Could the United States Federal Government Collapse?
The short answer is “yes.” Let’s look at a recent example of empire destruction. In 1985, the Soviet Union started to collapse. They had a gigantic military budget and were bogged down in a war in Afghanistan. Their economy had become stagnant and had significantly diminished. They had international commerce trade deficits. Unemployment was skyrocketing. Oil prices had plummeted. Mikhail Gorbachev instituted “glasnost,” or openness, making it easier for dissent to occur. By 1991, many of the 15 “Republics” had openly revolted against the central government. The Soviet Union was bankrupt, and collapse came in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin rose to power. But Yeltsin became president of Russia, not the USSR. The USSR was over after about 70 years, dying at its own hand. The USSR was second only to the USA in might and world power. Yet it collapsed under its own weight. Few predicted it, and almost no one in the American government saw it coming. Could it happen here? Over the past 30 years, we’
