The US Will Go Bankrupt, Collapse, and Break Up | Andrew Napolitano

The greatest threats to America come not from abroad but from internal overreach: a permanent surveillance state, secret executive militarism, congressional impotence, judicial passivity, and catastrophic debt. The formal structure of the Constitution remains, but its functional authority is evaporating. This points toward systemic failure.

 

 The Course of Empire, painting by Thomas Cole, 1836

Congress has abdicated its legislative role, the judiciary selectively enforces constitutional norms, and the executive rules increasingly by decree. Meanwhile, lobbying power from defense contractors and pro-Israel groups locks Congress into perpetual military spending—now over $1 trillion annually, more than the next ten countries combined.

 Map of the 2nd American Civil War, July 2025.

 

Domestically, the unchecked growth of executive power is matched by economic instability. The federal debt, nearing $40 trillion, carries annual interest exceeding $1 trillion—an unsustainable burden that threatens systemic collapse. Tariffs, imposed unilaterally and used as political weapons, drive up consumer prices while violating constitutional limits, which vest taxing authority solely in Congress. Courts may soon invalidate these executive-imposed tariffs, but political gridlock makes corrective legislation unlikely.

 

» Collapse—not through revolution, but insolvency. «

 

If unchecked, these dynamics will lead to the federal government's collapse—not through revolution, but insolvency. Unable to service its debt, pay salaries, or borrow, Washington could cease functioning. The likely outcome is regional fragmentation: a dozen or so independent republics forming along ideological and geographic lines—e.g., New England, Texas, and the Southeast. This breakup, though gradual and nonviolent, will mark the end of the United States as a unified federal entity.

 

Reference:
Andrew Napolitano (August 19, 2025)  - The US Will Go Bankrupt, Collapse & Break Up. (video)

 

 

» Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease. «

Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb, 1978.

See also:

Neema Parvini (2025) - The "Iron Law of Oligarchy" and the Delusion of Democracy. 

Lieutenant-General Sir John Bagot Glubb (1978) - The Age of Decadence. 

Ray Dalio (2025) - Don't Think That What's Now Happening Is Mostly About Tariffs.

Serge Bernard (2016) - From Conquest to Affluence to Collapse: The 250 Year Empire Life Cycle.
Martin Armstrong (2024) - The Five Stages of the Revolutionary Cycle.

TPR (2024) - How fast Superpowers can Collapse.

 

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