“Will America disintegrate?” National Interest reported.
In a report referring to the current and future situation of the United States, the American publication examined the possibility of the disintegration of the United States.
As China and Russia, as well as other countries, hope for a negative future for the United States, this is certainly an opportunity to advance the ambitions of these powers.
“Sometimes countries lose control of a large part of their territories,” the National Interest think tank wrote in a report entitled Will the United States Remain United? “This could be due to foreign aggression, which usually occurs after internal conflicts.”
After years of conflict between North and South America over slavery and other issues, many South American states chose to secede from the United States after Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election. However, after a fierce civil war, the Confederates in the United States were defeated, and in 1865, the United States was reunited.
In the early twentieth century, the Chinese revolution overthrew the Manchu dynasty and divided China into warlord-controlled areas, although this trend was reversed in the 1920s.
The Russian emperor also fell after the fall of Tsar Nicholas II and the advance of the German army. Although the Tsar lost most of its western territory under the 1918 agreement, the Bolsheviks recaptured much of it after the collapse of the German Empire at the end of World War I.
The Japanese invasion of China in 1930 and 1937 not only threatened China’s integrity but also threatened its existence as an independent state. But after the defeat of Japan in 1945 and the rise of Maoist communism in China in 1949, China reunited and has now become a great emerging power.