What can you do to prepare when you can’t?

“A split vortex sending waves of cold into North America, Europe and Russia is what a warmer ocean does.”

Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images

“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” — Revelation 16:10

Suppose for a moment that you lived in, say, Syria in 2001, and through some special gift of clairvoyance, you knew what lay ahead in the coming decades.

Most of those around you seem utterly clueless. Your country has been ruled by Hafez al-Assad, who declared himself President following a bloodless coup d’etat in 1971. Over most of your life, Assad had led what was called the Corrective Movement. Assad’s program was economic socialism, strengthening the private sector’s role in the economy, drawing a sharp line between church and state, and encouraging multiculturalism. While

Hafez al-Assad

Assad was minority Alawite, he had reached out to bring ethnic Sunnis into senior positions in his government, the military, and the Ba’ath party. He attended Sunni Mosque to show his ecumenical spirit. By 2000, the gradual progress of Syrian economic and social development was plain to see. And now, after the old man’s death in November, his son Bashar al-Assad is popularly elected President. Bashar’s wife Asma is Sunni Muslim, born and educated in Great Britain. This is a progressive, up-and-coming country.

You would have to be extraordinarily gifted to see what your world will look like 20 years later. Perhaps you are. You may, for instance, grasp the significance the attack of 911 holds for your nation because within the Sunni branch of Islam, Saudi Arabia is strenuously ultraconservative Wahhabi. They are so fanatical they might even imagine being able to attack the Great Satan and get away with it.

Asma and Bashar

Or you might know that having a foreign policy calling for the dissolution of Israel and the return of Palestine might be bad for your own relations with the Great Satan. It will not escape your notice when the Ba’ath party is banned in neighboring Iraq in 2003 by the Coalition Provisional Authority.

Alawites, such as the Assad family, are a separate ethnoreligious group from Sunni Muslim. In Syria, they are mostly a coastal population, about 11% at the inception of the Corrective Movement and about 17% today. The Qur’an is only one of their holy books and texts, and their interpretation has very little in common with the Sunni interpretation and goes much farther back. Genetic studies trace the Alawites to the Arameans, Canaanites, Hittites, and Mardaites. They were massacred by the Crusaders but later became allies when they realized the Crusaders were not a rival Islamic faction and shared many Alawite beliefs and practices. Alawites drink wine in communion (Ali’s transubstantiated essence) and allow alcohol socially, in moderation. They believe in a divine triad, comprising three aspects of the one God. To Alawites, these aspects, or emanations, appear cyclically in human form throughout history. Alawites also believe in reincarnation.

These beliefs and practices, along with separation of church and state, made the Assad regime one of the most Western-oriented in the Middle East but raised animosity among other branches of Islam. Bashar’s succession of power from his father and push towards free market trade brought about more income inequality, high youth unemployment, and also coincided with the most intense drought ever recorded in the Middle East, the driest 15-year period of the last 900 years, and resulted in widespread crop failure, an increase in food prices and a mass migration of farming families to urban centers. An influx of some 1.5 million refugees from the Iraq War and occupied territories in Israel didn’t help, either.

As part of the wider wave of the Arab Spring protests, discontent with Bashar Assad escalated to armed conflict in 2011. Many long-simmering scores vied to get settled. Salafi jihadist groups (including al-Nusra Front), and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) smelled opportunity and perhaps a shot at a Caliphate. A loose alliance among opposition rebel groups, including the CIA-backed Free Syrian Army, White Helmets and Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, came together ostensibly to root out ISIL and that worried Turkey, who was not all that keen on arming the Kurds. Kurdish separatism extended well across the Turkish border.

Struck on three sides and losing ground, Ba’athist Syria and the Syrian Armed Forces, back peddling, sought help from Iran and Russia. Russia, after initial hesitance, decided Syria would be a good laboratory to try out some of its newest battlefield tech in terrain somewhat less challenging than Afghanistan. In short order, it managed to eradicate most of the opposition forces who did not have US cover and, by staying in contact with forward US command could avoid accidental overkill while surgically removing ISIL, which may or may not have been a US objective. By 2016, Syrian Armed Forces began to retake the country formerly held by jihadists.

