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The with the germans? >> once again our two harvard professors see things through different lenses. here's joseph nye. do you think that there is a historical pattern here, the british empire once ruled the world and over time, declined. is america in britain's place? >> no. i think that's over simplified. as one historian put it, britain ruling the world from a little island off the coast of europe was like an oak tree in a potted palm container. it was unnatural. the united states is basically in demographic terms very, very different from britain in an economic scale, different if total con...
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