[CowboyJay]

I guess what I’m trying to say is that if there’s a major economic/currency reset, Russia will still have oil and gas, China will still have 1/2 of the world’s industrial capacity, and they’ll still get most of their copper from Chile.

Things might not exactly be comfortable in those places, but it’s going to be paradise compared to what would happen here. We barely even feed ourselves at this point.

[RayChuang88]

You forget that the USA also has access--especially now with modern extraction technology--to huge reserves of oil and natural gas, too. And unlike Russia, we have the infrastructure in place to ship the oil and natural gas to refineries, thanks to the best freight railroad infrastructure on Earth.

And the USA is sitting on the world's largest known supply of thorium-232, a nuclear element that we now know can be used as a nuclear fuel for a new, very safe nuclear reactor called the molten salt reactor (MSR). We have enough to generate electricity via MSR's the equivalent to the entire electrical output of the USA for several thousand years.