@rosstaylor. If that happens, In this day and age where I believe many American soldiers look at their pay more than their objective in the military I hope that when many of these soldiers realize the US is sinking and the Government has nothing valuable to offer, they will not follow orders. As for private military contractors.
2013 - Hyperinflation ensues in all first-world countries simultaneously. Riots ensue. To quell them the US government nukes Beijing, New York City, Los Angeles, London, Moscow, Paris, and Tokyo simultaneously (with state officials being given the warning and taking shelter beforehand.) Martial Law is declared elsewhere. A world coalition Government forms and declares worldwide martial law. Private property is abolished.
2020 - All human beings are outfitted with a chip in their brains used for thought monitoring, information dispersal, and identification. To save resources on policing, the chip kills any person who has any feelings of guilt. The world population drops massively instantly. Breeding programs are forced onto survivors.
2040 - All remnants of emotion and empathy have been stamped out of the human race by (un)natural selection due to the GUILT project. The chips are enhanced to allow telepathic communication and commands, effectively turning all of humanity into a giant superorganism. The one-mind names itself Dyeus and uses its new superintellect to build an army to take over the universe.
2070 - All physical matter in the universe is effectively destroyed as Dyeus unbinds all the protons and neutrons and forms all the quarks into himself, making him essentially one giant composite particle. Dyeus continues to persist for the rest of eternity, a master of nothing.
I wonder how well that would sell as a movie script. Maybe if you include some nudity? lol
I can actually see this happening. Martial law is actually now enforceable in the US, look up John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007. Yes, there will be worldwide inflation because many central banks in the world are now printing astronomical amount of money, and I believe this is probably only time in world history that everyone is doing it - thanks to Keynes. I hope everyone will burn Keynes’ books, we’ll all have a Freedom Bonfire one day, us Austrians. I’ll pay for the matches. Bring beef and Belgian beer.
Let’s just hope our cool heads will prevail.
There’s no way the United States will disintegrate within 10 years. There’s way too many power players and money involved. Still, I fully expect the economy to go through another recession around 2012 and then maybe a depression in the near future. It’s going to get ugly before it gets better, but if anything, I expect the United States to see a large reduction in global influence and power.
The Russians didn’t think that their Soviet Empire would disintegrate so quickly either. There are way too much liabilities on the country’s balance sheet, and from the looks from it, they are not planning to do anything in the near future. These problems will come and hit us the face before we know it.
We won’t get better unless we stop stimulating the economy and spending like there’s no tomorrow. The real question you have to ask is how long will the world keep the US dollar as a world reserve currency. The Russian and Chinese are already discussing what to replace the dollar with, along with some other countries. Although, as of right now, there is no good alternative. Maybe within 5 years time is much more accurate, I think.