More scenarios for the decline of the US empire.

For a while I had a fairly pathetic joke on this blog. In US elections I asked people to vote Republican on the grounds that it would hasten the collapse of the US as a global superpower.

Somehow, I can't help thinking of that today, when reading this piece by Thomas Friedman in conjunction with this by Umair Haque.

Fascinating and worthwhile read. How prepared is the US for a collapse?