>>2846643imagine summer 2020 but with more organized rioting and looting to appropriate resources from the empire and seizing territory piecemeal and that might be approximately the form it could take. the US is underdeveloped in ways that differ from feudal Russia insofar as the US as a country is very rich, but most Americans benefit increasingly little from that even up to the point of decaying public infrastructure. once upon a time the US was able to placate its own citizens by allowing them to share in the spoils of imperialism but unlike Europe which has been more successful at implementing socdem-lite policies by riding off its de facto ethno-nationalist conditions, the US is too oriented towards a more historically progressive model of the "free" market but as we know from Marx and Lenin, capital without a state to reign it in will start to cannibalize itself by ceasing to function as a free market. that's the brief history of how we've gotten here and why the US is in a rather unique set of conditions being simultaneously advanced in development (on paper – literally in terms of a GDP that is mostly speculative hot air) that is very unevenly distributed to the neofeudal bourgeoisie.