But then President Trump made the mistake of sending ground troops and, following the downing of a Russian Su-25 warplane by a US-made SAM, Russia may have rescinded its promise to keep US soldiers and airmen safe. For the US, the war has now reverted to drones and airstrikes, while Russia continues to lend air support and training to the Syrian Armed Forces. According to the Washington Post on January 14, 2019:

Government forces backed by Russia and Iran are pummeling the few remaining rebel-held areas. Turkey has reinforced troops on its border to battle both Kurdish fighters and remaining jihadists, who are trying to defend the shrinking territory they hold.

Both Assad and the Syrian Kurds plan to resume negotiations over autonomy arrangements for Kurdish-majority areas, which displeases the US, who wants Assad out and an alliance with the Kurds, and NATO-ally Turkey, who wants the Kurds out and an alliance with Assad. Just to keep it interesting, since the conflict began Israel has frequently attacked targets there — “thousands” of them, according to IDF General Gadi Eisenkot. Were Saudi Arabia not busy in Yemen they would probably be there too. It is everyone’s free fire zone. US airstrikes alone increased 50% in 2018 and civilian casualties by 215%. Over the past 8 years, hundreds of thousands of Syrian noncombatants have been bombed, starved, or assassinated for their beliefs or ethnicity.

Meanwhile, the US elected an insane, kleptocratic gang to the White House and Senate, is exploding its national debt, and for the first time since WWI, has seen its life expectancy decline for the third year in a row. More USAnians will die in 2019 from opioids than died from the entire Vietnam war. This is what the terminal phase of empire looks like, and it would not be untoward for the US to defund its puppets and proxies and start pulling back from the 70 countries its 800 military bases occupy, while it still can. Alternatively, it could stand back and nuke the planet from space.

So you are a young Syrian in 2001. Do you see all this coming? Probably not. But suppose you did. What would you do?

The smart move could be to get out of Dodge. Take your whole family. Quick as you can, like the cleverest Jews and Gypsies in Germany in the 1930s, you should scrape up enough to leave. Don’t wait around longer than you have to.

Now consider what we all can see happening around us in 20 years. We don’t need much imagination, because the best scientists in the world have already told us what will happen with a fine degree of precision.

We are now at 1 degree Celsius above 1900. The Greenland ice sheet is shrinking. Antarctica is calving large sheets of ice into the Southern Ocean. It is not cooling the ocean as much as the ocean is heating from a futile attempt to keep the atmosphere in equilibrium. Sea level rise is accelerating, more from the thermal expansion of water than from added meltwater. On April 17, 2016 residents of Waller County Texas were walloped by 16.8 inches of rain before noon. That is what a warmer ocean does. Hurricane Harvey dropped 51 inches on the Houston region in 3 days in August 2017.

People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas.

To see a headline like Polar Vortex Splits In Three (January 16, 2019) might have been shocking once but is now accepted. A split vortex sending waves of cold into North America, Europe and Russia is what a warmer ocean does.

According to the National Research Council, each degree C of global temperature increase can be expected to produce:

5-10% changes in precipitation across many regions
3-10% increases in the amount of rain falling during the heaviest precipitation events
5-10% changes in streamflow across many river basins
15% decreases in the annually averaged extent of sea ice across the Arctic Ocean, with 25% decreases in the yearly minimum extent in September
5-15% reductions in the yields of crops as currently grown
200-400% increases in the area burned by wildfire in parts of the western United States

But that is one degree. We are past that now. On current trendline, we will be somewhere between 3 and 5 degrees warmer by the end of the century. That assumes the trend holds, which is by no means certain because many countries are still building more coal electric plants, and the Saudis have a lot more oil.

