The US Can Collapse from Financial Deficit

What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union? Very simple. Financial deficits.

President Reagan had a simple strategy. He said we will challenge the military might of the Soviet Union by building up our own. They will react by similar increases and we will continue to escalate. Eventually, they will go broke. They will have a tremendous military and nothing else. Conversely we in the US will also have a tremendous military, but we will still be financially alive. It came to pass.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, it broke up into individual states, such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, etc.

Can the same thing happen here in the US? Without doubt. The US is in financial deficit for a different reason, but continuing to pursue this course will lead to the same bankruptcy as a military course did in the Soviet Union. We will break up into individual states, some of which will be able to continue their governmental existence because of innate assets, such as oil. Other states will be in complete deprivation, with subsequent riots, killing, etc. I suspect some of the Northeast states would be the first in that second group. They have little natural resources, little agriculture, little manufacturing capability, and large populations.

Can it all be avoided? Yes. If we take the present painful approach of getting deficits under control. The alternative will be dissolution of the US into its states, with complete devastation in some of those states.