TJ,
You seem to believe that if only the US were to fall in a really serious manner that some coalition, I suppose your "nuke backed Euro/Yen/Ruble/Yuan/Gold" coalition would just step in and run the world to their benefit. Anything is possible, but I really don't think this is very likely.
Before the US empire you had the British who mostly kept order in the world by means of the Royal Navy, going back to the time of Napoleon. But before that you had the old multipolar world, with Spain, France, England, Portugal contending with each other and with the lesser powers, and in those days global trade and travel was a pretty risky venture. In those days there were really no "offshore banking" havens, unless you count Blackbeard's Island. <grin>
If the US falls, what I believe is likely is a return to some version of that multipolar world, and with it very much less global trade and travel, both due to increased danger but more importantly, just the removal of the host of powerful incentives for it that now exist.
And for the world, this is a very good thing. The current scheme wrecks the environment of country after country and wastes our billion year bequest of natural resources in just a few generations. The theoretical underpinnings of globalism is a materialist construction, related to Marxism, and based upon the same fallacy, that man is an "economic animal" and this is just not true. Man is a social and maybe spiritual creature foremost.
Slagle |
