It’s likely that at some point a lot of people who work and have worked hard will simply leave the country and emigrate to countries like Panama, Costa Rica, small countries with little bureaucracy. After taking their money, manpower, and skills out of the country, the government will likely end up supporting an entire welfare nation that will go bankrupt and there won’t be anyone to start/run/build businesses since no one will want their businesses in the US because of taxation, forced AA, and other similar things.
THen the US will completely collapse and be left out of future business/diplomatic/military alliances and treaties, business or otherwise.
Or we collapse all right...then the wrong sort of people get into power...say a Julius Ceasar type and we become Rome. With nuclear bombs, lazers and space technology...the country gets realigned along fascist principles and the enviros get snuffed out. We thumb our noses at international debts and re-organize businesses along NAZI type lines and all of our resources then start to get retapped...but we will no longer be a republic...but perhaps a terrible beast that “rises out of the sea”
A society like ours that collapses...but still in possession of Nuclear weapons and feeling cornered like a rat...Canada and Mexico would then be the first to be swallowed up by us when we go truly imperialist!
Not so farfetched...Biden spoke of our troops being a part of “peace enforcement missions” in many parts of the world during the debates. And why in the name of banana’s do we have a “US African Command military structure? We have military all over this world in various strengths, numbers and missions. Play upon Americans’ desparation and these various military structures suddenly become like strategically placed chess pieces ready to strike...especially if the “wrong sort” of evil person takes over. This person will not be a dumb as rock Obama, but perhaps unearthly intelligent and inexorably magnetic...
Yes our nation could collapse, but it still has power to project force and still with a crash build progam rebuild its infrastructure...the question is...can enough good people come together to ensure our nation remains a republic? Or do we bcome the nightmare of the entire world? That is what I really fear and I really fear that an unearthly sort of person will take advantage of our fears, lack of faith, and weakness!