I mean, there are two side of the argument.

Pragmatically, fleeing would save your life.

But ethically, it feels cowardly. (I’m not calling anyone a “coward”, its just how I internally feel about such an act, if I were the one doing it)

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    36·
    5 days ago

    If the United States goes down, you’ll have a corporate oligarchy with the most powerful military in world history.

    Just saying.

      • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
        14·
        5 days ago

        I’ve read a lot of modern fiction set in the 1930s. The authors almost always have a character who can’t leave Europe because they are caring for an elderly parent.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 days ago

            Book review time!

            Alan Furst has been writing WW2 era spy books for a while now. “Night Soldiers” is about a young Bulgarian fisherman whose brother is killed by a fascist mob. He gets recruited by the KGB and after training in Moscow he is sent to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

            Philip Kerr wrote a series of books about a Berlin private eye. Ex-cop Bernie Gunther is a WW1 veteran who loves Germany and who could have left any time, but stayed on until it was too late.

          • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
            2·
            4 days ago

            His Veep is just as bad…

            Also, I meant a calm transition from America being top dog to another power. Russia and China aren’t going to share power nicely and there are enough countries with nukes to make the whole thing really unstable.

            • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              4 days ago

              Ya, I don’t think Vance would accomplish much, he definitely doesn’t have the same charisma or followers.

              True, things would definitely get interesting if the US wasn’t the top power. You don’t think China and Russia would team up? Or you think thats only because “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”?