Well, the governments of the EU still cling to neoliberal policies while the far right movements gain traction, and the states are buying in more and more into surveillance technology, often imported from China.

The white Christian nationalists of the US are importing their religious vision abroad, and is gaining converts even on your shores.

So once the billionaire oligarchs are done here in the states financing our downfall, you can expect them to head over there and buy up your government officials as well. Because no matter where in the world you are, politicians come cheap, and they have more money than anyone ever has before, by orders of magnitude.

As I point out (though the thresholds don’t figure perfectly) a multi-billionaire can easily buy an election and control a government. A trillionaire can buy all the elections and control all the governments.

When the US falls, I hope the rest of the world learns from it. But we’ve seen this before not just in Germany and Italy. Our lessons from the twentieth century are not helping us that much in the twenty-first.

We live in very dire and interesting times.