In our country, they love to mock those who predict the collapse of the United States.
Indeed, there are authors who write almost every month that the dollar is about to collapse, and the United States will disintegrate, at best, into two or three, and at worst, exactly 50 parts, according to the number of states.
But the fact that such authors exist does not at all negate the fact that this state is indeed experiencing very serious difficulties in recent years, and now the situation has worsened.
The statement by David Miliband, British ex-foreign minister (and also the cousin of one of the most famous Soviet orientalists Sophia Miliband) that the United States is facing the threat of "Balkanization" is already a very loud signal.
Who, if not the British, better understand the Americans with whom they speak the same language?
To quote a British politician: “Current tensions are not limited to time zones or even politics.
They touch upon much more acute issues - culture, self-perception, meaning, worldview ”.
It is worth dwelling on this in more detail.
The Turks are trying to implement in Azerbaijan (and not only in Azerbaijan, it should be recognized) the program "Two countries - one people", and the United States has long implemented the program "One country - many peoples".
But, unlike Russia and other multinational countries, these peoples are not natural, but constructed communities.
Ethnic differences between blacks and whites, or the descendants of the Spaniards and the descendants of the British, are not at all as serious as some might think.
The fragmentation in the United States stems from artificially created constructs.
Wealthy black graduates from leading universities are much closer to their white classmates than to dark-skinned from poor areas.
And the rednecks of the Midwest, despite their innate racism, find it much easier to find a common language with an equally dark-skinned religious traditionalist than with a white transgender from California.
As far as 50-odd sexual self-identifications are unnatural, other American ideological new formations are also far-fetched.
Of course, very revealing is the story of the white BLM activist Helena Duke, who handed over to the police her own parents who participated in the storming of the Capitol, and then announced a fundraiser for her education, because her parents are no longer able to help her.
Just like in a children's joke about a little cannibal who ate mom, dad, grandmother and grandfather and now cries that he is a miserable orphan.
Every year there are more and more orphans like these who betrayed their parents, their faith, their people and their country.
At the same time, it should be remembered that revolutions (who, if not us, know this?) Do not occur when a country lives steadily in poverty, but when prosperity is suddenly replaced by relative distress.
The Russian Empire was a rich country, and people in the USSR lived quite well before perestroika.
But the drop in the standard of living, caused in the first case by the war, and in the second by ill-considered reforms, led to a sharp activation of all accumulated contradictions, the collapse of power and the collapse of the country.
In the United States, the situation is aggravated by the fact that the Democratic Party and its supporters, without any reason, already feel like winners and masters of life.
But this is not at all true!
The Russians are slowly harnessing, but driving fast, the same goes for the American hinterland.
Feeling betrayed and deceived, the American "deep people" voted against the establishment in 2016.
Steam from the boiler, which was already starting to crackle, was released.
Now the "deep people", firstly, are offended by the fact that their votes, in fact, were stolen, and it is not so important how many votes were thrown in for Biden.
And secondly, proposals to restrict air travel for Trump supporters and massive social blocking are already a direct attack on the freedoms that the average American considers inherent.
He was taught at school that America is the freest country in the world, and now he sees exactly the opposite.
How can we not take up arms, which, as we all faithfully remind us, in the United States in the hands of people there are not many, but very many?
Of course, the US has a large margin of safety.
The American authorities can not only pour blood on any mass protest, but also fill up with money.
And a donkey laden with gold, as we know, is able to take the most impregnable fortress.
So don't rush to bury America.
But there is no doubt that the United States is now experiencing one of the most serious crises in its history, comparable to the situation on the eve of the Civil War.
The author's point of view may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.