Start ticking off the reasons given and then add it all up.
People used to wonder if it was going to be a slow or fast collapse.
Pretty sure six months is fairly rapid.
Europe, including Britain, is utterly screwed.
Skuh-Rood.
We won’t be too far behind but I don’t see a complete collapse here just yet.
China has already got BUKU economic problems they are desperately trying to hide.
When Europe goes, China will be right behind them.
No markets for their Chineseium exports at that point.
That’s when it’s going to be our turn.
Only because of the deliberate destruction of our energy sector.
Ironically, the one country the Dementia Patient In Chief has desperately been trying to harm, Russia, is more than likely going to come out of all of this relatively unscathed.
That will give them plenty of wiggle room to finish off the Ukrainians.
Eastern Europe is going to be left wide open then.
No fuel to do a damn thing with.
The one unknown in my opinion, is whether Israel and Iran are going to decide to dance.
Fuuuked. That’s where we are at right now. We best be looking for old timey tools to start doing things with, might not be any energy to use here pretty soon. Stupid fucks. If you haven’t stocked up on garden seeds, some garden dirt, some fertilizer, now is the time to get into high gear on that stuff. Shortbus joe is gonna speed up his agenda soon.
Yup, Yup and Yup.
For most people the stocking up on gardening supplies advice is a waste of time. Gardening is a skill and you don’t just throw seeds at the ground and get food and most simply don’t have the skills or knowledge.
It is not a matter of if but when Israel and Iran get busy, if we get where I think we are going, Israel will flatten Iran as we are why they don’t right now. This is a religious war and they are always nasty and the Sunnis in the area don’t care what happens to Iran.
I remember a lecture I sat in on back in the 1980’s at CGSC about EMP.
we might not get one, but at this point it will not matter.
once the power goes out. people will start to die. people in hospitals first..
then food will start to go bad, people will start to starve- they die.
cold will kill a lot more off as they freeze to death while trying to keep warm.
people fight over a fucking toaster on black Friday what do you think they do over a can of stew ?
we are already seeing the breakdown of law and order in the cities. this will get a lot worse FAST.
no power means no clean water. think about that, more people die from bad water and all the shit you can get from it than anything else.
no one can stand alone. you going to need a small town/area where people come together for the common good.
it better to have hard copy books than just you computer for storing what you need to know.
might be a good time to get to know the Amish people in your area.
An important consideration not mentioned here is the vast difference between other countries and the U.S.
China is state/state is China.
Yurp is one large miasma of administrative morass.
Britian is parlimentarian cum totalitarian.
The U.S. is The People.
In the former, the crippling of government brings down the people. In the latter, The People rejoice in limited government.
Sure, certainly, there are outliers, both in blocks and individually. But as a whole, it will be as said.
Slowly then all of the sudden.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
If you want to know what’s coming next, that last parts of Atlas Shrugged grafted onto the Comanche depredations on the Texas plains could be considered clues.
The countries without firearms owned by citizens will be the first succumb IMHO. China, most of the EU, parts of Russia, most of S. America. In the USA, it will blue states as Demonrat run local .govs and states are already hellholes/shitholes. In thee years or less, the world will be a patch work of unrecognizable local war lord controlled area’s.
Read a piece on ZH this AM on the size of the intervention required for the Fed to stifle inflation. The inference is it isn’t doable. U.S. and most other country’s debt is insurmountable given the state of the world economy going forward. Adding up all of the debt owed to central banks, except for maybe Russia, not China, is already past the tipping point.
With a worldwide poor harvest due to excessive heat and drought this year (I’m NOT talking about glowbull warming just a slightly abnormal temperature/precipitation cycle based on history) around the world, the crash is coming this winter or spring next year.
That’s my $0.02, whatever that’s worth these days.
Nemo, due to rampart inflation that $0.02 is now -$34.26 in arrears as to what you owe and one of those 87,000 IRS agents will be knocking shortly on your door for collection, oh, and you owe now $877.00 in penalties and fees.
So a couple of those 87000 you know who have been knocking on my door these last couple days that I haven’t answered? I just pretend I’m not home. ;-))
Another nice thought – before China crashes they will probably start launching, in an attempt to distract their population using the old tried-and-true method.
Ladies and Germs, we WILL survive. We are AMERICANS, and once the weeding out of the unfit is over, we will pull together and get back on our feet. Period.
Have faith, y’all. Yeah, it will go to hell rather quickly, but most of us here will hunker down and keep going. Gonna be nasty while it lasts though.
SMOD for President! ;P
I will survive. I can grow plants in concrete if I have to. luckily I live in Iowa so it is a lot easier. As to storing food, canning can be done fairly easily and I have jars and lids and seals. Managed to find some primers for my muzzle loader so that is gtg for a couple of years. Need to get some sand bags but will hold off on that till things go a little more pear shaped.
Need to finalize those preps a Tempus fugit. Better to have and not need that need and not have.
The collapse will happen the same way people go bankrupt. Slow at first….then all of a sudden.