>>10093759>>10093761oh a lot of it is wishful thinking, not what i was expecting at all. portugal was right about one thing: the US is too valuable to the world for a lot of reasons (even if we're a piggy bank for people to reach into) for it to just fall apart like that
civil unrest in the america will take some pretty fucking serious conditions to happen - and a great depression-like situation is pretty fucking close to that but that's why the government is BRRRRRRing out money at great cost to the debt. one thing to realize is that despite the huge economic downturn, the average person right now is situationally way better off than the average person in 1929 was, because while there's massive wealth inequality our wealth and standard of living is so much better now than back then
debt issue is more long-term and will definitely be a problem but that goes back to what portugal said: the world really doesn't want to join in a terrible collapse like that so there will be some refinancing and an extended depression as a result of that, and a reduction of trust in the US as a debtor, but it will take other motivations or actions to spur massive conflict
the bad part about the massive debt raises is that is an increasing economic burden that will be shouldered by most people that aren't mega-rich and/or old right now for a long time
the bad part about oil dependency on saudis, even temporarily, is that someone just has to start yet another middle eastern war and it will immediately become a major multi-state proxy war while also shooting oil prices (and thus prices of everything else for transport reasons) through the roof
