I mean, the rate at which people are dying and becoming disabled due to covid can't be sustainable, can it? This country was running on fumes to begin with. Surely a country with an infamously terrible healthcare system, an economy that runs everything with as little margin for error as possible, and a government that has lost its ability to respond to any major disaster that can't be shot at cannot withstand this kind of catastrophe? What do you think things are going to look like five years from now?
Eh, the soviet union lost ¿30%? of its young population in WW2 and kept going.
Yeah but during that time period the USSR was run by communists who knew what they were doing, not geriatric neoliberals getting high on their own supply
As long as banks and industrial capitalists want the existence of such thing called "USA", it will keep going, the army will make sure of it cuz it's their loyal dog.
Will the US empire totally decline? Only if the third world rebels, but will it happen tho?
Despite being the perfect moment, the world giving the middle finger to anglos and europe might still not happen. In peripheral countries you have local oligarchs who are more than happy to be just imperial dogs, as long as they got a golden passport to snob around Europe/Miami on weekends :guaido: . Capitalism is resilient cuz a lot of people want to be small tyrants so they uphold higher tyrants, replicating the system below them, in tacit exchange of protection from the people below them.
If all the periphery just told say, the IMF, to fuck off, suddenly the US would be a lot "weaker". But you'd need spined politicians in the right place and time, a very rare thing.
Oh sure, you're definitely right that the inertia of capitalism and imperialism will keep the bloated corpse of the USA floating along for a long as it can — I'm just not convinced it could weather population loss the same as WWII-era USSR because its leadership seems to only be capable of accelerating the empire's decline and exacerbating hardship
Eh, did the Bengal famine actually bothered the British rule over that region?
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