I get that collapse is a slow ongoing process but when the history books are written, what do you think will be considered the US’ own Battle of Ravenna? What will occur that historians can point to it and say, “this was the effective end of the American empire.” ?
US tries regime change in Saudi Arabia, fails obviously which starts an oil war with OPEC. Oil becomes so expensive the global economy goes into a great crash 5x worse than 2020. Because of pure ideology the US refuses to put a price control on fuel/food. Cool zone happens.