Is it just me, or did we get distracted from the topic? It was about what would happen if things didn't get better, not why it will get better and how you are ignorant for thinking it won't. Common, I want to see some conspiracy theories here! Ok, what I think will happen is ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Relations with China, a country that invests alot of their money into ours, deteriorate as the dollar weakens and they start pulling out their investments. 2) Without investments from China, the US dollar plummets and super-inflation causes prices of goods to skyrocket. 3) In response to our weakening dollar, the world market begins to weaken as well, causing many smaller countries to go bankrupt. These small countries split apart into civil war, and soon the violence from these countries spills into other countries. 4) The Euro's value depreciates as Greece splits appart into civil war. We can already see tension in Greece, with violent protests happening now. If they were to loose money from tourism (their prime income) the country would break out in violence. 5) The violence from Greece spreads into other countries in Eastern-Europe, straining relations in Europe and further weakening the Euro. 6) The weakened Euro drives the countries in Western-Europe to try to go back to their origional currency, but the conversion back devistated lower-class families in Germany and France -- soon rendering them homeless. 7) In the mean time, India's population explosion is causing mass starvation throught the country, and the UN sends in aid to their country. 8 ) Pakistan, already in terrible economic shape, is hit hard by the economic stress, and many start calling for a war with India. When the UN sends aid to India, but not Pakistan, the people become angry at the UN, but even more so at India. 9) As Pakistani-India relations fall apart, the fighting between Palistine and Israel worsens, and other middle-eastern countries are drawn in by the fighting. The fighting in these countries has left the oil business devistated, as stray missiles hit them and the governments in the area, to financially hurt to aid the companies, cannot repair them. 10) With a decreased amount of arab oil in the market, the price of oil shoots up over 100$ a barrel. The drastic increase in oil price causes all petrolium based commodeties to almost double in price. 11) Back in the US, the increased price of fuel further weakens the US dollar, and the UN tries to step in with aid. However, many conservative members of the senate are too proud to accept any outside help, and try to stop the UN. 12) Fillibuster after fillibuster delay the UN aid by over a month, and in this time, conservative media sources are praising the senators and congressmen for regecting any aid, while con demning the un-American liberals for trying to make America look weak by accepting the aid. Soon, conservative consumers of the media start to protest the UN's intervention. 13) While infighting among political parties in the US increases, countries in Africa completely fall apart. Without profits from the diamond mines or tourism, the already fragile economy collapses in Africa, and the UN pulls their aid from other countries to focus on the warzone in Africa. 14) India, after having it's aid pulled, begins mass-murder of it's own people to curve the population problem. The rest of the world is shocked at this new tern of events, and Pakistan uses the opprotunity to attack India. Soon, a nuclear arms standoff between the two countries is in full swing. 15) Other world powers take sides in the conflict. The middle-eastern countries send support to Pakistan, while western powers send support to India. While the whole world focuses on them, North Korea begins it's invasion of South Korea. Without any outside aid, the North Koreans easily take the south, and Korea is united under communist rule. 16) By now, Brazil has begun a military opperation to take Venezuela's oil supply for itself, but Venezuela has been strengthened by the high price of oil, and is able to fight back. Cuba, seeing an opprotunity to make an oil producing ally, helps Venezuela defend itself against Brazil's attack. Soon, the fighting spreads to other latin-american countries, and soon many countries are taking chuncks out of Brazil. 17) Mexican citizens, disillusioned by the American economy, move back to their home country. The massive loss of consumers and workers cripples the American job market, and the Government is forced to send the national guard to quell the fighting. A collage campass gets shot up, and soon the liberal media is slamming Obama for sending in troops to kill US citizens. The political scene starts to worsen for Democrats, and the Republicans gain power once again. 18) After a year of invasion from all sides, Brazil is gone and Venezuela is now the largest country in South America. With their new found resources and taste for conquest, they begin to conquere the rest of the continent, and without any interferance from the rest of the world, is able to take 2/3 of South America and 2/5 of Central America. 19) The Pakistani-Indian war has left India weak and the mass starvation has driven them to desperation. In one final attempt to stop the fighting, they launch several nuclear arms at Pakistan. Pakistan responds with nuclear weapons of their own, and soon the Indian-platue is a nuclear wasteland. 20) The fallout carries on the winds, and soon deadly levels of radiation spread throught Sri-Lanka and the Indonesian islands. The WHO declares a state of global emergancy as the ash and dust from the bombs spread around the world, dropping the tempurature by nearly 5 degrees. The harsh winter that year kills many of the crops around the world, and soon mass starvation is rampant. 21) With India and Pakistan gone, the world turnes it's eyes onto Korea, who has, during the chaos, been re-conquered by China. The UN demands the release of Korean POW's, but China inturn demands a return on all of the money the US owes them. Soon, the world begins demanding for the US money to be sent to China, and a weakened United States has no choice but to oblige. With their new money, China is able to kickstart a program to aid it's poor rural citizens. 22) With an increase in the value of the Chinese currency, the world economy begins to focus on China. With a large consumer base and a large amount of money, China becomes the leading world power. In the mean time, the conservatives in the US have overthrown the government, and have pulled all of their money from the global market and shut the ports to close of the coutry. 23) During this time, Venezuela has been developing it's secret nuclear program and has planted nuclear arms in key points throught Honkong. Then, when the arms go off, all the fingers point at the US. 24) On October 23, 2017, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks for listening children! :thumbsup:
