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The Department of Homeland Security is looking to boost its deployment of the military on the streets of the U.S. in order to help carry out Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a leaked memo written by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s brother.
Frankly I could see far worse than federal collapse, as in I wouldn’t be surprised if some areas devolved into city states at best. The economy is rat fucked to the point where anything coming out the other side that isn’t already exceptionally robust is unlikely, which basically is a list of the Western states, North East, and the Mid West Ohio not withstanding.
That’s what the billionaires want, billionaires can own city-states.
I feel like they’re missing the fact that most of them will be wholly irrelevant if USD collapses remember most of them hold their wealth in stocks and the ones who don’t have no practical way of enforcing their power. They aren’t the patricians of the late Western Roman empire who were both oligarchs and generals with loyal house troops, they are closer to the Italian city state patricians chucking around mercenaries and backstabbing.
They own enough other shit to survive a dollar collapse, they buy up everything they want on the cheap.
Yeah how’d that work for the Romans in the East when the Visigoths, Franks, and Ostrogoths ripped apart the West and the Easts investments collapsed. You are assuming that American society holds up in any practical way, I don’t think it will I think the USD will be worth only as much as it’s good for toilet paper. The US economy is too weak as a whole to support itself if it faulters anytime soon, everything is top down and much like a top heavy ship itll flip and sink.
Not if they’re dead.