The revolution would probably be followed by a dictatorship, which in turn would eventually deteriorate into a state of dystopia and ultimate collapse. That has happened to a few nation states in the history of civilization and there is no guarantee it won't happen to America.
External, Escalating Blowbacks
America was born in the womb of war
Will she die in its arms?
---The author
There are two sources of blowbacks, or retaliatory actions, one internal involving citizens against their own government, as in an armed revolution, and the other external involving actions against a nation by sources outside of it. Both sources produce blowbacks varying in size, intensity, and harm done. By "escalating blowbacks" I mean repeated retaliations against the same target(s) that increase in size, intensity, and harm done.
If you agree with the view that the U.S. provoked Japan into bombing Pearl Harbor then that "day in infamy" was the most monumental blowback on America ever carried out by another nation---so far. More external blowbacks were to follow years later, some on American soil, some on Americans in foreign countries: the Beirut barracks bombings in 1983, the 1988 bombing of PAA Flight 103 over Lockerbie; the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996; the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the "9/11" attack; the Baltimore marathon bombing in 2013.
Unless and until America's warring habit is kicked more blowbacks are inevitable. Common sense tells us that. It's simply a form of retributive justice, "an eye for an eye," or in today's world, a mass of bodies for a mass of bodies." Here's what Pierre Sprey, a former Pentagon official and fighter aircraft designer had to say about the matter: "---what happens on the ground is for every one of those impacts [drone strikes] you get five or ten times as many recruits for the Taliban as you've eliminated. [4]
Armageddon
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