What Happens to the Western Hemisphere?

For Ireland to become the England, it would have to have an Ireland off of it. But I don't think necessarily we wouldn't eventually see capitalism emerge just out of some sort of response to a crisis that we couldn't even anticipate. The difference here is that we might get capitalism in the year 3000 with the fighting between the various land-based empires that now dominate Europe. And that is just so different that we can't even predict what it was.