• Owl [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Gotta define collapse.

    The domestic system of governance? Already collapsing.

    The ability of the state to project military power? A decade or two for most of the world, an extra decade for South America.

    A formal entity called the United States with structure derived from its constitution? Could be a thousand years.

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      A formal entity called the United States with structure derived from its constitution? Could be a thousand years.

      My pet theory is that the US will eventually go the way of the HRE. Just like there was an emperor, there's going to be a president in Washington DC for centuries to come. He's going to be a very important person who'll have soldiers in fancy uniforms saluting him, but the centre of real political power will have moved somewhere else.