Thread: Super Power Collapse Soup... Is U.S. the Next USSR

The Super Power Collapse Soup...Is The United States the Next USSR ?

Are We Headed for a Soviet-Style Collapse? - Dmitry Orlov

March 03, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3rloGDF ... r_embedded

Here's a guy who lived in the USSR before and during its collapse and in the US now.

He sees many obvious parallels. It's hard to disagree...

Complete video at: 1 hour 08 minutes

http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_ ... _Practices

March 03, 2009

Author Dmitry Orlov explains his notion of "Superpower Collapse Soup," and compares the modern United States to the USSR prior to that country's collapse in the early 1990s. Orlov argues the two nations are similar in a number of ways, including shortages in the production of crude oil, an expanding military budget, a severe trade deficit, and ballooning foreign debt.

Complete video at:

http://fora.tv/2009/02/13/Dmitry_Orlov_ ... _Practices

Author Dmitry Orlov explains his notion of "Superpower Collapse Soup," and compares the modern United States to the USSR prior to that country's collapse in the early 1990s. Orlov argues the two nations are similar in a number of ways, including shortages in the production of crude oil, an expanding military budget, a severe trade deficit, and ballooning foreign debt.

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With vintage Russian black humor, Dmitry Orlov describes the social collapse he witnessed in Russia in the 1990s and spells out its practical lessons for the American social collapse he sees as inevitable.

The American economy in the 1990s described itself as "Goldilocks" - just the right size - when in fact is was "Tinkerbelle," and one day the clapping stops.

As in Russia, the US made itself vulnerable to the decline of crude oil, a trade deficit, military over-reach, and financial over-reach. -- The Long Now Foundation

Dmitry Orlov is an engineer and a writer on subjects related to Peak Oil. He was born in Leningrad and moved to the United States at the age of 12. Orlov was an eyewitness to the collapse of the Soviet Union over several extended visits to his Russian homeland between the late 1980s and mid-1990s. He has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MA in Applied Linguistics. His latest book is Reinventing Collapse (June 200. His article Closing the Collapse Gap compares the collapse-preparedness of the USA and the USSR.