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The Calm Before the Storm What’s Coming Next

The Calm Before the Storm: What’s Coming Next?

Fergus Mason by Fergus Mason
September 28, 2023
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One thing all good preppers do is keep an eye on the world situation.

Being prepared for anything that happens is great; being prepared for anything that happens and having some advance warning of an approaching crisis is even better.

If you know your preps might be called on in the near future you have the chance to give them a last check, take care of anything on your to-do list and add to your stockpiles.

So, looking around the world right now, should you be counting your canned food and working out where you can squeeze in a few more barrels of water?

Let’s take a look at what’s going on and see if there’s anything preppers should be worrying about.

War and Peace

The Calm Before the Storm What’s Coming NextFor the first time since 2001 the US doesn’t have large troop deployments in a war zone – but that doesn’t mean peace has broken out.

The war in Ukraine has been going on for 18 months now, and while US troops aren’t fighting there, we’re one of the defenders’ main backers.

We’re not at war, but we’re involved in a war – with a country that has thousands of nuclear weapons. Would we be safer staying out of it? Probably not; Europe tried appeasing a land-hungry dictator in the 1930s and we got WWII.

Russia has to be stopped in Ukraine, because if they’re not they’ll get the message that the West in general, and the US in particular, aren’t willing to stand up to aggression anymore.

Related: How The War In Europe Will Affect The US Economy

Russia isn’t the only one that will get that message, either. China is watching what we do, and if we show that we won’t defend our fellow democracies Beijing is likely to invade Taiwan. That could get ugly, and not only because Taiwan has been a US ally for decades.

If China seizes its neighbor, every other democracy in the Pacific is going to be seriously alarmed – including Japan, which might have some historical objections to nuclear weapons, but is capable of making its own any time it wants.

No, we’re not at war right now, but the world’s two most powerful hostile states are acting aggressively, and we’re an obvious target.

Infrastructure

The Calm Before the Storm What’s Coming NextThe US has a lot of infrastructure, but thanks to lack of investment most of it isn’t in great shape. The dangerous part of that is the electrical grid – all of it.

The country can generate enough power in mild weather, but when summer heats up and everyone turns on the aircon demand can beat supply.

Even worse, the vital cables that carry electricity from power plants to our homes is old, poorly maintained and vulnerable to all sorts of problems.

Preppers often focus on the danger of an EMP attack. The reality is that a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun, or even just an unusually hot day, could cause widespread failures and leave large areas of the US without power.

If enough of the grid is damaged, it could trigger a social collapse. This is because there’s a limited supply of replacement parts, and it could take a long time to get things repaired.

If you want to be part of the small few who will not be heavily affected by a grid-down event, I strongly recommend this book. It will help you become independent and self-sufficient on your own property before the unforeseen happens.

The Biden administration is spending money on infrastructure, but it’s going on green projects, not fixing the basics. Some of its plans are even making things worse; there’s huge pressure to switch to electric cars, but the grid doesn’t have the capacity to charge them all.

Economy

The Calm Before the Storm What’s Coming NextThe White House keeps telling us it’s bringing inflation under control. Most prices are still rising, but the increase is slowing down.

Does that mean the economy is in good shape? Well, don’t speak too soon. There are some serious economic threats facing the US right now.

Two years ago, as the country opened up again after the pandemic, economic growth hit 5.9%. Now it’s just 1.1%, and the main reason for that is the rapid rise in interest rates since March 2022.

The Federal Reserve is pushing rates up to control inflation – but with so many Americans already struggling, increasing the cost of borrowing cuts what people can spend and risks knocking us into a recession.

The biggest financial risk of all is the national debt. Biden’s legislative program is built on huge spending bills, and he’s borrowing the money to pay for them.

Related: Rampant Inflation: 10 Things To Do Before It’s Too Late

Congress is now balking at letting him borrow anymore. Right now the House is fighting a vicious battle over whether to authorize spending to continue at last year’s level, or force the administration to cut spending to pre-pandemic levels.

Conservatives are worried that if the White House doesn’t rein in its addiction to debt, we’ll soon reach the point where all our taxes go to paying off the interest. If that happens, the government won’t be able to pay its employees – and social collapse will be just days away.

Social Disorder

The Calm Before the Storm What’s Coming NextNot that our society needs much to push it over the edge these days. Civil unrest is becoming more common. Why?

