It's only currently "secure" by the virtue of roughly two centuries of gradual expansion and a singular vision under a largely unified interplay of local, state-level, and national-level government.
And the quotations around "secure" are well do: we have no-go zones in this country, and enclaves where English isn't even spoken and US law barely applies.
Not to mention the painfully clear separation of political ideologies segmenting the population.
Yeah, the US isn't long for this world, at least in its current state. My best hope is that the land and its denizens prove too insurmountable for any would-be conquerors to try and take it after the fact.
So, a regression into the EU, rather than being the model for it?
Well, we'd still presumably be working from a common language and a historically shared over-culture; provided the Southwest doesn't become overrun by the Aztlan-cultists, it is pretty much an ideal situation. Plus, it would readily break up the political power the coasts hold over "flyover" country.
Honestly, it's more so luck than it was political maneuvering that the US maintained itself as a single country in a landmass this large with so many countries' fingers in the pie.
There's no securing this country in its entirety.
It's only currently "secure" by the virtue of roughly two centuries of gradual expansion and a singular vision under a largely unified interplay of local, state-level, and national-level government.
And the quotations around "secure" are well do: we have no-go zones in this country, and enclaves where English isn't even spoken and US law barely applies.
Not to mention the painfully clear separation of political ideologies segmenting the population.
Yeah, the US isn't long for this world, at least in its current state. My best hope is that the land and its denizens prove too insurmountable for any would-be conquerors to try and take it after the fact.
So, a regression into the EU, rather than being the model for it?
Well, we'd still presumably be working from a common language and a historically shared over-culture; provided the Southwest doesn't become overrun by the Aztlan-cultists, it is pretty much an ideal situation. Plus, it would readily break up the political power the coasts hold over "flyover" country.
Honestly, it's more so luck than it was political maneuvering that the US maintained itself as a single country in a landmass this large with so many countries' fingers in the pie.