At two degrees, the NRC says, millions of more people living on coasts will be flooded out. Corals reefs will be gone and toxic plankton blooms will spread, ending much of the commercial seafood industry. Nine out of 10 summer seasons will be as hot as the hottest summer between 1980 and 2000. Crop production will decline drastically. Water shortages will be endemic as stream flows are reduced by 20 to 30%. Nuclear plants will be unable to cool themselves from rivers or coastal water and will close.

Half a degree over 2? More severe winter freezes. More heat waves, more crop losses, more water shortages, more inundated coastal cities, more disease and conflict, millions more suffering. At 3 to 5 degrees, all else being equal, sea levels will rise about 4 to 7.5 meters (13-24 feet). Deglaciation of the West Antarctic ice sheet could raise the ocean 5 meters more. These changes will unfold slowly and even halting emissions after 2020 won’t prevent what is already in the pipeline. The climate will continue to warm for several more centuries until it reaches its new equilibrium temperature based upon the changed chemistry. That could be at 7 degrees, 9 degrees, 12 degrees, we really don’t know. We just know it is a lot hotter than mammals like homo can tolerate. Bees gone, butterflies gone, birds gone, whales and dolphins gone, and then we’re gone too.

So here you are now, young Syrian. You can see what lies ahead. Where do you go to hide? What do you do to prepare?

We are all Syrians now.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

— Dylan Thomas, 1947

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132 Comments on "What can you do to prepare when you can’t?"

JuanP on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:11 pm

these are my comments
Davy on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 11:05 am
Davy on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 11:20 am

JuanP trivia on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:15 pm

I was kicked out of Uruguay at a young age. The US opened their doors for me now I shit on Americans whenever I can. Why, because the P in JuanP is for prick. I am a Miami Beach prick living off daddy’s dime. I surf and have fun and could give a shit about anyone or the world. OH, this bad behavior is justified by the fact I got a vasectomy.

Antius on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:20 pm

John Bercow is a left-wing Jew of New Labour ilk. Obsessed with ‘equality’, scornful of anything that indicates the goyum flexing their national consciousness. Not someone I would call a friend or ally in any capacity.

If this man is in favour of anything, then a free Englishman should be extremely suspicious of it.

Davy on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:23 pm

“Antius is entirely correct. A Neo-Bolshevik revolution is going to be attempted in the US and nowhere else. Reason: the presence of 7-9 million of so of our resident (((mobster-types)))”
Sure clogged, you should know you follow all the tabloid alternative sites that say so.

“This time it is going to a revolution centered around racial egalitarianism rather than USSR economic egalitarianism. The anti-white genocidal intent should be taken literally.”
Nonsense, clogged. There will be some race conflict but Americans are used to it. There are very few troublemakers like MOB. They just have big mouths. You are very mistaken.

“This is exactly what the rest of Europe is not going to agree to. The rest of Europe is not interested in being dominated by Germany and France.” Oh really? And how would you know that? More exceptionalist wishful thinking. It applies to Britain alright, but not to the rest of Europe.”
Yea, clogged, why do you think there is so much political turmoil at the EU level? There is a new game in town and it ain’t all Germany and France anymore pushing their brand of Europe.

Cloggie on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:26 pm

European army.

US neocons hates the idea (perfect reason to press ahead with the project):

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-european-army-would-be-total-disaster-37817

Unlike its main enemy (Russia) or its muscular big brother (the U.S.)

Haha, in your wet dreams! Russia is a European nation, you aren’t. Not yet.

British officials have already rejected the idea of an EU army as undermining and duplicating NATO.

You mean the very same British who are now leaving? Brexit is the #1 opportunity to get the project started in earnest that was always blocked by the British in the past and Trump gave his blessing in that he demanded more EU military spending. On top of that he repeatedly questioned NATO, so what do you expect.

Berlusconi is coming back!

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/908338/Berlusconi-Italy-election-2018-EU-army-Brussels-Berlusconi-nuevo-look

“EU ARMY: Berlusconi backs ‘common defence’ to make Europe a ‘world power'”

So much for a European army being a French-German pet project.

http://time.com/5506238/silvio-berlusconi-european-parliament-italy-scandal/

There is not a chance in hell that America can escape our protection.lol!

