Anonymous ID: a01806 May 16, 2024, 4:32 p.m. No.20875805   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5827

🇺🇸🇺🇸 A historical note on how fast Superpowers can collapse

 

In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty#:~:text=The%20New%20Union%20Treaty%20(Russian,and%20reform%20the%20Soviet%20Union.) A year later, however, the USSR didn’t exist.

 

In 2021, an astonishing 66% of Southern Republicans and 50% of independents were in favor of secession. (http://archive.today/Qpdp6) The West Coast also showed strong support for secession but of a different political flavor, this time being mostly supported by Democrats.

 

In this sense, the U.S. is already in more of a precarious situation than the USSR was in early 1991…