We’re screwed. The rest of the world has gotten tired of giving us goods: oil, clothes, cars, electronics, stuff, in return for scraps of paper.
Our government is so in over our heads that our grandchildren will be lucky to straighten it out. We are in some ways in a better position than Germany and Japan in 1945, but not much. At least they realized they had to start over and rebuild for generations. As long as we keep expecting magicians in Washington to suddenly and magically restore prosperity we are doomed.
The end of the war destroyed, pretty much, the ruling elite and their self serving notions in Germany and Japan.
We have no such luck. Our elite have not let this event go to waste and have powered up.