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Note: 4th reich simps and people who believe the dollar will never die need not join :3 (Also pessimists who think we are doomed in such a scenario!)
Humour the possibility for a moment, committing war crimes in 4k(unlike previous subtler crimes) is a sign of a desperate failing empire, laws are out of the window, nationalism is in government so in a desperate moment they can simply close off the borders both physically and digitally and keep all the infrastructure, assets, physical metals, cash foreign investors gave them, what you gonna do? They do have the biggest military, you cant take your money out and they dont care about you.
And subsequently the states would likely be divided into technofaudal kingdoms controlled by X ultra rich billionaire close to the regime today so they can build their fantasies of network states with no pesky government rules annoying them. The only thing that is delaying their fantasies is the lack of production which they are scrambling to bring back.
Another major point is that China's policy is often clear and honest, and their new policy right now is trying to increase internal consumption.
The world's consumption engine was murica, but China expects that to not be the case in the future hence the need to increase internal consumption for the system to not fall apart. China could easily break the 4th reich by selling off all the debt they own but that would also damage China hence why the nuclear option isnt being used and are instead trying to rebalance the books.
In such a scenario, you would have so many companies defaulting for putting their money in the US stock market, bonds or even physical metals stored there.
Would this global act of piracy unite the globe into closer trading partnership in order to survive or would other countries try to do the same? London for example, but they dont have the military to defend themselves so unlikely.
Countries who have achieved power independence via renewables are likely to have an advantage here as they wont need to trade for much oil as a source of energy (Meanwhile you can imagine the reich melting the poor in an attempt to create a new form of fuel)
But countries would also not be equal, not all countries will have the same level of black hole in their budget since they did not invest as much money in the US stock market giving them the upper hand in negations.
China also cant replace murica in terms of consumption in such a scenario since it is an exporter of goods, not an importer even when they achieved increase internal consumption.
Use your brain for once, brainstorm a bit, think of the possibilities, have fuuun :DDD