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I’ve thought about this recently.

The collapse of the USSR was a weird event for me. One day I walked into the Cascades with the Soviets there, big and burly, and when I got back to the car one week later, it was gone. Startling.

Sometimes I think the United States will go the same way. One week it’ll be here, the next week the states will be scrambling this way and that to create a new configuration for governance. I would hope that if this happens it occurs with the same lack of warfare that I witnessed in Russia, but who knows... as long as I’m on the side of the border reestablishing limited government, natural rights, and rule of law.

God help us.

They’re gleefully flipping us off. After all those years as a communist swamp, listening to us tell them about our freedom of the press, now they’re getting to point out the obvious flaws with the partisan media over here. Communism aside, the Russians have their pride, and they’re happy to point out how the Cold War winners are collapsing - just like they did not such a long time ago.

True, the Russians always had pride in their homeland, I'm part Russian myself and I remember my grandmother always thought of Russia itself favorably although she didn't like the Communists or the Cossacks before that because she's have Jewish and her mother had villages burned out from under her. Still unfortunately, most my family did fight for the Communists, according to family story (I need to verify this somehow if I ever can so take it as you will), my great, great grandfather became a general in the Red Army and even knew Lenin personally and took orders from him. He told his son, my great grandfather, "get out of here, you don't want involved in this" so that is how he came to America.

The collapse of the USSR was a weird event for me. One day I walked into the Cascades with the Soviets there, big and burly, and when I got back to the car one week later, it was gone. Startling.

Yeah, I still think the collapse of the USSR was "Alien Space Bat" territory.

Alien Space Bats are (mythical?) superpowered creatures who in turn make almost impossible/improbable events in history happen. "Alternate History" is a hobby of mine and sometimes when we play the "what if game," we invoke Alien Space Bats to make almost impossible events happen.

Well, digressing, in high school, we did agree the USSR would collapse at some point, but we figured that it would have lasted until 2020 at the earliest or as my friend put it, "we will be old men."

Sometimes I think the United States will go the same way. One week it’ll be here, the next week the states will be scrambling this way and that to create a new configuration for governance. I would hope that if this happens it occurs with the same lack of warfare that I witnessed in Russia, but who knows... as long as I’m on the side of the border reestablishing limited government, natural rights, and rule of law.

Well, we can only hope, it is like the Glenn Beck analogy of bringing down and ditching a plane. We need to look for a highway to land on or at least a large, level, soft meadow but if it gets bad, we could bring it down into a load of trees or worse, a side of a mountain.

God help us.

Well, preach it, man! I think He's the only one that can help us now. Amen.