The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next
The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next
We are facing the end of 'the West'. Some of our best science shows the US empire is following the collapse-path of the USSR - but this is also the precursor to the emergence of a new life-cycle for civilisation.
I sure hope so and hope its takes Israel, and a number of Arab governments, down with it. As someone who used to believe in the myth I am bitter and disgusted by what the US really is and always has been.
I couldn't get very far through this briar-patch of buzz-words. But the collapse of the Soviet Union was brought about by material economic conditions, not by jumping up and down on their own dicks the way America is handling it.
I suspect the apt model for America's future is the British Empire.
jumping up and down on their own dicks
Bravo sir.
They are kinda doing a version of shock therapy on themselves though. (On their own dick.)
Ever read Walkaway by Cory Doctorow? I hope it's like that.
When you look down at others instead of helping lift other up nobodt cares when you implode. I'm VERY sad for the regular non crazy american, you guys are the real victims.
No, the real victims are the children who were killed in a hospital or school bombing by the US. If the US is terminally weakened it may be less capable of bombing schools and hospitals halfway across the world.
We've hsd a long time to fix things, but we chose to be "civil" instead.
Only cuz they rigged the game against us
What comes the next? In Europe will be 2 unions: Eastern European and EU (Western European).
wouldnt it make more sense if russia split into 2 instead? I think there might be something brewing there, especially if the war ends at some point and all those abused soldiers come back home
I may be wrong, but this is what the prophecy of Revelation says. About the 10 horns and the beast, as well as Ezekiel's prophecy about the unification of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel under one king. It should be understood that the EU is a colonial country and a descendant of the Holy Roman Empire, and later the Habsburg Empire. Before the Byzantine conquest, Eastern Europe was one country (from the Danube to the Don and the Caspian Sea, and from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea). And now this unification is happening before our eyes. This is an incredible event.
Oooh what ballet/music will be played nationally when the us collapses?
It was swan lake for the USSR right?
I'm kinda hoping it's green day's American Idiot but that may be a bit on the nose
An Weird Al parody called "America, Fuck No!"
There is nothing on-the-nose enough that it won't be lost on at least 40% of us.
It will be something tone deaf yet in retrospect poetic. Maybe something like this?
I vote "End of the Empire I-III" by Arcade Fire.
It'll more likely be a Kid Rock or Ted Nugent concert. Or simply five hours of topless Putin riding on a horse.
Trump is a huge fan of Cats, so maybe they'll play that?
I could see him doing that, but I think it would go more like this... https://youtu.be/saY10AWXLIY?start=34
According to Ted Turner, it's "Nearer, My God, to Thee".
The over-reliance on "entrepreneurism" is what got us here, and the harping on it in this article irks me; other than that, it's a good read.
you mean "the american dream" lol
What comes next is Trump will go nuts and start walking around naked and MAGAts will celebrate by doing the same.
A 21st century retelling of "The emperors new clothes", where the emperor is also an influencer and sends people who warns about his nakedness to a dungeon in another kingdom.
What happened to the super rich people from USSR when it collapsed?
There weren't really many super rich people in the USSR. There were people with a lot of influence and power, who had nicer houses, better food, clothes, etc. but very few had a tons of money stashed away. You have to remember that Stalin and many of his followers viewed capitalism as the root of all evil and would imprison or kill rich people.
And many of those influential people used that power after the fall to become super rich by snapping up former state assets. Which is seemingly part of their current goal in the US: Isolate the country and destroy government assets to privatize them. Literally trying to recreate the situation that created the 90s Russian oligarchs.
Ah fuck. It's gonna be religious cults that do all that. The LDS and Scientologists already have lots of properties and oceans of assets to leverage for it, as well as the only sense of community most Americans ever experience.
Highly influential people who where loyal to Gorbachev: Purged and often imprisoned after the coup attempt.
Highly influential people who were loyal to Yeltsin: Oligarchs.
They literally bought the country from everybody else for scraps.
Who gives a fuck. Let them sink
because like it or not our boat is your boat too
Recession, have you all not been paying attention?
