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    4 months ago

    This is the thing that blows my mind.

    How can anyone hope for a major global power, or worse a superpower, to collapse as a nation is beyond me.

    That won’t just affect the country itself like some kind of controlled demolition of a 3 floor building with subfloors for debris to sit nice and neat in.

    Do you honestly think the countries who spend the most on military budgets (especially the one that spends more than the next several combined) will sit back and not use any of their inflated budgets to lash out at surrounding countries, or even some other country across the world? especially when they do that in peace time anyway?

    When shit hits the fan, it goes everywhere.

    A country in collapse will have plenty of break off states/cities/territories whose occupants just commandeer the military equipment, and when that’s happening all over the country, it’s not going to be pretty.

    Imagine what Texas will do to Mexico when the federal government is no longer reining them in, their economy and ecology are collapsing, and they see a bunch of “free real estate” just across an imaginary line someone drew on a paper (or river)

    I don’t want Russia to collapse. That will not be good for anyone in Russia, or the surrounding nations.

    A lot of tankies weren’t alive when the Soviet union collapsed, and it shows.