{"id":160398,"date":"2023-03-18T15:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T19:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=160398"},"modified":"2023-03-19T06:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T10:23:11","slug":"not-much-time-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=160398","title":{"rendered":"<h2>Not Much Time Left\u2026..<\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Capitalist Eric<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Truth is treason in an empire of lies.<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So the question was posed to me last night:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now that we finally have a major situation unfolding\u00a0and the dominoes are officially falling. I trust your analysis of timelines.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>My main question is time. I\u2019m not holding you to anything. I believe you\u2019re all about Truth, and extremely well grounded in reality.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Time my friend. How much time do we have left? And are you envisioning a rapid or a prolonged deterioration from here?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The short answer is, \u201cnobody knows.\u201d\u00a0 I understand you\u2019d prefer a more solid\u00a0answer than that, but the problem is that nobody has any real idea..\u00a0 Frankly, I\u2019m surprised we\u2019ve made it this far.\u00a0 This shouldn\u2019t be a surprise, as I\u2019ve previously posted my opinions, basically saying \u201cany day now\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Events are moving so rapidly, now, with the failure of three banks in the past week, and the desperation moves by the Federal Reserve to keep the house of cards from collapsing, are now obvious. Cracks have been seen in the dam for quite a while; now the spider-webbing is accelerating, water is starting to escape.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still of the opinion that the banks will do a \u201cbanking holiday\u201d on a Friday, preferably before a\u00a0<strong>3-day<\/strong>\u00a0weekend, as that\u2019ll prevent people from having anyone to actively protest for at least 3 days, while the politicians figure out what their \u201cstory\u201d will be\u2026\u00a0 and get their own pay-offs.\u00a0 The next 3-day weekend for the USA will be April 7-9, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>But if things are falling apart at a much faster rate, it\u2019ll obviously be earlier.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t believe it will be a slow grind, happening over years\u2026\u00a0 but over a period of weeks to a few months, before the crash-and-burn is over, and we\u2019re left fighting to survive.\u00a0 \u00a0While the conditions and overall events will be largely the same as what has happened throughout history with all fiat currencies, the\u00a0<em>speed\u00a0at which things are occurring<\/em>\u00a0are much faster; another byproduct of technology, information-sharing and alternatives to government-controlled MSM.<\/p>\n<p>Understand, though, the Federal Reserve probably won\u2019t be a direct trigger of the economic collapse.\u00a0 They have established the conditions, so that it will happen, and cannot be avoided.\u00a0 Michael Yon made a great point, using forests as an example: if you want a forest fire, you just let undergrowth be uncleared, fail to manage it, and then have a nice hot summer, and the conditions become such that a forest fire WILL start, whether due to careless campers lighting a campfire or a lightning strike from a summer storm.\u00a0 Once the conditions are set, it WILL happen, regardless of what the actual spark is.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gmail-wp-block-image gmail-size-large gmail-is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalisteric.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/03\/wildfire.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"3595688312\" data-slb-group=\"26915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gmail-wp-image-748\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalisteric.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/03\/wildfire.jpg?w=612\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>I summarized in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/capitalisteric.wordpress.com\/2022\/03\/31\/crash-positions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>\u201cCrash Positions,\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the results I expect to see as the financial collapse gets into high gear. Instead of me rehashing it, I would ask that you please read it in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions are ripe for dollar collapse, due to a loss of confidence in the USA:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The EU is fracturing, as Germany will be forced to face the fact that they\u2019ve been sacrificed like a Bishop on a chessboard, in the Ukraine conflict.\u00a0 They will be forced- sooner or later- to leave the EU\u00a0and\u00a0NATO, and go to Russia, hat in hand, to beg for gas.\u00a0 They will do this, or they will die.\u00a0 It really is that simple.<\/li>\n<li>Once Russia pulverizes Ukraine- due to really get rolling at any time now- NATO will no longer be viable, and the European coalition will fail.\u00a0 The individual leaders will be forced to face that the USA is no longer the \u201cgood guy\u201d but very much the \u201cbaddie,\u201d and that they\u2019ve been used and abused.\u00a0 Public opinion regarding the USA will swing negative, the dollar losing standing along with it.