The US hasn't collapsed. If it collapsed, something could rise from the ashes. The US has developed major weaknesses like fault lines, to to speak, and a collap

The US hasn't collapsed. If it collapsed, something could rise from the ashes. The US has developed major weaknesses like fault lines, to to speak, and a collapse event, like an earthquake, has an elevated probability of happening, a prediction horizon, but the event still has to happen. The US has major weaknesses like high health care cost, aged infrastructure, no social safety nets to speak of, radically unequal wealth distribution, and erosion of democracy from lobbying and cash in politics, BUT it has not collapsed. However, all of these things raise the probability of collapse dramatically. Of course, it has changed from its height, a lot of it for the worse, but a change isn't a collapse. A collapse is a collapse.