The way to fix it is to get back in Russia’s good graces, tell the US to fuck off, ditch neoliberalism and do what China is doing: massive state directed investment in industry, infrastructure and renewables (with a side of nuclear energy). None of which they are willing to do. And if they think the decline is just going to be a steady “slow agony”, they are also mistaken. Declines happen slow at first but they accelerate more and more as the system breaks down. Things will go very rapidly then.
The way to fix it is to get back in Russia’s good graces, tell the US to fuck off, ditch neoliberalism and do what China is doing: massive state directed investment in industry, infrastructure and renewables (with a side of nuclear energy). None of which they are willing to do. And if they think the decline is just going to be a steady “slow agony”, they are also mistaken. Declines happen slow at first but they accelerate more and more as the system breaks down. Things will go very rapidly then.