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Godot51

(571 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 06:56 PM Jul 22

The Future Is Now

This failure of an administration is basically setting up a near future "Balkanization" of the United States in which we separate into 50 or more independent, self-reliant "states" or coalesce into temporary clusters of bordering areas depending upon local politics, needs, and desires.

The cohesion created by the Federal, central government will be discarded and the U.S. will need to be disarmed, demilitarized, and rendered impotent. Who will do this? Not the U.N. Perhaps a combination of Asian and European powers?

Perhaps foreign interests and current world powers, such as China, Japan, Europe, and the oil producing nations, as well as the emerging future world powers, such as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the middle and south African nations, will finance, support, and control vital natural resources, products, and population centers.

Canada and Mexico may have to tighten their borders, build walls and limit the number of economic, political, and racial refugees that may be admitted.

It may sound like a dystopian science fiction novel but it may arrive sooner than we expect while we lie safe huddled in our cocoons of pseudo-freedom, AI fantasy, and propaganda foolishness.

This idea was first mentioned, to my knowledge, in the book Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.

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The Future Is Now (Original Post) Godot51 Jul 22 OP
Putin's long time goal has been the balkanization of the US. Irish_Dem Jul 22 #1

Irish_Dem

(72,736 posts)
1. Putin's long time goal has been the balkanization of the US.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 07:08 PM
Jul 22

He blamed the US for the collapse of the USSR and vowed revenge.
His goal was to break up the US into 50 nation states.
And to render the US weak and impotent.

Yes the federal government held the US together.
And the three separate branches of government and the US constitution.
We were a nation of laws, and an ideas of freedom and democracy.

All of that has and will continue to be destroyed.
All collapsing in front of our eyes.

Yes we have the most powerful military in the world, a huge stash of nuclear warheads.
What will happen to them as the US collapses?

Hopefully other countries can contain the US.

Yes there will be more US refugees to other countries.
The science and medical communities are leaving now.
More will follow.
Can the world take us all in?

I don't know.

Your comments are not dystopian fantasy but based on solid facts.

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