You point out the parallel with Germany -- perhaps it's worth also pointing out that despite losing a major war, having its currency totally wrecked, falling in

You point out the parallel with Germany -- perhaps it's worth also pointing out that despite losing a major war, having its currency totally wrecked, falling into deranged totalitarianism, and losing another major war, Germany is still around and not doing too badly. So "do in entirely" and "utterly obliterate" seem a bit too strong to me. For that matter, the French Revolution doesn't seem to have destroyed France either. I think the majority opinion is that it was an improvement overall. (Of course, if anything like the same thing happens to the US as happened to Germany then that would be very, very, very bad. I just think you're exaggerating.)