The cracks are showing. The US empire is in decay. What will the world look like once it’s no longer able to bully everyone? What do we have to look forward to both inside and outside the imperial core?

  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
    11·
    2 days ago

    We are witnessing the death throes of a wounded animal with suicidally inflated ego.

    Unfortunately, this wounded animal also has nuclear weapons, so it’s a very dangerous time for all of us.

    So we agree on what is going to happen?

    • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      So we agree on what is going to happen?

      Well nobody knows the future but the times are extremely dangerous. I’m not personally yet seeing signs that the logic of MAD is failing, but things could change very quickly, especially if there was a direct hot war and US forces were facing humiliating defeat.

      I think our best hope lies in incompetence exceeding malevolence… Hardly comforting

        • subversive_dev@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          22 hours ago

          I totally agree that strategic missile defense technology is very destabilizing and dangerous. However like always, the enemy gets a vote.

          Myself and others believe that in developing and announcing these weapon systems the Russians have achieved their goal of restoring their nuclear deterrent.

          On that basis I would agree that I think tactical nukes would be the way the taboo is broken if it happens in our present cycle of instability.