i believe "we the people still have a fighting chance", and i actually remain fairly optimistic - tho many may not survive.

investigate the milkshake economy / effect

it basically is a macroeconomic theory that as people die, the USD will become extremely "strong" - because USD is "burned" (crypto term) - the result is the USD becomes less liquid, and much stronger - effectively mitigating the USD debt bubble.

median predictions presume 1 - 3 billion deaths due to climate change™ (definitely not the experimental mrna drugs) over the next 3 - 5 years ... where numbers will be highly focused in israel, western cities and the US military. honestly, it's like the most strategic bombs ever designed. 這個棒極了

china will also suffer heavy "losses", but cccp don't mind - safe to say - expendable serfs have always been china's #1 resource.

thankfully, there are a lot of christans , libertarians , native americans and blacks - armed with the 1st and 2nd amendments - who won't tolerate a "take over". so... we do have that.

and you are right... the US has way more in common with Russia than China has with Russia.

I remain hopeful that most of us will weather this storm.