What would happen if the US suddenly 'dissapeared'?

This is not anti-american in any way, in fact if anyone here watched my posts you'd see I'm a nut at defending the US.

This is just trying to think about what would happen in the world if, say, the US disappeared. Mainland, that is. Lets just assume an alien bomb blew up North America (canada, mexico, and the US). What would happen?

IMO we'd have China, Russia, and other baddies take advantage and invade lesser countries. We'd see an escalation of tensions everywhere. Japan and Australia would probably invade China, as China would try to invade Taiwan and Mongolia, which would lead to invasions of Japan and Australia. Russia would invade China, seeing as it did that in the 40s. It would threaten Europe with nukes. Arab Islamo-extremists would think it was a prophecy or something and invade Israel. Non extremists would immigrate to Israel, Europe, Pakistan, and Russia. Israel might deploy nuclear weaponry, or just might wait for the enemy to gather, then carpet bomb them, summarily followed by a takeover of minor arabian countries. Eygypt and S Africa would try to build up whatever they had. Africa would therefore remain the same. S Africa would remain the same.

Doubtless US troops already deployed everywhere would accelerate the elimination of any enemies in the world in their respective locations. S Afrika and Iraq would almost instantly become mini-USes. Then, nuclear weaponry by Russia and the world 'might' be deployed, seeing as Europe failed to allow the US to build a missile shield and seeing as combined nuclear weaponry from non-US countries would be nothing compared to the ex-US's nukes.

Anyways, there be a possible scenario. Feel free to comment or post you own, under my paramaters or your own, with the destruction of US land or other countries, etc.

All of the reamaining continents would have more beach area because all the water would have to fill in the big hole where N. America used to be.

Mass confusion trying to figure out what in the hell just happened to an entire continent,

I don't think all the countries would invade each other. If anything there would be a cold war with Russia vs. China. Islamic Extremist groups would move on to their next target. China would go broke from loosing its biggest trading partners.

Not Canada!

Well, what would happen is that the world would end because Canada wouldn't be around to break up the fights so everyone would bomb each other.

Actually, I imagine that they'd probably spend the rest of eternity trying to figure out where North America went - then blame it on global warming so they'd stop it and the world would be saved. At the expense of an astronomically large percentage of the earths population disappearing or dying horribly...

Poor Canada.

excellent discussion.

my guess is that china would immediatly invade taiwan. without the US that leaves the 2 major superpowers in the world, China and Russia. china would probably have a heavy sphere on influence in asia while Russia has great influence over most of eastern europe. both china and russia might fight to claim oil reasources in the middle east.

no one will miss canada im sorry.

Yeah, an alien bomb.TheHimura

Yes, quite the alien bomb isn't it?

Gosh, my own thread is making me crack up!

The global economy would collapse. The US buys huge amounts of goods from everyone.

Britain and the EU would try to fill in the political gap that the US left.

Russia would make a powerplay and have hopes of finally being the supreme nation that they've always wanted to be.

Russia would have to use up some of their nuclear arsenal because they would never have a powerful enough military to fight all of Asia and Europe. After wiping out one or two countries, they'd probably hold the rest of the world ransom.

The Middle Eastern countried would break down into full scale chaos. The Palestinians and their backers would make a push into Israel and Israel would possibly have to use their nukes because they would be overwhelmed.

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

IMO we'd have China, Russia, and other baddies take advantage and invade lesser countries.lompocus

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

guynamedbilly

Yea I can't think of anything that might occur in south america.

The global economy would collapse. The US buys huge amounts of goods from everyone.

Britain and the EU would try to fill in the political gap that the US left.

Russia would make a powerplay and have hopes of finally being the supreme nation that they've always wanted to be.

Russia would have to use up some of their nuclear arsenal because they would never have a powerful enough military to fight all of Asia and Europe. After wiping out one or two countries, they'd probably hold the rest of the world ransom.

The Middle Eastern countried would break down into full scale chaos. The Palestinians and their backers would make a push into Israel and Israel would possibly have to use their nukes because they would be overwhelmed.

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

guynamedbilly

Israel wouldn't be overwhelmed. Remeber when israel was founded how easily they took on every arab country in 7 days?

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The global economy would collapse. The US buys huge amounts of goods from everyone.

Britain and the EU would try to fill in the political gap that the US left.

Russia would make a powerplay and have hopes of finally being the supreme nation that they've always wanted to be.

Russia would have to use up some of their nuclear arsenal because they would never have a powerful enough military to fight all of Asia and Europe. After wiping out one or two countries, they'd probably hold the rest of the world ransom.

The Middle Eastern countried would break down into full scale chaos. The Palestinians and their backers would make a push into Israel and Israel would possibly have to use their nukes because they would be overwhelmed.

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

lompocus

Israel wouldn't be overwhelmed. Remeber when israel was founded how easily they took on every arab country in 7 days?

Didn't they have our support then?

[QUOTE="lompocus"][QUOTE="guynamedbilly"]

The global economy would collapse. The US buys huge amounts of goods from everyone.

Britain and the EU would try to fill in the political gap that the US left.

Russia would make a powerplay and have hopes of finally being the supreme nation that they've always wanted to be.

Russia would have to use up some of their nuclear arsenal because they would never have a powerful enough military to fight all of Asia and Europe. After wiping out one or two countries, they'd probably hold the rest of the world ransom.

