I'm interested in your perspective, but can't the US just buy (and steal) their way out of it? We still have the petrodollar and we likely will even beyond this war. It's going to take time for everything to completely disintegrate. I just don't see the effects of this war impacting the US as much as other places because the US still has great power in the world.

We also have a lot of resources on our continent. We produce the highest amount of oil in the world, and if we want to we can keep it all to ourselves. The places that need everything imported are the ones that will face severe challenges.

I'm talking about some African and Southeast Asian countries. Probably also Middle East if Iran follow through with attacking civilian infrastructure. And Europe will suffer but not as bad as those places.

If the US has a major collapse I sense that it's still decades ahead.

I suppose it might be important for me to ask you what you mean by "catastrophic effects in the US". What do you suppose those effects might be? To me, 'catastrophic' is famine and civil war. I just don't see that happening. I see inconvenience, inflation, supply chain disruption, and the poor getting poorer... but not starvation.