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A threads post saying “There has never been another nation ever that has existed much beyond 250 years. Not a single one. America’s 250th year is 2025. The next 4 years are gonna be pretty interesting considering everything that’s already been said.” It has a reply saying “My local pub is older than your country”.
Edit: swapped image link, RIP lemm.ee
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Those are not nations in the modern sense. Modern Turkey and Egypt have only been around since after WWI. Byzantium hasn’t been a nation since they were conquered by the Ottomans.
The post doesn’t say existing nations, it says there has never been one longer than 250 years.
How do you define a nation? Rome, Byzantium, the Ottoman empire, etc., those were all empires. You can debate whether you want to consider them nations.
The US is an empire unless indigenous peoples don’t count