The US profited enormous from Europe falling to pieces. Re-building Europe swept in money into US kofers for many, many years and is in fact still ongoing, albeit to a very small extend.<p>Consequently thinking your thoughts ahead will inevitably results in either WWIII or massive poverty coming all over us the moment the first asks value for money and demands his money back. In fact we are already there as we are relying on fiat money rather than backing by &quot;real&quot; goods.