4kumu Posted:

While I don’t believe the United States will break up into separate parts, I am curious to see how things play out. In the 1930’s and 1970’s we actually were very close to a nonviolent type of revolt where taxpayers refused to pay. With the value of the dollar unstable, but cost of government high the similar cirgreat timesstances are there to form an uprising. Improvements in economic conditions, further government aid, and threats eventually prevented a severe uprising. The single greatest point I could find was in Prof. Panarin’s claim in the American public’s hope placed in Obama. Millions of Americans currently grasp at the hope that he can make everything better when in reality he is only a man who executes the power of the government as delegated by congress. However even with that in mind, at worst I can only figure general dissatisfaction would continue should he fail until the next election.

However what really happens to the United States, whether its citizens like it or not, is something I look forward to discovering as whatever it is occurs. Prof Panarin’s bumumption that the downfall of the Soviet Union is a trend that the United States is vulnerable to, is quite a stretch. After all, the Soviet Union and the United States were too completely different economies and government types and really cant be properly compared on those two levels. While I cant fully subscribe to a similar collapse, I cant rule out that it wont happen as it isn’t looking like the rest of the major world powers are hurting tremendously from our economic instability. Its not like the Great Depression where we dragged the rest of the world into a depression as most of the major world powers now are quite self sufficient without our money. All I know for sure is that some of the world still relies on our consumption of their products, and if we go down we will be taking a few countries with us a few pegs at the very least.

I think we will be taking more than a few countries down with us.

Israel of course goes without saying. If anything happens to the U.S., they are screwed economically and politically.

Also many European economies invested heavily in the U.S. and were invested into heavily by U.S. capital. They should be affected. They wont collapse completely but they will feel the pain.

Also, Middle Easter oil exporters, especially the ones that pegged their own currencies to the U.S. dollar, will fall like flies.

But that is IF the U.S. suffers something akin to the Great Depression. I am not ruling that out, but it is quite unlikely.