America -- How Wil It End?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rome? Sic transit gloria mundi

Byzantium? "Istanbul was Constantinople/Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople"

The British Empire? "We're juuuuuuuust anuuuuuuuuuther cuuuuuuuuuuuun-try"

Nothing lasts forever. So, any speculation on what the decline and fall of the American Empire will look like, and what will be left in it's wake?

[Ecthy]

Are you that guy who posted the same at the EU boards Post-1819 history forums?

[Ecthy]

http://www.europa-universalis.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37175

[The Mad Monk]

First, what do you consider as part of the 'empire', as opposed to the 'nation'?

[Ecthy]

nation - 50 states + dc

empire - all b!tches, puppets, and evil dictators that profite from you guys

[Triped]

America will fall when the world explodes.

[Eli]

One day you'll kill UBL's teddy bear. Then he'll go mad and the US will cease to exist.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Ecthelion
Are you that guy who posted the same at the EU boards Post-1819 history forums?

Nope, just a bored guy killing time over lunch.

[Ecthy]

Wrong. America will fall when America explodes.

[Triped]

Which will occur at about the same time that the rest of the world explodes.

Seriously, I don't think America can ever really fall. Unlike Rome, we can't be weakened internally nearly as much, and tactically, a military takeover is nigh impossible.

We have so much technology, so much power over the world market, and our fingers in everything and everyone we can possibly hang onto...I seriously think that acts of God are all we have to fear...

[Ecthy]

We should just let them believe all that. That belief alone makes them weak.

You will fall when the rest of the world stops talking and trading with you.

[Triped]

That won't happen. Thank you, globalization.

[Ecthy]

It wil. Thank you, unilateral American foreign policies and stupid American people actually voting for Republican presidency candidates.

[Triped]

I only do so because my alternative is to vote for the Democrat ones.

I'll grant you that we just can't seem to get a decent leader around here anymore...

[morb]

although nobody wants to admit it, this country will disintegrate from internal strife. When "United we stand" is no longer the motto and minorities become greater than "natives" or at least homogenized, it will happen.

So in fact, it is not unlike Rome after all.