<\/li>\n<li>The Afghan withdrawal debacle has eroded trust from Saudi Arabia, who is now accepting other currencies than the US dollar for oil\u2026\u00a0 This is no surprise.\u00a0 What WILL be a surprise will be when Saudi Arabia (the progenitor of \u201cOperation Sand Man\u201d) repudiates the dollar.\u00a0 This is especially likely now that China has brokered a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran.<\/li>\n<li>Given the war-footing that China is on, to retake Taiwan, prior to the start of operations, they will cease all shipments of goods to the USA, weakening the USA with supply-chain disruptions, before \u201cfestivities\u201d start over Taiwan.\u00a0 They may- at the same time- repudiate the dollar, which would (again) erode confidence in it as the worlds\u2019 reserve currency.<\/li>\n<li>Since all of the BRICS+ nations have been trading their US dollars for physical gold, there\u00a0<strong>will come a time<\/strong>\u00a0when pretty much all of the dollars held by the other countries will have been converted to gold (at prices artificially suppressed by the US government), at which\u00a0point the international repudiation of the dollar\u00a0<strong>will\u00a0<\/strong>commence., and then it\u2019ll be \u201cgame over.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One economist I was watching stated the dollar will be done when people no longer have faith in it.\u00a0 They may come as a results of bank-runs and financial collapse, it may come via war, as China and Russia go kinetic against the USA and all the other countries stuck in the Western financial Ponzi scheme, or it may be something which we haven\u2019t even\u00a0<em>considered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full impacts of this economic collapse will be brutal, especially so on the Western countries who\u2019ve lived under the thrall of the fiat-banking systems for the past 200 years.\u00a0 The price to be paid, in my opinion, will\u00a0<em>end<\/em>\u00a0Western civilization as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Those people who specialized in liberal-arts degrees, enjoy arguing the merits of \u201cdemocratic socialism\u201d versus \u201cnational socialism,\u201d are \u201cwoke,\u201d believe a man can- through sheer\u00a0<em>willpower-\u00a0<\/em>transform into a woman, or vice versa\u2026\u00a0 Those people who \u201cidentify\u201d as whatever ridiculous demographic of the day, or have an entitlement mindset and believe in \u201cwhite privilege,\u201d all of the people who take their kids to LGBTQXYZ++ \u201cpride\u201d events, are doomed to become worm-food, prematurely.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gmail-wp-block-image gmail-size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalisteric.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/03\/dachau-bodies.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"4215417085\" data-slb-group=\"26915\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gmail-wp-image-750\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalisteric.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/03\/dachau-bodies.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Life is going to be\u00a0<em>tough<\/em>, and people who are demonstrably weak-willed sheep will be slaughtered pretty much out of hand.\u00a0 They lack the mental fortitude to stand up for anything, and will be unable to save themselves, much less civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Something to keep in mind is that the Western countries- members of the EU, NATO, Japan and the UK- all use fiat-money systems, yet they produce\u00a0<em>nothing<\/em>\u00a0of consequence.\u00a0 All told they make up a population of ~1 billion people; the other 7 billion people are represented by the BRICS+ countries.\u00a0 So it\u2019s simply a matter of time before this happens.\u00a0 Something we always assume, is that\u00a0China will absolutely INSIST on being the new worlds\u2019 reserve currency\u2026\u00a0 but that isn\u2019t actually needed.\u00a0 They just need to make sure the dollar\u00a0<em>isn\u2019t<\/em>\u00a0it, and that would be enough.\u00a0 Nobody will switch to the Euro or the GBP or the Yen, because they\u2019re all worthless, too.<\/p>\n<p>Some unambiguous signals that the Shit has truly Hit The Fan, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The FDIC has no more funds to insure banks accounts, and the Federal Government is unable to recapitalize the FDIC (for whatever reason)<\/li>\n<li>The first \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d bank\u00a0<em>does<\/em>\u00a0fail, and the government cannot stop it with whatever tools they have available (this includes international banks such as Credit Suisse)<\/li>\n<li>China halts all exports to the USA.<\/li>\n<li>China, India or Saudi Arabia repudiate the use of the dollar for international trade.<\/li>\n<li>Germany leaves the EU and\/or NATO.<\/li>\n<li>The US mint stops all sales of gold to private buyers.<\/li>\n<li>The US government declares \u201cmartial law\u201d in the USA.<\/li>\n<li>The US government activates the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disastercenter.com\/laworder\/laworder.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><strong>National Emergencies<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0executive orders where they take over everything, and the citizens are now slaves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2023\/03\/capitalist-eric-not-much-time-left\/\">https:\/\/jameshfetzer.org\/2023\/03\/capitalist-eric-not-much-time-left\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}