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No way, countries don't just go and collapse. USSR collapsed because it was run by an extremely unnatural and inefficient regime, and was rotted out from the inside out. The country could no longer satisfy the basic needs of its population, which is kinda sucky for a communist government. The trouble that US is in, real and potential, does not even come close to USSR's troubles.
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The U.S.S.R. went broke.
http://www.feb.ugent.be/algeco/ceris...ne_ES_2003.pdf