I wasn&#x27;t referring to the US with that line. We&#x27;ll suffer but we&#x27;re just along for the ride.<p>What do you think is going to happen when China finds itself with &gt; 1 senior for every working age citizen, with a male-skewed population? Worse yet, what happens when China&#x27;s heavy investments in AI&#x2F;automation pay off? A dictatorship of 1 billion that has it&#x27;s jobs permanently filled by machines while it&#x27;s citizens struggle to raise their parents, working in overcrowded cities, with little hope for their own future? A country that&#x27;s already rapidly depleting their agricultural resources through poor management, with dire projections ~20-50 years out?<p>That alone isn&#x27;t a pretty picture.. But then remember that India&#x27;s next door with similar problems, and the two aren&#x27;t exactly buddy-buddy. Inevitably both countries will have to lean on regional allies to power through, but that might bring in the US (via S.K.&#x2F;Japan, today). And then we&#x27;ve got Russia upstairs, their future is a bit harder to see but today they&#x27;re the nuclear-armed wildcard oligopoly... one that&#x27;s not on friendly terms with the US&#x27;s sphere of allies.<p>Then there&#x27;s the middle east. If you think today&#x27;s bad, wait until their oil money starts running out as climate change keeps turning up the oven. That&#x27;s just adding fuel to the fires, millions of culturally alien people flooding relatively homogeneous societies already under pressure from their own needs.<p>And then Africa... yet another wild card. Today the various countries are in various states of development with mixed weak alliances to the East&#x2F;West, but there&#x27;s a massive population boom coming. No one is really certain where that&#x27;s headed. Maybe it becomes the next China (selling environmental degredation and cheap labor), or maybe we&#x27;ll end up with an under-developed continent of high unemployment&#x2F;desertification. I&#x27;m really curious to see how the various countries land on that spectrum.<p>Taken alone, the Americas don&#x27;t have a particularly risky looking future. South American drugs, guns, immigration, revolutions, old news for the US... though mass deforestation&#x2F;desertification will be a tragedy with serious climate impact. Europe might build some walls but they&#x27;re not going to war with each other again either. Australia probably won&#x27;t play a big role unless it gets invaded. But the other big continents? I can&#x27;t see the future, but today there are many red flags of something much worse.