"On the fourth day, I’d be assassinated."

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12. Well

You think the US is the only thing keeping China and Russia from going after each other?

Not the only thing, but major component. If anything the US at least causes any country to think twice about disturbing the status quo.

If they went after each other today, who do you think the US would side with?

Most likely China due to our mutually beneficial trade relationship.

Do you think the US has the ability to resist SA and Iran right now? Afghanistan is giving us some troubles and consuming a lot of resources.

Absolutely. Afghanistan's location between Iran and Pakistan requires the US to be
much more sensitive in the application of our military might for fear of starting total war.

But if it came down to it, we'd be in Tehran in under six months.

Who do you think would colonize African countries?

China and Russia are currently heavily investing in snapping up African natural resources. The lack of a US presence would put that into overdrive.

Europe would be left to fend for itself against whom?

Both Russia to the east and against themselves. Russian influence is already causing havoc in the Ukraine and lack of US defenses would only embolden Russia even more to put its former states under its wing again.

The lack of US defenses would also mean that Europe would have to cut into popular social programs in order to fund actual militaries now that the US wouldn't be doing the heavy lifting for them.

This would cause social unrest as we saw with the austerity protests and destabilize the region in general.

While these are what I feel to be the most likely scenarios, in general the US withdrawing from the world would leave a huge power vacuum that wouldn't be filled by people singing kumbaya under a rainbow.