(August 7, 2014 at 12:39 am)bberryhill0 Wrote: British Petroleum, Dutch Royal Shell. Yup those must be U.S. companies.They operate at American sufferance, and are allowed to benefiting incidentally from a system designed by America and for the benefits of America multinationals because their home countries belong to the American block.
The fundamental difference to be expected from the world in 2050, as compared to the western world since WWII, and much of the rest of the world since end of Cold War, is America will no longer be the premier power everywhere in the world. There will be powers broadly equal or even superior to us across the spectrum, with their own multinationals gunning for ours. Their multinationals won't have our sufferance, but will have the backing of their countries. Soon if these multinationals would each known on which side is there toast buttered, and while they might still operate in many countries, they won't really be multinationals anymore.
