Balkanization would be good for the rest of the world, but the individual smaller states it breaks into would be fucking horrifying places to exist in. Chud countries doing their own white terrors and neolib wastelands run by Amazon.
Actually yeah, I'm being overly optimistic about the benefit of the US State collapsing while many of the people here are still largely business and military cultists. They'd probably recreate the same overall military presence but more unstable and potentially more belligerent than what we see now.
All the U.S. military hardware wouldn’t just disappear.
A lot of it would quite quickly fall into disrepair due to funding issues and the fact that factories for components are deliberately spread out between states for pork reasons.
Basically it'll be like how the Russian federation isn't nearly the military power that the USSR was.
A lot of it would fall into disrepair, but a balkanized U.S. would presumably still involve trade between its constituent parts, and there would be ample opportunities for political leaders to fearmonger. A good chunk would keep chugging or get rebuilt.
I agree, but going back to the collapse of the USSR, the CIS states still traded heavily with each other, but a lot of stuff fell into disrepair.
The big difference I can foresee is that there won't be one clear strongest successor nation (like the Russian federation was to the USSR) so all the new countries will hang onto any nukes that they hold.
Balkanization would be good for the rest of the world, but the individual smaller states it breaks into would be fucking horrifying places to exist in. Chud countries doing their own white terrors and neolib wastelands run by Amazon.
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Actually yeah, I'm being overly optimistic about the benefit of the US State collapsing while many of the people here are still largely business and military cultists. They'd probably recreate the same overall military presence but more unstable and potentially more belligerent than what we see now.
Amazon's private army is going to have robots so I know which side I am on.
And it's frankly unbelievable that shit wouldn't spill over into Latin America at least. All the U.S. military hardware wouldn't just disappear.
A lot of it would quite quickly fall into disrepair due to funding issues and the fact that factories for components are deliberately spread out between states for pork reasons.
Basically it'll be like how the Russian federation isn't nearly the military power that the USSR was.
A lot of it would fall into disrepair, but a balkanized U.S. would presumably still involve trade between its constituent parts, and there would be ample opportunities for political leaders to fearmonger. A good chunk would keep chugging or get rebuilt.
I agree, but going back to the collapse of the USSR, the CIS states still traded heavily with each other, but a lot of stuff fell into disrepair.
The big difference I can foresee is that there won't be one clear strongest successor nation (like the Russian federation was to the USSR) so all the new countries will hang onto any nukes that they hold.