Jim and Dmitry Orlov have always pretty well agreed that the US is apparently fated to learn nothing substantive from the collapse of the USSR, and thus to repeat its trajectory. Both have been inclined to estimate that the US is seriously less well placed to weather this disaster than - by accident - Russia happened to be; because of the decades of communist government, that is…
The US is right now showing imminent signs of demonstrating the truth of their foresight: