They just would have traded soft power for hard power anyways. I’ve always been the opinion that entropy comes to every civilization, and it never lasts forever. The US did the correct thing by creating a stronger central government in order to stave off that entropy. Was it a good thing? No. But it was the best of a bad situation. The articles of confederation made the US way to decentralized.
China wouldn’t be where it is today if if weren’t for the US federal government.
They just would have traded soft power for hard power anyways. I’ve always been the opinion that entropy comes to every civilization, and it never lasts forever. The US did the correct thing by creating a stronger central government in order to stave off that entropy. Was it a good thing? No. But it was the best of a bad situation. The articles of confederation made the US way to decentralized.