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This timeline is part of a larger project, and am posting here to have its plausibility get a nice sweep through. Do be warned, many details are still vague at this point, because of complications going on in the background, among other reasons.

2012: Recession double dips, leading to Romney gaining the Presidency.

2016: Economy has only gotten worse, to the point of Great Depression levels all over again. The Euro has drowned all its members and everyone near it into one of the largest economic crashes in world history, with it being unable to remove members, and the stubborn attachment to it. Germany's worst nightmares come true eventually with severe stagflation occurring, with hyperinflation resulting whenever the states attempting to go off the Euro.

Euro crash has resulted in the United Kingdom experiencing a crash worse than the Great Depression, while Russia is plunged into political chaos.

2018: A Constitutional Convention is attempted to fix structural problems with the US government, like with corporate corruption. It ends in failure, resulting in a massive spike in suicide rate as many see the, "end of the US," politically from these events, as the Constitution has become nothing but a scrap of paper with no meaning. The economy continues to be around 25% unemployment, resulting from not only deflation, but also massive debt preventing any sort of traditional statist relief.

Within the same year, a massive riot breaks out in New York City after a protest on Wall Street turns violent. Thousands are killed by police and National Guard units intervening, and violence caused by the rioters. A significant portion of New York City burns from molotov usage, adding to the chaos. It's the largest riot in recent US history, being even larger than the L.A. riots.

Throughout this, China has barely scrapped by, with its own bubble bursting much earlier. Only drastic intervention by the Chinese government has kept the crash under control enough to prevent questions of legitimacy. Ironically, because of the massive currency devaluation occurring to the rest of the world, China now holds the world's reserve currency.
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