The Middle Eastern countried would break down into full scale chaos. The Palestinians and their backers would make a push into Israel and Israel would possibly have to use their nukes because they would be overwhelmed.

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

guynamedbilly

Israel wouldn't be overwhelmed. Remeber when israel was founded how easily they took on every arab country in 7 days?

Didn't they have our support then?

Do they really need our support to take on the middle east anymore?

I just really have no idea. What if there was a massive suicide bomber attack on Jerusalem, and 10,000 bombers all blew up at once? What then? That's not kosher.guynamedbilly

nuke the border?

The global economy would collapse. The US buys huge amounts of goods from everyone.

Britain and the EU would try to fill in the political gap that the US left.

Russia would make a powerplay and have hopes of finally being the supreme nation that they've always wanted to be.

Russia would have to use up some of their nuclear arsenal because they would never have a powerful enough military to fight all of Asia and Europe. After wiping out one or two countries, they'd probably hold the rest of the world ransom.

The Middle Eastern countried would break down into full scale chaos. The Palestinians and their backers would make a push into Israel and Israel would possibly have to use their nukes because they would be overwhelmed.

I think Africa, and South America would be pretty much unchanged. Australia would fight against the Russians. I don't really know how powerful the Australian military would be, so it's hard to predict who'd get control of Australia.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

guynamedbilly

god I hate when people say Britain and the EU.....

china will take over the worldlugiemojeed

not rly, not only do they need us economically, but numbers has nothing to do with military strength.

Dora the Explorer would be taken off the air, permanently.

guynamedbilly

Not Dora the Explorer

World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!SaintLeonidas

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

[QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!SaintLeonidas

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

[QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!SaintLeonidas

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

Tj\hose are poor freakin countries, they will never get ore powerfull... Anyway, the only thing that nowadays counts is the economie,we have nukes that destroy the planet... so using them would be very stupid... So who has the best economy, Europe and not china.

Cina is selling stuff becuase tehy never coulf, soon they will rock bottom and then they will invext in africa... An europe will profit from everything,just like the US once did....

Europe>US

Why would Australia invade a country with nukes when we have no nukes :|Whicker89

hahaha he got pwnd

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

Tj\hose are poor freakin countries, they will never get ore powerfull... Anyway, the only thing that nowadays counts is the economie,we have nukes that destroy the planet... so using them would be very stupid... So who has the best economy, Europe and not china.

Cina is selling stuff becuase tehy never coulf, soon they will rock bottom and then they will invextin africa... An europe will profit from everything,just like the US once did....

Europe>US

I have no idea what that word is...

In fact the USA have such a huge external debt that if investors decided all together to withdraw their money the USA power will disappear at once

[QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

Somebody missed their European history classes....

[QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!schoeffmaster

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

Tj\hose are poor freakin countries, they will never get ore powerfull... Anyway, the only thing that nowadays counts is the economie,we have nukes that destroy the planet... so using them would be very stupid... So who has the best economy, Europe and not china.

Cina is selling stuff becuase tehy never coulf, soon they will rock bottom and then they will invext in africa... An europe will profit from everything,just like the US once did....

Europe>US

[QUOTE="schoeffmaster"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!Whicker89

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

Tj\hose are poor freakin countries, they will never get ore powerfull... Anyway, the only thing that nowadays counts is the economie,we have nukes that destroy the planet... so using them would be very stupid... So who has the best economy, Europe and not china.

Cina is selling stuff becuase tehy never coulf, soon they will rock bottom and then they will invext in africa... An europe will profit from everything,just like the US once did....

Europe>US

You can count europe as one.... Thats why we europeeans will win!

China would definatly establish its dominance. Communism would rule the world.

[QUOTE="Whicker89"][QUOTE="schoeffmaster"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"][QUOTE="0757691"][QUOTE="SaintLeonidas"]

[QUOTE="0757691"]World peace or ending world hunger.... Something like that!0757691

world peace, lol

Yeah with americans around it never will, but with europe it will!

not rly. With the US out of the picture expect Iran, North Korea to grow a bigger pair. Then theres the fight over the next big power. The US which spends almost more than any country on aid, thatll all be gone. Not to mention or contribution to the world economy.

Yeah and the bigger power will be europe, where the voice of people have power, there will be less = we do what bush want.

The world will be a better place!

more like the bigger power is russia who is allied and works closely with north korea and iran.

Tj\hose are poor freakin countries, they will never get ore powerfull... Anyway, the only thing that nowadays counts is the economie,we have nukes that destroy the planet... so using them would be very stupid... So who has the best economy, Europe and not china.

Cina is selling stuff becuase tehy never coulf, soon they will rock bottom and then they will invext in africa... An europe will profit from everything,just like the US once did....

Europe>US

You can count europe as one.... Thats why we europeeans will win!

Erm, maybe this is a 'little' bit late, but.....

Give me one example as to when Europe DIDN'T need the help of the United States, or if that's too hard, one example of when the European Union actually worked (and made brits want to join the rest of Euro-land).

Considering this is so late, this is an open question to everyone. Event must be after 1950 :).

Millions of Americans would need to learn how to swim.Robbie_IV

Its an alien bomb xD.

I still dunno why that cracks me up.

First of all if the US just popped off the map....

SEVERE ECONOMIC DEPRESSION WORLDWIDE