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This weekly thread will focus on The Future Of The USA. You may not be American (I'm sure not), but what happens with America can impact the world.
Some Starters (and don’t feel you have to speak on all or any of them if you don’t care to):
- How do you feel things are going there?
- How are they impacting relations with your country if you aren't from America?
- Do you think things will get better or worse?
- How do you think things could be made better?
- What should other countries do to mitigate the damage that may be occurring?
- What are your thoughts on tariffs?
I called this in July of 2016 when Trump won the GOP nomination. I said, "Historians will mark this day as the beginning of the dissolution of the united states of America." People actually laughed at me.
IMO things have set in motion that cannot be stopped.
Here's my predictions.
Millions of Americans are going to die. Be it starvation, hospitals shutting down, or catastrophic weather events with no federal response.
California will bypass the federal government and fund agencies like FEMA directly. This will trigger a mass restructuring of the fiscal relationship between the states and the federal government.
As the USA divests itself from steel and semiconductor supply chains, backbone companies like Apple and Lougheed Martin will leave the USA for the EU.
In the short term agriculture and domestic manufacturing will plummet. In the long term, a crashing US dollar and real estate market will incentivize foreign investment into those industries.
Trump will die in office. (I think he wants to die in office, at this point.) His succession will be a disaster and result in a DNC government. His backers will allow this because all they cared about was eliminating POCs and stealing the publics money. Their agenda will be right on schedule.
Without it's supply chains and military contractors, the USA will eventually lose military dominance to China. The companies and their supply chains will migrate to EU & Commonwealth countries; who will form a military pack to counter China (& to a lesser degree Russia)
Canada will replace the USA in leading the global economy. The CAD will become a world reserve currency. Unlike the EU Canada is geographically better positioned to export globally. As Canadian energy and agriculture exports increase so will the incentive for foreign governments to hold CAD.
Climate Change will catastrophically interrupt the global food supply in North America; as well as drastically increase energy requirements and trigger mass population displacement. This will accelerate the "switcheroo" of US & Canada on the world economic stage.
The aging populations in developed nations will set the stage for developing countries, with growing populations, to gain much more leverage dealing with their more developed trading partners. USA & China will trade infrastructure investments for the agriculture and manufacturing they can no longer sustain domestically. Foreign investment from developing countries into developed countries will trend.
The next 'Pandemic' will technically remain an "epidemic" because air travel and global tourism will be a fraction of what it is now. Due to steel supply interruptions and manufacturer relocations, airlines will lack the fleets and budgets to maintain the service levels we see now.
MAGA will replace the KKK and it will never completely go away unfortunately.