Fall of the States?

News all over the world commonly point out the irresistible rise of threats to the international security of the mainland States and its allies. However, the question is that would they be united enough to counter such a terror attack or would they rattle and one-by-one disintegrate due to the name each state carries with her assuming her being part of the whole in the past?

In my opinion, I guess not. Each state, now in battle with world terrorism while trying to succumb its role as an active member, will not break away from the region the fact that, just like in building the foundation of a skyscraper, taking out one column would make the whole thing unstable and prone to disaster unless carefully planned by a sophisticated engineer. A state's decision would more likely be inclined to guaranteeing itself and the whole of the States the security she has to maintain being an obligation that could never be disregarded even from the start of its membership, unless she disowns it and strengthens her hostility with the other neighboring states.

Still, the fate of the States would rather be unknown with the reason that the whole world itself might just suffer again another untimely war - something truly imminent in the existence of nuclear and advanced technologies in other parts of the world. History might just be repeating itself again, now being softly masked by the double-pointed economic ties every nation offers and the years-long trademark of global financial crisis the world is experiencing.

If small disparities are not settled at present, the future will go to ruins. I just wish children know why they're still being counted on by their motherland, knowing that they themselves might just be involved again in another crisis the present is currently battling. This light critique ends up saying that a Utopian society can never exist unless we all die at the same time and reset the game of life.

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