What exactly do you expect to happen to the roughly 35% of Americans living adjacent to the poverty line, by IMF standards mind you.

Everyone knows the statistic that 70% of American doesn’t have a spare 500 dollars, which is literally nothing here. That’s slightly over a months worth of food for a family; it’s not even an entire months rent for most states.

I read this reply, then just moved on. Because I really hoped it was a joke, just a bit of satire I wasn’t picking up on that would make sense to me later. But no, it seems you’re serious.

Your stance here is pure idealism, I can’t even be nice about it. I was always taught to STFU when I can’t think of anything nice to say, so I’ll try my best to not insult you. but, boy howdy that’s a horribly dangerous worldview. It entirely lacks materialism.

The US economy is firmly rooted in a large portion of the world. American Liberalism has been a guiding beacon for a lot of that portion of the world too. There are a lot of countries that haven’t been able to progress because the United States has been such a hegemony that it’s impossible to do anything that goes against American will. Bolivia and Venezuela haven’t been able to work towards Socialism, Korea hasn’t been able to unify, etc.

We can firmly say the collapse of the United States will devastate the European Union, of which many of the major members are indebted to the US. Once the US dollar is rendered obsolete, the value of every currency based on USD will crash. Which happens to be, dare I say, the currencies of almost all of the US’s allies and economic partners. If a series of wars and revolutions don’t happen in Europe as a result of this, I’d eat my hat.

The US is seen as the backbone of NATO, all of NATO’s campaigns will be forced to grind to a halt due to a lack of funding, the possibility of the remaining NATO nations needing their militaries for other pursuits, and other potential factors, likely causing power vacuums in the third world, which themselves will likely cause civil wars.

The bottom line, without the US being able to either support economies, or prevent political movements from gaining support (mind you, I’m not saying I support that, I’m just stating the fact that the US has been manipulating political forces worldwide), a lot of the world is going to have political turmoil too. It will, very likely, be more than China can handle. It will, again very likely, entirely change world maps. It’s highly likely the death of the United States will spell the end of global capitalism, which will radicalize the pro-capitalist forces into fascist ones, and inspire an age of revolutions.

Perhaps there will be a time of unprecedented peace after the US is gone, but it’s very unrealistic to believe the events directly following the event will be anything near peaceful. A lot of good can come from this, but it’s more or less promised that a lot of bad will have to come first. People who live in the Imperial core are going to have a really rough time, the only way a person can believe anything else is if they’re an idealist, who think pixies and unicorn farts are all you need to have lasting peace.