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. A year later, however, the USSR didn’t exist.

 

In 2021, in the US an astonishing 66% of Southern Republicans and 50% of independents were in favor of secession. The West Coast also showed strong support for secession but of a different political flavor, this time being mostly supported by Democrats.

 

2024 - US Debt now rising by $1 Trillion every 100 Days.

  

Regardless of financial, political and military power, when time was due, 

no empire leader had ever been able to prevent its supremacy from collapsing. 

See also:

Martin Armstrong (2024) - The Five Stages of the Revolutionary Cycle.

L. David Linsky (October 24, 2023) - War and Regime Change soon in the US.

 Serge Bernard (2016) - From Conquest to Affluence to Collapse: The 250 Year Empire Life Cycle.

John Bagot Glubb (1978) - The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival.