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I have been beating this drum for a few weeks now:
When empires collapse, their colonies weaken and the enemies begin chipping away. Rome and England lost their colonies as they lost the ability to keep them.
We don’t have colonies per-se, but we have pseudo-colonies - countries we protect and have very favorable trading relationships with. I expect them to experience shooting wars and this could actually lead to a “shooting war” on US soil.
Part of this comes from a realization that our enemies are also getting desperate in the global meltdown. Desperate countries can take desperate measures. I think of things like North Korea attacking SK, China and Taiwan, Russia in Georgia, and now we have issues in Pakistan. India? It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Maybe obama could go over there and talk with them.