Most powerful political & economic entity for multiple decades.
Compromised by criminals since pre-federation times.
Massive spook underemployment after the spy war the cold war essentially was.
Mass ideological capture after CIA ops (etc.) during the cold war.
It's dead, Jim.
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I don't know if it'll burn, exactly. My hunch is US goes the way of the UK, blathers on about being the center of the world while everyone knows it's been supplanted.
Just a hunch, yet Brexit is 7 decades on from WW2, and that empire was long gone by the time that war had ended.
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Retains Wall Street and whatever else survives the impending death of the West Coast, but loses ability to really project force globally.
At best, does power brokering a la. UK through extensive web of connections with former subjects.
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Another, hilarious possibility is the US goes full left. The spooks lose the cold war, and the US becomes some sort of collectivist political entity.
That would have me tittering well into old age, were it to happen.
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I don't think this gives sufficient credence to the fact that most of the players who were relevant in establishing the current order are a decade at most from biting it (Kissinger, the immortal ghoul, excepted).
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I'll make you a bet.
Year from now, unless there's another major war (not just mission creep for the drone program, but troop deployments, sieges etc.), AOC is the most popular politician in the US.
Sheer tech acceleration in action.
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It's not about the bench as much as the state of play.
AOC is not remotely close to being the only threat to the established order. How many pieces do you need to take off the board before attrition kicks inc? A lot.
How many before someone else scores? Well, a lot fewer.
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You can keep putting up players, but if you're losing more plays than you're winning pretty soon it stops mattering, unless you can wipe the opposition entirely.
To be fair, they did that in the cold war. Not sure they could do it today.
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My exact point is that you need a spook establishment capable of actually controlling who can or can't be a candidate, or at least what they can or can't do.
Trump is being subverted at every turn, but I'm not sure that the way he's being subverted evinces a capable machine...
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