>>15569The Russian Federation and the United States of America, as imperial forces extremely parallel to the past Roman Empire (as well as the French Empire, Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, and other such entities), can't truly collapse in the traditional sense.
This is because both cultures don't just contain massive amounts of nuclear weapons but that the regular American people as well as the regular Russian people don't have the psychological barrier to using atomic bombs on victims that other societies do.
As evidence, I'd point to the dual nukes used on Japan during World War Two by the Americans as well as the repeated instances during the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s in which key figures in the Russian government forward deployed tactical nuclear weapons in territories such as Chechnya.
It's also worth noting that the Russian Federation and the United States of America are the two countries with the largest neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements in the world per capita, when one looks at world politics as whole.
Whatever one makes of this ethically and morally is up to you, but I think that all of the above is clearly true as objective reporting of the facts.