Cloggie on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:37 pm

If this man is in favour of anything, then a free Englishman should be extremely suspicious of it.

Not that you suggest otherwise, but it was der Spiegel’s idea, not mine.

Cloggie on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:45 pm

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/patrick-j-buchanan/age-70-time-rethink-nato

“Patrick Buchanan: At Age 70, Time to Rethink NATO”

Trump is president today because the American people concluded that our foreign policy elite, with their endless interventions where no vital U.S. interest was imperiled, had bled and virtually bankrupted us, while kicking away all of the fruits of our Cold War victory.

One wonders who exactly Buchanan means when he talks about “our foreign policy elite”?

Asking the question is answering it.

Davy on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 12:46 pm

European army. – dead on arrival

I will believe it when I see it lol

Cloggie on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 2:41 pm

European army. – dead on arrival

I will believe it when I see it lol

That’s the same with everything. According to you everything will remain the same for all eternity. Because you love the status quo, where the entire world is busy to ensure that you are going to be removed from pole position. Your time is up.

Davy on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 2:47 pm

“That’s the same with everything.”
Nope, just with your fantasy pronouncements. I don’t knock reality

According to you everything will remain the same for all eternity.
Nonsense

“Because you love the status quo, where the entire world is busy to ensure that you are going to be removed from pole position. Your time is up.”
Translation: clogged: I am bored and have nothing to say
Davy: clogged why you spam 20/7 you burn out. You are obviously burnt out.

Cloggie on Tue, 22nd Jan 2019 3:02 pm

The first HQ is to leave the UK, the very British company Dyson. It’s owner nota bene supported Brexit:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6619953/James-Dyson-relocates-SINGAPORE-despite-voting-Brexit.html

“Sir James Dyson relocates his head office to SINGAPORE despite voting for Brexit and backing a no deal – but insists it is NOT because of leaving the EU”

Mr Brexit Farage has two children and these have both German passports:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5634597/Nigel-Farage-admits-two-children-GERMAN-passports.html

“Nigel Farage admits two of his children have GERMAN passports and will still be able to travel freely in Europe after Brexit”

Another hard-core Brexiteer is taking no chances:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-jacob-rees-mogg-scm-ireland-city-move-eu-withdrawal-dublin-a8398041.html

“Brexit: Jacob Rees-Mogg defends Ireland move by City firm he co-founded ahead of EU withdrawal”

Cloggie on Wed, 23rd Jan 2019 9:56 pm

The collapse will be political. Failed state. Pelosi: Trump no longer welcome in the House to deliver State of the Union Address:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/politics/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-state-of-the-union/index.html

(the sooner the US and West fall apart, the better)

Regime change! After US-backed coup, Venezuela has now 2 presidents:

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/23/americas/venezuela-protests/index.html

LAB-CON parliamentary plot in the works to circumvent May and Brexiteers to delay Brexit with 9 months:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6625399/Theresa-privately-resigned-delaying-Brexit-nine-months.html

“Theresa May is ‘privately RESIGNED to delaying Brexit by nine months if MPs vote for an extension of Article 50 next week’ – despite her warning it won’t solve the issue”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/news/article-6624651/Brexit-deal-unleash-British-industry-Westminster-stalemate-casts-shadow-economy.html

“Brexit deal will unleash British industry but stalemate in Westminster casts a shadow over the economy, says Bank of England’s chief economist”

(Sign the damned thing and get it over with)

British population has enough, sign already:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6623623/Theresa-Mays-deal-acceptable-Brexit-outcome-voters.html

“Theresa May’s deal is the ‘most acceptable’ Brexit outcome for voters with nearly half saying they could live with it, poll finds”

All the cards. EU: Brexit delay only if you know what you want. And we want these 39B regardless

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6623135/The-EU-WONT-sign-Brexit-delay-unless-MPs-agree-way-forward-warns-Barnier.html

“The EU WON’T sign off a Brexit delay unless MPs can agree on a way forward, warns Barnier – as he vows the UK will STILL have to settle £39bn divorce bill even if there is no deal”

