Re: John Titor Debate!
The idea of the United States collapsing into an anarchistic mess really isn't that far fetched. It fact, it's nearly inevitable. The world has been positioning the U.S. for the greatest fall of all time, and no one seems to know it. As the Soviet Union declined, the new international economy took shape around the dominant power, the U.S. But, while the U.S. remained prosperous, rich, and powerful thourghout this time, it did not control the keys to its own destiny, which lie in the halls of international finance. The reigns lay in the hands of China and Europe, the controllers of the world's largest issuers of bonds to U.S. companies and government institutions. Instead of using these bonds as a choke hold, the international banks have allowed the U.S. to gorge itself on economic growth, becoming the wealthiest nation ever to exist, with most of its riches stored away in intangible monetary funds and bonds that are easily transferred from one database to another. Now, as the U.S. grew, the banks shaped our growth, taking away manufacturies and infrastructure, making the U.S. more and more a place where people buy and sell themselves into oblivion, nothing more, giving us nothing but more money in return. A country that grows weaker daily should experience more stress than we have, especially as their currency devalues, but the Dollar has remained strong and stable for 1 reason, the Petrodollar. When the international banks, the same ones who issued all those bonds to the U.S., tell OPEC their credit rating depends on their ability to switch to a PetroEuro or PetroYen standard, and also decide this is a convenient time to pull the rug from under the U.S. debt structure... chaos seems like an understatement. The U.S. government will be forced to choose between defying the will of the world that they should die in order to shield its people from utter economic collapse, or accept its fate as the ultimate mark and have its pockets emptied, permanently. It would be permanent, too. With our currency on par with the Peso, our stock market crashed, with every instution broke and unable to find new credit, with the trillions in investment capitol the banks just received to buy out the valuable commodity of technological patents, brand names, and corporate bodies from the desperate, debt-ridden Americans, nothing would be able to pull us out of the depression that would ensue. One of John's comments was that the U.S. has 0 friends in the near and distant future, this seems like a decent reason to me.