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Max Remington's avatar

Lots of reaction to this one. Will need to write up a follow-up.

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I am German, grew up with the most horrible stories of the aftermath of a multicultural society (todays Czechia), travelled extensively in Nineties Russia and partly grew up in the US. So here is my prediction about the US:

1. The US is not a country in the usual sense of the word. It is a continent with still lot´s of free space. It afforded the luxury to let her NorthEast go wild again as there was so much more agricultural space further West. (It´s an untold story but look at historical maps of NH, Maine, NYS and todays pattern of settlement)

2. The "tribes" aren´t strong enough for a real civil war. There are exceptions - the Appalachians come to mind - but for the most part there is not enough cohesion for different groups to go to war effectively

3. Nothing is more terrible than chaos. I´ve seen it in the Nineties in Russia where there were gunshots every night in the very center of Moscow. In the end people will accept anything as long as there is physical security.

4. The US military and security establishment has lot´s of experience propping up military regimes in South America. In the end that will happen in the US as well. Naked violence condoned by a citizenry that prefers anything to chaos. Sadly that is the lot of multicultural societies. Chalmers Johnson has foreseen the end of the American republic and foretold it. Look up his books which he wrote 20 years ago.

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