I AM THE MOB on Wed, 23rd Jan 2019 10:25 pm

Florida Couple Allegedly Stole $5M to Prep for ‘Fall of US Government’

http://www.newser.com/story/270326/couple-allegedly-stole-5m-to-prep-for-fall-of-us-government.html

I AM THE MOB on Wed, 23rd Jan 2019 10:29 pm

Clogg

You stupid ass..Stop spamming fake news from daily mail..It was banned by wiki for fake stories..It was voted the least trustworthy by UK citizens..And given a one out five stars by Microsoft..
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jan/23/dont-trust-daily-mail-website-microsoft-browser-warns-users?fbclid=IwAR27mNOmQ7z3dThen8h6dEYxZH_D3b0sKn-zgpIRdmjWXtWTpkuv85Q0mto

You are so cringy..And ignorant..And you think you are going to topple the worlds most powerful?

The only reason you are alive is due to fossil fuels and no natural predators left.

I AM THE MOB on Wed, 23rd Jan 2019 10:41 pm

Prepping is futile

It is not possible to defend a farm… attackers will kill you when you venture out to weed or sow or harvest… they will get into your farm at night and raid the crop and kill the animals and rape your wife ..

makati1 on Wed, 23rd Jan 2019 10:56 pm

So MOB, we should take advice from a suicidal snowflake? A so-called adult(?) with a 12 year old’s obsession with sex and violence? Prepping is better than ending up as a thug’s boy toy, your future. LMAO

Cloggie on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 4:50 am

Airbus threatens UK with departure in case of no-deal Brexit:

http://m.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/airbus-chef-tom-enders-bitte-hoert-nicht-auf-den-wahnsinn-der-brexiter-a-1249674.html

Expect Shell, Unilever, BA, etc to follow.

#HangBorisFarage

Cloggie on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 4:58 am

Global Nritain latest:

BoJo got 10k quid for delivering no deal Brexit speech in front of JCB vehicle:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6626973/Boris-Johnson-received-10-000-donation-JCB-boss.html

#BoughtAndPaidForPoliticians

Cloggie on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 6:05 am

Brexit is a stupid idea latest:

Dutch government in talks with no less than 250 UK firms in order to lure them to Holland (not that Holland with full employment has much spare workers to populate these firms)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6627171/Airbus-slams-disgraceful-Brexit-chaos-says-leave-Britain-no-deal.html

Davy on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 6:44 am

“PTSD: The Price You Pay For Survival”
https://tinyurl.com/ybpyyhnj

“Something a lot of people forget when they think about survival is what happens after you’ve survived. When you get through something terrible, there’s always a price you must pay for your survival. You won’t get through it unscathed. Oftentimes, that price is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. This is a very real condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a horrifying event or series of events. You can learn more about PTSD here on the VA website. Once called “shell shock” or “battle fatigue syndrome” it can affect more than just soldiers. You can’t survive something awful and expect to live unscathed. PTSD isn’t a symptom of weakness. It’s a sign that you have a conscience and a heart. It’s a sign that you love and you care. It’s part of being a survivor, and that’s why all of us are here – we want to survive.”

Davy on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 6:45 am

I am still a doomer who hopes for a civilization transformation. If that does not work then I prepare for the worst. This makes me a prepper. I do this academically and as a hobby of sorts. I am living what I preach. I am preaching real green for the individual. I have been doing prepping in earnest since 2005. In 2005 I was an extreme prepper. I am now a moderate and I have done most of the steps. I am now to the part of long term prepping for a civilization postmodern if it comes to that. If it transitions then I am ready for that too. That is the easy part.

I started my doom research back in 1999 around Y2K. I was exposed to peak oil and climate change in 85 in college. Since 2010 I have reorganized my life around a permaculture life complete with the basics of survival. This consists of short term and longer term efforts. I have also built up a library and storehouse of equipment for a transformation of civilization good or bad. If we don’t collapse I am preaching real green. If we do I am still preaching real green but with a different angle. I call this my monastery to save the best I can for the collapse process ahead.

