I think the difficulty of systemic change is oversold as often as it's undersold.
Realistically, it's sufficient for the current US system to collapse, provided the right people manage to seize the momentum.
But the US is such a crazy place, it's hard to predict how it'd go.
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Yep. Predicting anything post-transition is a mugs game.
As pointless as predicting timing.
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The other thing is, when you look at places like the ex-Soviet bloc, these countries all got neoliberalized into new types of shitholes, in spite of their revolutions.
But the US was the primary agent of that neoliberalization. What happens if it collapses? Who subverts *that*?
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One thing's for sure, though:
If people like Bezos don't already have plans for drone armies, they're not playing the long game.
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Drone armies and seasteds/succession and neofuedal sovereignty.
Or just hire Blackwater as their defence department.
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Blackwater will be laughably insufficient.
Is there any country in the world with as much accumulated combat experience and sheer mass of lethal individuals as the US?
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Yeah, yeah, I didn't say you're all combat veterans. But even you know how to shoot.
I can only name one or two people I know from outside the US who'd be comfortable (practically speaking) firing a rifle at a moving target.
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Hell, I don't have the first idea how to fire a weapon without injuring myself, and I'm not exactly a pacifist.
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it's not that hard, despite people making a big deal out of it. Oh, to be good takes practice, but the basics are pretty basic.
Whole point of firearms is they de-skill fighting so any lump can do it.
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Yah, but you still have a volume, training and access issue.
E.g. in Poland, in the event of civil disintegration, only the army, cops and a couple others would have any guns at all before they start dropping them in.
In Norway, surprisingly, we have loads and loads.
not surprising. Until recently Norway was a rural country, and rural/wilderness is still close and easily available.
Canada has almost as many guns as the US. Lot less military weapons, of course.
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Yeah, makes sense.
Similar story on the weapons. AR enthusiasts do exist, but it takes permits out the ass, secure storage, last I checked you had to either be an infantry reservist or actually *use* your weapons regularly... etc.
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