Depends where, really. I could see left wing revolution in France or Germany, the US probably right, but not guaranteed. If anything cool happened they'd try to co-opt it, but i don't know if it would stick. IMO, if things started really popping off in the US it would be Balkanization time. The minute the US government collapses it would be 1980s Lebanon on steroids with different factions vying for control of nukes. Actually, the more I think about it, the impending demise of the US empire has about a 50/50 chance of being an extinction level event for humanity.
I would think that a military junta of some sort would be far more likely than any sort of balkanization. They've got more money than god, they depend on a countrywide web of manufacturing, and they don't have anything close to the divisions of 1980s Lebanon. Unfortunately, you're probably right either way on that nuke chance, no way some psycho doesn't immediately go for a MacArthur moment and nuke China
Depends where, really. I could see left wing revolution in France or Germany, the US probably right, but not guaranteed. If anything cool happened they'd try to co-opt it, but i don't know if it would stick. IMO, if things started really popping off in the US it would be Balkanization time. The minute the US government collapses it would be 1980s Lebanon on steroids with different factions vying for control of nukes. Actually, the more I think about it, the impending demise of the US empire has about a 50/50 chance of being an extinction level event for humanity.
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I would think that a military junta of some sort would be far more likely than any sort of balkanization. They've got more money than god, they depend on a countrywide web of manufacturing, and they don't have anything close to the divisions of 1980s Lebanon. Unfortunately, you're probably right either way on that nuke chance, no way some psycho doesn't immediately go for a MacArthur moment and nuke China