I am on the fence if we will collapse. Maybe we will make a transformation and maybe even a transition. I posted the above article because of the one tough question I have and what happens if you have done what I have done and then you are overwhelmed by migration and refugees. These people will be traumatized and in need. Let’s say I am not and in decent enough shape. How much can you give up and still remain whole. How deadly will you need to be with security? Let’s say you are not subjected to trauma from some kind of collapse but you may be if you have to kill people to protect yourself. How many of you have killed someone? That will surely be traumatic. What about family that don’t make it? So part of your education as a doomer and prepper is dealing with loss and trauma that could be ahead. The reality is you won’t know how you will do until it happens. I can draw on my life and my experiences. I have had a tough life at times. Lately life has been good so am I getting weak? I think about these things daily as part of my prep effort. Mentally prep is as important as the physical and material side. You have to think about death and dying to be ready for it and even if ready you are never really ready.

DavyScum on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 7:11 am

I am DavyScum, hear me fart everybody (I mean roar).

Pervert JuanP on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 7:43 am

DavyScum on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 7:11 am

I am the dumbass that wrote this. I have a perverted mind of what is contributing and what is not. BTW, I have Asperger Syndrome. Can’t you tell?

peakyeast on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 7:50 am

I am not sure real survivors needs to farm. When I went through the garden we have (fallow for about 15-20years) it was full of so-called weeds…

Stinging nettles for example, but also many others.

If you look them up they are mostly edible and it actually takes an intense effort to eradicate them from each sq.meter.

I wonder if I could survive on self-spreading weeds combined with a modest meat intake. The amounts of weeds seems plenty at least.

FuelShortageComingYouAreDeadLoser on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 8:34 am

Growing a garden take too much energy. Better to become nomadic. Carry snare wire to catch rabbit, fox.

Wild edible is the way to go. I have this bookj

https://www.amazon.ca/Edible-Wild-Plants-Foods-Plate/dp/1423601505/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1548340004&sr=1-7&keywords=edible+plant

The book describe the 5 most common edible pant in North America. and how to growth them.

Modify a utility trailer and use it at you home. Easier to look incognito in the city.
Carry with you a push bike with a trailer. Once the gasoline run out use your bike.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f15138MWC4o
This is one example. I could not find a better example but it gives you the ideal

FuelShortageComingYouAreDeadLoser on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 8:37 am

This is a better utility trailer transformation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE70KP5eVn4

FuelShortageComingYouAreDeadLoser on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 9:54 am

The goal is to move from lake to lake using logging road up north in the boreal forest. Plenty of lakes with fish in it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCL-PMDlGA

Cloggie on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 11:46 am

“Give him his wall!”

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/davos-nobelpreistraeger-robert-shiller-ueber-donald-trump-a-1249593.html

Top US economist Robert Shiller opines that Congress should Trump his wall.

I AM THE MOB on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 2:05 pm

Fuel shortage

Love the handle! Yup its coming and say good bye to the global economy when it does..

The US will likely be the only one left standing!

While visions of sugar plumbs dance in cloggs head..

LOL

I AM THE MOB on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 2:05 pm

Putin: Foreign interference in Venezuela’s internal affairs grossly violates international law

https://www.rt.com/news/449630-putin-foreign-interference-in-venezuela/?utm_source=browser&utm_medium=push_notifications&utm_campaign=push_notifications

makati1 on Thu, 24th Jan 2019 5:52 pm

MOB, “The US will likely be the only one left standing”. Dream on. It will be the first to fall and it has nothing to recover with. Asia will be just fine.

If oil has to actually make a profit, the US will be importing a lot more than now and at much higher prices. OR, the oil industry will be nationalized and only the government/military/corporates will have access and your taxes will pay for it.

Oil is not going to disappear, just decline in volume. It will be priced at its real value and you will not be able to afford it. It will be a huge shock to spoiled Americans who will have to adjust to living a 3rd world lifestyle. But, life will go on, just not BAU.

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