**Ask a monkey a physics question thread**

[OngBonga]

I'm not trying to stop you just point out you shouldn't worry yourself too much about these things because they're unrealistic in the short term.

I don't worry too much about it. I just think it's sensible to worry about it enough to the point where you have some idea how to survive if it happens. The signs are there that our financial system is under immense pressure. USA will go to war with anyone to protect the dollar. There is certainly the potential for hard times in the future. I just don't really want to be thinking "I wish I'd learned how to filter water" as I shit a stream of brown liquid.

It doesn't hurt to learn stuff, or discuss what you think you know with people who know better.

[MadMojoMonkey]

USA will go to war with anyone to protect the dollar.

Not entirely true.

It'd take a lot of years of political pressure to change that we're never going to war with either GB or Israel.
We can probably include Canada in that. Then no one's going to war with the Swiss, like ever.
I think Americans would be opposed, for at least a little while, to war with any Western European nation, really.

I think America has learned its lesson with trying to war with Russia. Russia too stronk.

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I don't think going to war with China would be a good idea for anyone, but the reasons are totally different. I suspect the only reason USA is left to play the world police in the past 50 years is because the Chinese see how expensive it is for us, and are happy to let us foot that bill while becoming financially indebted to them for it.

That could be is certainly terribly naive on many counts, though.