Originally Posted by
nene
Reminds me of a Poli sci professor asking the class how many think that the US will be here forever (or at least till the end of humankind).....almost everyone raises their hand, then he shows a chart basically showing that 98% of the known "nations" of the world that have ever existed, cease to exist. How many Romans thought they had the world by the shorthairs? Everything has a first and last time.
US will likely be around in some form (perhaps by another name) for a very long time. We have vast resources and very wide moats... and they'll seem even wider when your naval forces are getting picked off by attack submarines. If push comes to shove, imagine what a resistance/insurgent movement would look like in the inter-mountain west, deep south, Texas, etc That has held true through the revolutionary war, civil war, both world wars, and the cold war. Closest we came was brits trying again in 1812.... unless you count Hitler's attempt to talk Mexico into invading the US
Same reason Iranian people and society have existed continuously for millennia... hard to dig them out from behind the Zagros mountains. North America, even more so.
The Roman Empire actually existed in some form, name at least, until the late 18th century... it actually slightly overlapped the foundation of the USA.