[I am Surak]

Timo wrote:

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It's also possible that a Starfleet existed in some form or another long before Archer's Starfleet was founded. After all, the same holds true for Kirk's Starfleet...

I wouldn't be at all surprised if the United States had a Starfleet in the 2010s in the Trek universe!

Well said Timo. When Roddenberry created our universe 2010 was very far into the future. Many science fiction movies of the time were set in the 1980s.
I surely anticipated that by 2010 I would own a flying car and go on regular vacations on Mars.....