Byzantium was in decline for seven centuries until the Ottomans pulled the plug. Rome was in decline for several centuries prior to its sacking.
Climate change and the accompanying plagues, droughts, famines, and calamities that accompany it might accelerate and exacerbate the state's capacity and willingness to respond to these crises, but all it might mean is that this is a new normal added to the reproleterization of American life.
I don't really have a point but it is just a thought that I (perhaps others) are going to have to accept that future, and that is a kind of new world I am unsure as to how to adapt to.
For us, sure. But it would be a net positive for the rest of the world unless we murder-suicide a few countries on the way out.
Hard to imagine something like that being a clean little implosion within our own borders.
Yeah there's really no good way out of this.
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There's still a sliver of hope, but that's all it is -- a sliver. I suppose you have to fight for that and steel yourself for the more likely outcomes.
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We have more than a dozen nuclear-armed submarines out at sea right now, each with the capability to essentially destroy a continent. The collapse of this empire doesn't end well for anyone.
Libs always play the existence of previous apocalyptic feelings like a trump card about left overreaction, but European Christians approaching 1000AD didn't have weapons that could wipe out humanity.
Posadism when