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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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Disagree. The CIA pretty much had to murder and subvert and subject their way through the entire US left to take them out during the cold war. Their ops against the left were far more effective than their ops against the commies, and it shows, but when your architects die...
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Sorry to say, but I think a US take on collectivism would be just about as deranged as the Soviet and Chinese ones have been.
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