Beggars can't be choosers
Soon Americans may well face the choice you describe or Americans will gain a backbone and restore their birthright and Freedom, or death will stalk millions or perhaps billions worldwide. I do not know what the future will bring but I do know what the present is writing on the wall. Nukes could and probably will play a tremendous part in placing engraved imagines of many on walls that used to be living breathing people. Maybe one day the museums will hold sections of wall with this being what was written by leaders. And then perhaps the caption will read ... Never Again?