A Historical Note on How Fast Superpowers can Collapse
By Intel Slava
In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty#:~:text=The%20New%20Union%20Treaty%20(Russian,and%20reform%20the%20Soviet%20Union.) A year later, however, the USSR didn’t exist.
In 2021, an astonishing 66% of Southern Republicans and 50% of independents were in favor of secession. (http://archive.today/Qpdp6) The West Coast also showed strong support for secession but of a different political flavor, this time being mostly supported by Democrats.
In this sense, the U.S. is already in more of a precarious situation than the USSR was in early 1991…
Original source: https://t.me/intelslava/54872?single
