Oh yeah I used a wrong verb. Sorry.
But nonetheless their borders will remain intact as nobody has any interest in that.
This is true, no one is interested in governing or salvaging such a dysfunctional and rotting society/territory honestly. But did you perhaps notice the ever-increasing:
internal political polarization, elite overproduction, financialization, miserable trust in all institutions, and in each other, demographic divisions on all levels, economic and social inequality, shrinking middle class, deaths of despair, cultural and moral decline, crime, lower leadership quality, bureaucratic bloat, corruption, the decline in education standards, the rise of secessionistic actions, mass riots, mass shootings, gun ownership, military overextension, and geopolitical competition they are losing in all domains that are drying them further, astronomical, record government debt, etc? This is like if you combined hundreds of large empirical collapse case studies, of the past history, and combined them into one contemporary empire without any sign of the impeding collapse missing. The end outcomes are then obvious. Either reform, which is unrealistic at that stage, or get conquered (we establish no one wants them), or disintegrate internally as I predict they will in the next few years. The US is not losing influence abroad because it is random, but because of all of these internal collapses and decays.
) that it is just bruise, nothing major like cartilage tissue.
