The World in 25 years?

[ShonTron]

Utah under Chinese influence is pretty funny. Would we then see cultural dance shows in non-Chinese North American cities sponsored by LDS Mormon or Scientology groups?

Other really silly observations:
- South Carolina lumped in with New England or even Maryland.
- Cairo, Illinois as a southern frontier of Canada.
- Texas through Florida swallowed by Mexico?

Wouldn't Canada also be divided and conquered under such a silly scenerio? Wouldn't BC join the Chinese districts, Alberta join Wyoming; Saskatchewan and Manitoba become divided into enclaves and exclaves based upon which way to go, Ontario and east joining an Atlantic-EU thingy?

 

[Hipster Duck]

^All of those are about as plausible as Utahns adopting a one child policy.

 

[CDL.TO]

Relevant to this discussion, a "Yugoslav Map of the Near-Collapsing United States" from the 1980s.

Predictions from that part of the world of the US breaking up has a long history.

 

[Whoaccio]

This seems more plausible.

 

[adma]

Well, it isn't like we haven't seen this definitive illustration before

...or the one amended to include Alberta

 

[Admiral Beez]

This is kind of neat, the US National Intelligence Council, the long terms analysis branch of the US Intelligence Community, just released their 17 year projection for what the world will look like in 2025.
From the webpage:

The document itself is quite a whooper, bout 120 pages. Any thoughts? I can't help but feel the threat posed by Russia is grossly exagerated. The country's population has been dropping precipitously, its military kills more of its own soldiers than enemies and its economy is rickety.

So, how’d we do?