re: How will the United States end?

There’s multiple avenues of approach with this one.

We could be going like the Romans, they fought civil wars due to immigration. That led to Gaius Marius, Sulla, Pompey, Crassus, and Caesar. The reason those men became so powerful was because the Senate was too weak and too stupid to do anything, had their powers given to the Consul. Just like what we see now with our Congress, it’s a nutless wonder full of weak minded fools that just want another election win.

Look at our porous southern border. There’s a faction in this country that wants to close it off, rightly so in my opinion. And there’s a faction in this country that wants it wide open and not for altruistic reasons either. They want the votes because their policies are trash. One of these days the issue of immigration could very well send us spiraling out of control.

However, some say we will be defeated militarily. I ask, by whom? China? China has to get here first in order to defeat us. Or they have to stop us from getting to them for us to not defeat em. As it stands right now, China has a shitload of people. That’s it, their shitload of people are clustered in big population centers. Their military is still way behind ours in terms of advancement and tactics. They will still use human wave attacks while we will blow them off the map. China wants no part of a war with the United States.

Russia is also a ‘threat’ but their military is weaker than the Chinese, albeit the Russians undoubtedly have better leadership than the Chinese do. The Russians don’t have the economy to support a war. Hell, neither do the Chinese since so much of their money is linked to us.

Economically, it’s a dangerous game. The only thing that comforts me if our economy fails is...the rest of the world’s economies fail. And misery loves company. But I don’t know if we can allow our economy to fail. Although we seem to be pushing it closer and closer to the ledge in regards to student loans, SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and the housing market. We’ll see another recession at least in our lifetimes I believe. And that’s when we’re incredibly vulnerable to outside entities.

Eta: the field is littered with mines of various sorts, and we’ve done an alright job (minus a few years) of avoiding them. We’ll see what the future has in store.