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The collapse of any nation will disrupt the world, and certainly one as big as the USA... Short term I dont think anyone will be happy and it willhurt many... long term, maybe it will be for the better, its hard to say. In my eyes America is in one of the worst states of all countries but other countries are just a hair behind us when it comes to self-destructive qualities... so it would not suprise me that if the USA collapsed it would cause a lot of other countries to collapse too.
My fear is the collapse of western societies might lead to a super power gaining control and makiing things much worse.
@freemo @Pat
> My fear is the collapse of western societies might lead to a super power gaining control and makiing things much worse.
That's for sure!
After the soviet collapse, many USSR allied nations has experienced the worst civil turmoil for decades!
As much as I dislike the USA foreign military and monetary policy, I hope for this decade these things get resolve peacefully.
We have all the technological and communication means to achieve that goal.
The multi polar world order is a realty, will the USA fight it or embrase it? That's what will determine the fate of the western societies!
Usually as far as I can tell societies tend to go into phases where everyone is basically bat-shit crazy.. They either bounce back and go back to sanity when they see how bad that is, or they collapse.
The usa is in the bat-shit crazy phase, so it will resolve one of two ways pretty quick and we will see a radical change. Lets just hope its not the direction of collapse.
>"My fear is the collapse of western societies might lead to a super power gaining control and makiing things much worse."
That scenario has already happened -- a superpower taking control and making things worse: The USSR collapsed, then there was a deep global recession. Bush raised taxes and poured a ton of money into Russia and other former Soviet states to keep them afloat.
Then the US was the sole superpower and the world watched to see what we would do. Would we be responsible stewards of the planet or abuse our power.
What we did was to rent out our military to the oil industry and launch a series of oil wars throughout the Middle East and launched a "war on terror" throughout northern and central Africa, leaving death and destruction everywhere. The world was watching; China was watching.
Then our leaders said that they were pivoting our gun turrets toward Asia. And we wonder why China suddenly stepped up their defense spending. What did you expect them to do after we just tore the Middle East a new one and openly said we were going after China next? Yeah, they did what any sane country would do. They are trying to defend themselves against the US.
Now the US is desperately trying to accelerate the timetable for WWIII so we can attack China before they have time to build up their military.
Abre los ojos.
@voidabyss
@Pat No option for “US has already collapsed, we are just refusing to believe it while the rich and multinational corporations extract every bit of wealth from the country’s corpse.”
@Pat Only took 4 years for the soviet union to collapse... so maybe. I would not be the least bit surprised if it did.