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Mike's avatar

Hi Steve, I resonate with almost every word of this article. The most difficult thing that will happen in the next decade is the destruction and reformation of the central world views of hundreds of millions or billions of people. But which ones?

In the end, I think it will be the woke. Our elites can't turn wrenches or drive trucks. Once the pain of the current systems makes 'deplorables' decide to assert their leverage in real terms over our 'betters', they'll take action. Why did that Canadian trucker strike cause such massive overreaction by the government and press? Because it was the spark that could cause a worldwide conflagration of similar acts of defiance. That firestorm cannot be prevented. The biggest unknowns are when it will happen and how kinetic the struggle becomes.

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Dale Price's avatar

"I’m not sure how this ends, but my apocalypse-o-meter isn’t going off on this front."

Mine is. I haven't remotely felt this way since the Wall fell.

One of the many problems with Putin is that he seems to have fallen into the trap of believing his own bullshit. I read just yesterday that he has stashed his ex-wife and children from that marriage in a nuclear shelter complex in Siberia. His concubine and their four kids are in Switzerland with Swiss passports, but that's a separate issue for the Great Monarch. The inner circle is repeating megalomaniacal insanity on loop--the letter from Medvedev to Poland a couple days ago being the most recent example.

I mean, really: this whole invasion was a giant case of believing his own bullshit...and it's filled 10,000+ Russian families with the ultimate grief.

If Putin continues to get crushed by Ukraine--the nation's counterattacks are increasing in scope and success--I can see him using WMDs. And while the budget for rest of Russia's arsenal appears to have gone into oligarchical pockets, the Strategic Rocket Forces are Russia's claim to literal world-breaking power. I cannot imagine those ever rotting on the vine all that significantly.

He escalated to his hypersonic missile, and it's interesting that we have no pictures of the impact zone. Were it a dud, that would be something Ukraine would gleefully note for the world. I have no difficulty seeing him go up the chain as things get worse. And they will, make no mistake.

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