Closing the 'Collapse Gap': The USSR Was Better Prepared for Collapse Than the US

A presentation first published in December, 2006 by Dmitry Orlov, and well worth your time.

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Continuing with our list of superpower similarities, many of the problems that sunk the Soviet Union are now endangering the United States as well:

- Such as a huge, well-equipped, very expensive military, with no clear mission, bogged down in fighting Muslim insurgents.

- Such as energy shortfalls linked to peaking oil production.

- Such as a persistently unfavorable trade balance, resulting in runaway foreign debt.

Add to that a delusional self-image, an inflexible ideology, and an unresponsive political system.

Review the whole presentation, and don't forget two more articles from Orlov on getting by in the post-collapse USSR.

Or not.

Even if you don't want to address reality, reality will find a way to address you.

Tempus fugit.