[story][Fenspace Alternates] The South Is Rising, Someone Get A Hammer

[Foxboy]

I'd prefer the US-only shift myself. For an example of just what the world can get up to without the US: I recommend "Without Warning" and "after America" by John Birmingham

See, if the US is effectively "Third World country, like it should be (non-America-centric worldview example)," then they can get on with what's really important: Shelling the F$CK out of Seoul/Tokyo/Taiwan/Jerusalem/Capital of Breakaway Soviet Republic du Jour, etc., While listening to France ineffectually grousing that the active parties shouldn't be doing it from the secondary UN HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll