Evening Choombas! Welcome to the MadQueen show!
Today we're going to learn how the United States became part of the third world
Today we're going to talk about the fall of America
It all started as a covert coup in 1989
A group made up of the CIA, NSC, FBI and DEA formed a secret government to run America
behind the president's back
They are known as the Gang of Four
The aim of the Gang of Four was to recover the glory of the American economy, although
their methods were quite disastrous: they isolated the country from external alliances
and when in 1992 the Euromarket was established to balance worldwide economies and the Eurodollar
was adopted as the common currency, America stayed out
By 1993, the Gang of Four had covertly manipulated the American people for over decades, thanks
to the power of the different agencies forming it
As violent terrorist actions became more common, it was apparent the Gang of Four were totally
inefficient or they really didn't care what happened to the people on the street level
This unwillingness to protect the populace while spending billions on international vendettas
led many in the Media, as well as the Government, to search for answers
The crisis that would become the first link to the destruction of the Gang of Four was
the discovery of the "Quiet War" on the European Economic Community
Threatened by the growing power of the Europeans, the Gang of Four began to embark on a suicidal
course of covert aggression, that later would be known as the "Quiet War"
As Europe power grew, the interference of the States was less tolerated, and soon the
European Economic Community was the world power and America was playing second fiddle
Infuriated by this lack of prestige, and also fearful that the space program of the Euros
would also give them military superiority, and in an attempt to appear solvent, the Gang
of Four tried to undermine the European Economic Community structure, using tactics ranging
from stock market fraud to interference in international policies and treaties, and began
manipulating the stock markets of Europe and Asia by hacking directly into the systems
This artificial currency and stock manipulation allowed the Gang to promote an illusion of
American wealth, but once it was discovered by the Europeans, everyone found out
With the implied security of the exchange rate undermined, the system collapsed, in
a disaster that would be called the Crash of the '94
In reaction to the discovery of this fraud, the majority of developed countries immediately
instituted embargoes on United States trade
These embargoes were crippling to America, and it only served to hasten the Collapse
and make the States a third world country
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The second reason for the Collapse was the destruction
of the South America Drug trade and, with
it, the destruction of local economies as well
The governments of the drug producing countries turned their eyes to Europe, desperate to
save their citizens, and Europe provided weapons, food, vehicles, and advisors
The result was that money and manpower desperately needed to rebuild American was siphoned off
to a drug war America couldn't win
The third and final cause of the Collapse was environmental
As the biomes of Earth were despoiled by Corporate greed, who's surprised of that?
and shortsighted policies, who's surprised of that either?
acid rain and changing climates began to make it harder
to grow crops, keep the soil fertile and irrigate effectively
So, in 1994, thanks to the manipulations and the ineptitude of the American Government,
the World Stock Exchange finally collapsed
Human civilization was changed forever
Both the World Bank and the World Stock Exchange were gone
The United States Government had no one to borrow money from
Federal bonds were cashed at a rate so high
that the Government could barely print money fast enough
This devaluated the dollar and accelerated the process
Millions of Americans lost their pensions and investments
Their homes
They became homeless and many died from exposure or violence
obviously, Americans weren't happy and started to revolt
The Government tried to contain it, but the unrest was not limited to "less fortunate"
areas and neighborhoods, and could not be isolated
As a response to the upheavals, the Government declared Martial Law on August 1996
Life in America during martial law was one of the bloodiest periods in human history
Stalin's purges pale by comparison
Over 100 million Americans died during this period, from violence or starvation
With the President and Vice President killed this same month, the remains of the Congress
tried to put a solution to the crisis, but their egos were so swollen it was impossible
to form a coalition
And, still, one of the greater problems was the Gang of Four
By 1997, it was painfully apparent, in Washington at least, that the Gang of Four had been acting
on its own for some time, but President Seward didn't have the balls to combat them as
to do so he would need the army that now was busy trying to keep rioting and looting from
tearing the nation apart, but he was not completely stupid and by instituting the Federal Weapons
Statue, that allows weaponry to be carried openly "for protection of self and property"
he managed to cut rioting a 30%
This new statue is also the reason why you can see so many people wearing weapons openly
in Night City
As the end of the Gang of Four became evident, some command structure of the FBI and CIA
switched sides to help the government eliminate the NSA
This led to a reformation of the surviving agencies: the DEA, CIA, and FBI merged, creating
the National Law Enforcement Division
after the country returned to civilian government in 2004
During the massive confusions in the embattled capital, many of the Free States took the
opportunity to succeed, so California could untie his government from the United States
and create the Free States of California
With the Gang of Four out of sight the covert war against Europe also disappeared, and so
did the reasons to avoid the Eurodollar, so America adopted this currency at last
With the economy devastated, the governments of the world had no other choice than turning
their heads to corporations, the only power structures that survived, or even expanded,
during the collapse, to rebuild world economies
But this is a story that we will talk about some other day:
how the megacorporations became
the power structures of the world of Cyberpunk 2077
Hey Choombas, thanks for watching
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