> or it could roll on for quite a while

I hope to be wrong, but think it certainly will. all the money everyone is spending on arms it seems soon the only game left in town in the military industrial complex. the other career options are to become a doctor, or nurse.

the US in its current form is heading towards long drawn out collapse like the Roman empire, and they're dragging all their former allies down with them. there seem to be no peaceful options to prevent that collapse.

E.g.:

- I do not see any way they can modernize their messed up political system.

- their population is divided more than any country on the planet

- thanks to heavily propagandized citizens they don't have the critical mass to bring in change (not in a country where the companies have so much power)