The death of an empire will not be pretty. When the Nazis fell, they took tens of millions with them. I fear to know how many the Americans will take with them when they in turn fall.
It is most probable that fascist paramilitaries and death squads will roam the countryside murdering anyone who they consider undesirables. Famine will grip the country as supply lines collapse due to the bombed out infrastructure. There will be a second Holocaust, committed not by a foreign power, but by Americans murdering other Americans. Tens of millions (in America alone) will die in the ensuing chaos, many from starvation, others from the paramilitaries.
America is simply too big for China to control. Too vast, too populous for any hope of a successful and bloodless occupation. There are 332,000,000 Americans. America is 9,100,000km2 in area. To occupy something that large would be madness, it would require China to commit tens of millions of troops for the sole purpose of a pointless occupation over a vast land of roaming insurgents. China will not commit tens of millions of Chinese to sacrifice their lives in a pointless excursion to hell-on-earth. It would be political suicide to even suggest so. China can really only watch in horror as everything unfolds.
It is incredibly unfortunate and I so wish it were otherwise, but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the American empire is the largest empire in all of history.
I've thought about it. A lot. But I'm an almost thirty year old, American, trans woman. I would forever be an outsider, a stranger in a land with an incredibly different culture, philosophical tradition, and even language than what I'm accustomed to.
I suppose Cuba would be the least foreign of the socialist nations for me to move to. As unlikely as that is, I wonder how difficult it would be?
Cuba's fairly mountainous, so my uneducated guess is that rising sea levels won't annihilate them (though the costal cities will still have a rough time).
I'd wager that rising temperature and humidity will be the primary threat there.
The death of an empire will not be pretty. When the Nazis fell, they took tens of millions with them. I fear to know how many the Americans will take with them when they in turn fall.
It is most probable that fascist paramilitaries and death squads will roam the countryside murdering anyone who they consider undesirables. Famine will grip the country as supply lines collapse due to the bombed out infrastructure. There will be a second Holocaust, committed not by a foreign power, but by Americans murdering other Americans. Tens of millions (in America alone) will die in the ensuing chaos, many from starvation, others from the paramilitaries.
America is simply too big for China to control. Too vast, too populous for any hope of a successful and bloodless occupation. There are 332,000,000 Americans. America is 9,100,000km2 in area. To occupy something that large would be madness, it would require China to commit tens of millions of troops for the sole purpose of a pointless occupation over a vast land of roaming insurgents. China will not commit tens of millions of Chinese to sacrifice their lives in a pointless excursion to hell-on-earth. It would be political suicide to even suggest so. China can really only watch in horror as everything unfolds.
It is incredibly unfortunate and I so wish it were otherwise, but the bigger they are, the harder they fall. And the American empire is the largest empire in all of history.
I need to leave this continent
中国. No better time to start learning how to defext than now
I've thought about it. A lot. But I'm an almost thirty year old, American, trans woman. I would forever be an outsider, a stranger in a land with an incredibly different culture, philosophical tradition, and even language than what I'm accustomed to.
I suppose Cuba would be the least foreign of the socialist nations for me to move to. As unlikely as that is, I wonder how difficult it would be?
I dunno, I am not even sure I like chinese culture but they have nerds there same as here. I'd comfortably fit in someplace just as poorly i think.
I had been thinking about cuba but I think it will sink into the sea soon.
Cuba's fairly mountainous, so my uneducated guess is that rising sea levels won't annihilate them (though the costal cities will still have a rough time). I'd wager that rising temperature and humidity will be the primary threat there.
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America is much more likely to fizzle out as a world power than collapse, Much more britain in the 40's than Iraq a decade or so ago
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