What will happpen if the US didnt exist tomarrow?

[loinburger]

There would be dozens of splosions.

[CapitanGarlic]

I imagine that there would be a mad land rush. I'd probably move to Canada.

[Boris Godunov]

I'd wake up very wet, sloshing around in the Atlantic, wondering where the hell the country went.

[Gatekeeper]

The aliens would take over the planet's communication systems and simply say:

THE REST OF YOU ARE BEING SAVED FOR DESSERT!

Gatekeeper

[Capt Dizle]

Hmm, half the Mexican population would be gone too you know.

And if you mean the whole United States land mass just dissapears and there is nothing but a chasm left ...then the other half of the Mexican population would be lost too, tumbling in as they reported for their next work shift.

[red_jon]

We in Europe have no-one to annoy and harass. We lose our purpose and dissapear as well

[Mr. Oobir]

I'd die.

[Pekka]

There would be a new superpower.. maybe few. I think we, finns, would take the lead and show the rest of the world the new way. Even in Africa it would be mandatory to learn skiing and skating in school.
But don't worry.. I like it better when my murrican friends are in the sticks.

[Q Classic]

3)China would invade Taiwan

not for a long while. china just doesn't have the amphibious forces to take over an extremely heavily fortified island.

5)North Korea may invade South Korea

- North Korea will attack South Korea, get stopped cold and then backstabbed by China.

not quite. in all actuality, north korea would probably not try and invade skorea, because it realizes that it has zero chance of success. skorea is among the most heavily fortified and most rigorously defended nations in the world, and nkorea realizes this.
also, i'm quite sure you guys don't realize this, but there are a lot of hawks in the skorean military-- enough so that if the us weren't there, you could bet some of these hakws would probably actually try to invade themselves...

[The Mad Monk]

It really does depend on the manner of 'disappearance':

Does only the government disappear, leaving each state as its own nation, or perhaps total anarchy?

Does the infrastructure disappear, leaving the population?

Does the population disappear, leaving behind the infrstructure?

Do both disappear, leaving the landmass in its 'natural' state?

Does the landmass disappear, and is enough water 'magically' created or removed to not effect sea levels elsewhere?

Are corporations based in the United States assumed to re-base elsewhere and maintain their other holdings?

Have I provided enough questions?

[Lord Merciless]

The most like case of the US 'disappearing' would be a space-time discontinum, then the area hit by it would be set either forward or backward in time.

Well, we haven't considered the case in which the US has morphed into the Great American Empire in the future.

[Zoid]

Re: What will happpen if the US didnt exist tomarrow?

Originally posted by Kramerman
What do you think would happen if you woke up tomarrow and the US no longer existed? Here is a list of things I could realistically see happening:

1)Iraq invades at least suadi arabia, kuwait, and israel. Perhaps pther countries too.

2) Israel fghts for its life, without the US over its shoulder it decimates the Palestinians and fights off arab invasion.

3)China would invade Taiwan

4)India and Pakistan would probably go to war, though not immediately.

5)North Korea may invade South Korea

6)Columbia would fall to rebels without US military aid. (let alone destabilization of latin american countries in general)

7)Tremendous economic destabilization throught the world.

This is all the major stuff I could think of that could potentially happen at the moment. I am on my way to bed, but shall be interested at the responses I see tomarrow - I am sure of it.

You say it like it´s a bad thing...

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
It really does depend on the manner of 'disappearance':

Does only the government disappear, leaving each state as its own nation, or perhaps total anarchy?

Does the infrastructure disappear, leaving the population?

Does the population disappear, leaving behind the infrstructure?

Do both disappear, leaving the landmass in its 'natural' state?

Does the landmass disappear, and is enough water 'magically' created or removed to not effect sea levels elsewhere?

Are corporations based in the United States assumed to re-base elsewhere and maintain their other holdings?

Have I provided enough questions?

I was thinking along the lines as if the US and its land mass/population/infrastructure just disapeared. And as not to disturb ocean levels, yes, there would be water to replace the vaccume left behind. The complete disapearence of America includes those corporations over sea that are owned by Americans as well as American soldiers/citizens that are over seas as weel. In an essence, everything directly ties to AMerica just vanishes (including me!! ).
Some interesting responses so far...

Kman

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by bigvic
osama would be out of a job

No he wouldn't.
His new thing would be "the evil empire of Japan is threatening Islam. We must fight Jihad to protect our livlihood..."

EDIT:His new thing would be "the evil empire of [insert prosperous nation here] is threatening Islam. We must fight Jihad to protect our livlihood..."


[Translation]: Now [insert prosperous nation here] is the cool place to be and since their standard of living is so much higher than ours (because they work hard and go to their jobs every day, instead of parading the bodies of martyrs through the streets) we must attack them because we are jealous and dont want to have to make an honest living to improve our lives, so we will just hurt their standard of living instead...[/Translation]

[Kramerman]

Originally posted by bigvic
there would be about 1/3 less pride, greed and vanity in the world

1/3 less vanity means 1/3 less sexy models.... I am really gonna miss Californication after its gone..