Yes I know this is mostly unthinkable for most of us….but with all the division, hatred and confusion is it possible the US could collapse like the Soviet Union?

A little background for my younger readers….

The once ‘powerful’ USSR, Soviet Union, was in place from 1917 and then at the closing years of the 20th century upheaval and political tension the broke apart sending there sphere of influence into chaos….this break-up began in 1991….

There is a website, The Conversation, that has asked this same question and did a deep dive into the implications…

“You’re next,” said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union’s collapse in late 1991. I was an American student in St. Petersburg, and he was referring to the United States.

His argument was informed by a pseudo-scientific demographic theory that would eventually find favour in the Kremlin, but more remarkable to me then was the hopefulness with which he spoke.

If this man is still alive, he must be feeling vindicated. America’s current retreat from its engagements around the world — from gutting USAid to abandoning European allies — constitutes a surrender of power comparable in living memory only to Mikhail Gorbachev’s unilateral withdrawals from Afghanistan, Eastern Europe and elsewhere between 1988 and 1991 — right before the Soviet Union’s collapse.

Accompanying both foreign policy about-faces, we can’t miss profound shifts in the two states’ ideological foundations.

As long as his sacredness remained unquestioned, referring to Lenin could legitimize a range of policies and actions. Viewing Lenin through a historical lens, however, called his sacredness into question. It consequently became impossible for Soviet citizens to agree on what policies and actions were legitimate. This crisis of meaning allowed chronic political, economic and social problems to suddenly to become devastating.

America’s master signifier is its Constitution, reverentially enshrined in Washington, D.C., rather like Lenin’s body is in Moscow. Under President Donald Trump, however, violations of the Constitution have become routine, and the federal government’s legislative branch has shown little will to guard its powers from executive encroachment. Like Lenin under Gorbachev, it seems that the sacred centre of America’s political system has become destabilized.

https://theconversation.com/will-the-u-s-collapse-like-the-soviet-union-did-250212

This is a fascinating piece and should be read if one is truly looking for answer to the current situation in the US.

As usual….I am not endorsing anything at all….I just think that all aspects of the happenings in the US and any possible ideas about the future, if one is interested in the future, should be looked and understood.

Please if you have anything constructive or in opposition keep it simple and civil.

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