Africa, Liberia would still be under Charles Taylor’s sway, and Sudan would have no peace agreement.
(http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/07/a_world_without_america.html)
Yes, it’s true that world wide out America would have been totally different, there wont be any advance in technology, no advance in medicines, looking at the flip side no advance in weapon advancement, maybe there wont be nuclear weapon, Saddam Hussein would have still alive ruling Iraq. But who knows if there was no America there would have been another country which would did all those things.