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Geopolitics
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- The US/Russia proxy war in Syria is fast escalating to dangerous levels
- Much of the unrest today was imminently avoidable and sadly ignored
- The US neo-con model is making more enemies both outside and inside America
- The risks of full-blown war breaking out
- What to do to prepare in advance
If you have not yet read Part 1: Making The World A More Dangerous Place available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Look, we’ve given these warnings before and unless you happen to live in one of the unfortunate countries that is being bombed or overtly or covertly supplied with the weapons of war by the west, they seem to not have amounted to much.
Such is the nature of reading tea leaves. Instead of thinking of them as binary outcomes – things that either happened or didn’t happen – think of them as ‘probability fields.’ Like the chance of rolling a three with a 6-sided die vs. the chance of rolling a three with a 20-sided die. The ‘probability field’ of the 6-sided die is a lot higher.
The probabilities and forces that push us closer to and further from war are ever changing and highly complex. They shift with events and decisions, most of which we are unaware of because they are either not reported on or reported with heavy distortion of the truth.
So reading the tea leaves is the best we can do.
Our advice for any war breaking out anywhere in the Middle East, or especially between Russia (or China) and the West would be to have all of your preparations done a year before that moment.
Anything that disrupts global maritime trade, even for a very short while will rock the financial systems of the world. Anything that calls into question the desire or ability of a country to repay its foreign debts (and wars are great excuses to stiff your creditors if they happen to be attacking you) will rock the financial world.
Heck, anything that…
How Things May Well Get Ugly Quickly
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- The US/Russia proxy war in Syria is fast escalating to dangerous levels
- Much of the unrest today was imminently avoidable and sadly ignored
- The US neo-con model is making more enemies both outside and inside America
- The risks of full-blown war breaking out
- What to do to prepare in advance
If you have not yet read Part 1: Making The World A More Dangerous Place available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
Look, we’ve given these warnings before and unless you happen to live in one of the unfortunate countries that is being bombed or overtly or covertly supplied with the weapons of war by the west, they seem to not have amounted to much.
Such is the nature of reading tea leaves. Instead of thinking of them as binary outcomes – things that either happened or didn’t happen – think of them as ‘probability fields.’ Like the chance of rolling a three with a 6-sided die vs. the chance of rolling a three with a 20-sided die. The ‘probability field’ of the 6-sided die is a lot higher.
The probabilities and forces that push us closer to and further from war are ever changing and highly complex. They shift with events and decisions, most of which we are unaware of because they are either not reported on or reported with heavy distortion of the truth.
So reading the tea leaves is the best we can do.
Our advice for any war breaking out anywhere in the Middle East, or especially between Russia (or China) and the West would be to have all of your preparations done a year before that moment.
Anything that disrupts global maritime trade, even for a very short while will rock the financial systems of the world. Anything that calls into question the desire or ability of a country to repay its foreign debts (and wars are great excuses to stiff your creditors if they happen to be attacking you) will rock the financial world.
Heck, anything that…
by
Chris Martenson
Executive Summary
- There's much you can do to reduce your risk in advance of the arrival of a:
- Trade war
- Energy war
- Financial war
- Cyber war
- Grid-down sabotage
- Shooting war
- Nuclear war
- The steps you should prioritze the most right now
If you have not yet read Part 1: Is It Time To Prepare For War? available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
As a preamble, I need to note that I do not enjoy or derive any satisfaction from writing about or spending time on figuring out how to dodge the worst impacts of human behavior. War sits right at the top of my ‘This is stupid’ list, as war represents the idea that all other attempts at being smart or diplomatic have already failed. I'm sorry that I have to spend time writing this report, and I am sorry that you have to spend time considering it. With that said, I feel I have no choice, and somebody has to take on this task. With a heavy heart…
If the West (meaning the US and Europe) decides to further goad Russia, war may be inevitable. Sooner or later, Russia will have to switch from 'response' mode to 'reaction' mode. I’ve previous detailed the reasons for this in previous reports here, here and here.
As (sadly) expected, things have only escalated over the past year, not de-escalated. The West has a serious bone to pick with Russia, yet nobody can really explain what it is or why the conflict exists. (As an aside, I think it’s just bruised neo-con egos over Syria, but it really doesn’t matter what the explanation is at this point.) So, here we are in la-la land.
The consequences of an escalated conflict between Russia and the US/West could range from a very minor skirmish fought over some relatively meaningless items of trade, to an attack on financial markets, all the way to an all-out nuclear exchange.
The question becomes: What, if anything, can we do to prepare?
Lots, as it turns out.
No matter where…
How To Prepare For War
PREVIEW by Chris MartensonExecutive Summary
- There's much you can do to reduce your risk in advance of the arrival of a:
- Trade war
- Energy war
- Financial war
- Cyber war
- Grid-down sabotage
- Shooting war
- Nuclear war
- The steps you should prioritze the most right now
If you have not yet read Part 1: Is It Time To Prepare For War? available free to all readers, please click here to read it first.
As a preamble, I need to note that I do not enjoy or derive any satisfaction from writing about or spending time on figuring out how to dodge the worst impacts of human behavior. War sits right at the top of my ‘This is stupid’ list, as war represents the idea that all other attempts at being smart or diplomatic have already failed. I'm sorry that I have to spend time writing this report, and I am sorry that you have to spend time considering it. With that said, I feel I have no choice, and somebody has to take on this task. With a heavy heart…
If the West (meaning the US and Europe) decides to further goad Russia, war may be inevitable. Sooner or later, Russia will have to switch from 'response' mode to 'reaction' mode. I’ve previous detailed the reasons for this in previous reports here, here and here.
As (sadly) expected, things have only escalated over the past year, not de-escalated. The West has a serious bone to pick with Russia, yet nobody can really explain what it is or why the conflict exists. (As an aside, I think it’s just bruised neo-con egos over Syria, but it really doesn’t matter what the explanation is at this point.) So, here we are in la-la land.
The consequences of an escalated conflict between Russia and the US/West could range from a very minor skirmish fought over some relatively meaningless items of trade, to an attack on financial markets, all the way to an all-out nuclear exchange.
The question becomes: What, if anything, can we do to prepare?
Lots, as it turns out.
No matter where…
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