I hope the collapse in the US is a million times worse than it ever was in the USSR. And I say that as a Canadian who expects much (though hopefully not all) of it to either be mirrored here in Canada, or close to it. The last things to go, after all (not the first) will be the military-industrial complex, the corporate-finance sectors here in the west, and the policing and mass incarceration sectors of the west- as we’re already seeing. Best to kill the beast of empire entirely and let something (or ideally, many somethings- a balkanized America is a better America) new emerge from the ashes, than let it go slowly, rabidly, and painfully.

The proposed solutions for collapse seem, funnily enough, nigh politically impossible, that said. The debts will never go away preemptively, same with the militarism, the prisons will stay full thanks to contractual obligations and widespread corruption till the state that legitimized said sentences goes entirely (and honestly I wouldn’t be surprised to see attempts to maintain the prison labor in many places- now even more reminiscent of plantation slavery in its essence- in the aftermath). The US would surely sooner nuke its own citizens than abandon the nuclear option entirely as well, and the first things whose funding will dry up (and are drying up) as the empire continues to decline are environmental and safety regulations, and the transition to renewable energy.

In other words- the opposite shall continue to happen, and the empire shall only head into worse preparedness for its wholly deserved collapse, as said collapse draws nearer. Inshallah