Higgenbotham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 10:15 am
Guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 2:38 am
Guest wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:31 am
Cool Breeze wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:21 am
Will AI ultimately "run the world" via an elite group of people?
Is that what WW3 is all about?
AI is overblown.
I think we are heading for a land of small etho-based villages and towns. WW3 won't change that.
Back to how I was going to start this response (assuming you might be the same poster). I think the EU is going to get blown apart and Europe will be a thousand battlefields. If someone knows how they fit into that and migrates out of the US with that in mind, it is different.
You mean that the EU is heading into civil war and any Americans who enter Europe now should know that?
Is anywhere safe, in your your estimation, Higgenbotham? What are you going to do? (If you want to keep that secret, I'll understand.
Any timeline yet?
I'll try to get to the rest of this later.
guest wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 11:19 am
I think (I know this opinion will ruffle some feathers) that Western whites can now be considered an ethnic group all their own in Western Europe.
Getting to some of the rest of this, first, looking at what guest is saying, let's take that at face value. If that's the case, I would say Western Europe is in deep trouble and, at some point, will explode in violence everywhere where that is true, which he says is everywhere. I'm not sure if civil war would be the right way to put it because in my opinion it won't be that well organized, at least not at first. In my predictions, I referred to it as local strife. "Instead, the population will be culled through starvation, local strife (including settling of long-standing scores) and disease." Local strife basically means localized fighting for resources and localized fighting borne out of hate. Hence, my statement that Europe will be a thousand battlefields.
The reason that is true is because anywhere whites are considered an ethnic group all their own is indicative that the processes I described in the post linked to about social capital have run their course, that social capital is drained out.
The safer areas, in my estimation, are going to be the areas where social capital remains stronger. Those are the areas with lots of red and orange on the county map of the US I linked to, which is old but still should be somewhat accurate. There will be some areas outside of that that will do OK if the government can be maintained at least on the local level and is well run (i.e. lower on the scale of corruption) but that typically goes hand in hand with the red and orange areas.
In my opinion, the big event that kicks off the collapse in earnest will be a large financial collapse, probably the largest in the history of the world. It is getting closer but I can't say when. I've talked about some things to look for such as stocks sink day after day and there are no counter trend rallies. Or such as the Federal Reserve does some rescue and stocks are up in the morning but close much lower. Later, it might be that bank accounts can't be accessed for days or the shelves of big box retail are noticeably empty for weeks, much more than has been seen to this point.
The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is not of much immediate concern to me. It doesn't indicate that this financial collapse is necessarily coming next week or next month. But it does say that it is getting closer and that Federal Reserve actions since 2008 are coming home to roost. There have been a lot of opinions bandied about regarding whether Silicon Valley Bank management or the Federal Reserve is at fault. In the big picture, if long term low interest securities are pumped out for years on end and then it is necessary to raise interest rates a lot and quickly, somebody will be showing losses on those securities. Whoever shows the most losses wasn't paying attention, but let's say everyone is paying attention equally. Then it would take longer for the problems to show up, but they would show up everywhere all at once.