Mine is that since the US is turning more and and more into a scam economy, the problem then becomes that they’ll eventually run out of other people’s money.
The Soviet Union on the other hand had a near unsolvable fossil fuel issue crippling their economy.
They could argue that those are just “Anglo style bread lines”,
where the conservatives are starving its citizens by default
instead of their government demanding farm produce
from large farm owners being handed over to them to feed the poor
and the large farm owners refusing to do so and create a standoff,
while keeping all the food to themselves.