Superpower collapse speed

There are two themes here.

First, a historical note on how fast Superpowers can collapse:

In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty#:~:text=The%20New%20Union%20Treaty%20(Russian,and%20reform%20the%20Soviet%20Union.)

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