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by magicsmoke 2172 days ago
A "collapse" in the US would be civil war 2.0. That's what a "collapse" in China was from 1916 to 1949.

Still, a civil war requires the civilian government to lose control of the military or a central military to splinter into regional militias. That doesn't seem likely in the US or China. Another scenario for a US "collapse" would be a military coup or some other end to the democratic experiment.