As the Soviet Union became bankrupted by insane foreign wars, its oligarchs started looting everything in sight, until finally all that was left was Russia, the super rich, and the dictator.
Here, as our American Empire falls, the same exact thing is happening. Change cannot come about unless there is a crisis, so the Trump gang is spending us into the poorhouse, and when the economy really tanks, the oligarchy loots everything that isn't nailed down. They do that, did that, with massive unneeded tax cuts for them's that got.
I cringe when I look at the changes, from the destruction of our once "light in the darkness" public colleges, to making our military, well, one would expect them to adopt brown shirts at some point.
Happens to most countries in late stage capitalism...great wealth concentrates in fewer and fewer greedy hands, and the economic pyramid becomes weird. At the end the Russians couldn't pay the power bills for their foreign bases...