There are various theories, including the way social media can spread rumors or misinformation quickly, and let troublemakers quickly organize protests – which often degenerate into riots.

It’s now almost routine for unrest to break out whenever someone’s shot in a confrontation with police, and it can take days for order to be restored. State and local government can’t always be relied on to prioritize law and order, either.

For example, a crime-infested six-block “autonomous zone” was allowed to exist in Seattle for three weeks of June 2020. If you’re stuck in an area like that, you’re on your own.

Natural Disasters

Our government and fellow citizens aren’t the only threats, either. Natural disasters are still a hazard, too.

From wildfires to storms, earthquakes to flooding, nature can throw a lot at us – and it can happen at any time.

The aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina showed us just how bad things can get following a disaster, and how long it can take for order to be restored.

Where Are We Now?

So is the world in good shape and all our prepping was unnecessary? Or is this the calm before the storm?

Personally I don’t even think it’s all that calm; the Ukraine war is the most dangerous conflict the world has seen since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, and it could encourage China to do something even more destabilizing. The risk of a larger war is very real.

We’re also facing the danger of collapsing infrastructure, either because of misguided government policies, a natural disaster or things simply wearing out.

We can’t take reliable power for granted anymore, and without it society is going to collapse very quickly. We’re seeing more and more local disorder, and it wouldn’t take much for it to spread across much of the country.

Our economy has calmed down for the moment, but the foundations it stands on are built of massive debt, and they’re shaky. Opposing factions in Congress aren’t willing to compromise anymore, and that could plunge us into a financial crisis at any moment.

The world is a dangerous and unstable place right now, and a crisis could hit with very little warning. Being prepared to survive is more important than ever.

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  1. K. Dog says:
    2 years ago

    War & Peace – Watch for the Red Heifer, ripening in Israel. Temple III = WWIII.

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  2. G Prepped says:
    2 years ago

    Okay. I don’t disagree with the coming economic downfall, especially when the world starts pushing digital money. However, that pic was so misleading. Pick a picture that is realistic. Who’s buying 459 lbs of mangoes? Cost of groceries has definitely increased 20-50% depending on what you get. And pay has not increased. The auto workers’ strike, oil costs increasing, and all of the other expenses that keep going up are making things even worse. The excessive drought across most of North America is increasing costs as producers have to pay more for municipal water, which is leading to depleted aquifers and above ground water sources. I mean, it’s all going to pot! We’re so dry in the southeast that the Gulf of Mexico is back flowing up the Mississippi River affecting drinking water sources. But people still think the government is going to save them. When are these people seriously going to wake up? Not “woke” BS, but actually awake with open eyes. Be ready!

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    • America in sewage says:
      2 years ago

      The cost of food is actually from the collapsing of the US dollar. The American dollar can be reversed by backing our US dollar back the gold standard period!

      The globalist don’t care they are influenced by foreign assets peddling their own agendas.
      A continuing budget McConnell-Schumer bill with more money for Ukraine, it is over folks. “McConnell-Schumer back bill to prevent efforts to subvert presidential election results.” It’s political sausage making in real time BS!
      Solution:
      Build the border wall, along with armed security personnel from the State National Guard rotations from all 50 States. Also units from the active duty military branches of the armed services. Purge the illegals including the daisy chain relatives. The dreamers are by case of American citizenship. All others go home, now!
      BUILD THE WALL, DRILL FOR OIL AND PUT THE AMERICAN DOLLAR BACK ON THE GOLD STANDARD AND SCREW THE TYRANNICAL DIGITAL DOLLAR. THAT WILL GET INTO EVERY PERSONAL PRIVACY ISSUE YOU WILL HAVE.

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  3. Demoncrats in flames says:
    2 years ago

    To pile on to the article:
    The Social Security and Medicare are basically bankrupted by politicians who spouted years ago they would put our taxed money in a “Lock Box” to keep that money safe.
    Well they lied and used that money for more pressing giveaway deals to people who are illegals than Americans.
    We got Billions if not Trillions invested in Ukraine and Billions in modern weapon technology to the Afghan terrorist, that is being reverse engineered by the Chinese, Russians and Iran.

    We have several high profile politicians, activist and bureaucrats that are being bribed by foreign governments. Greed will get the job done for our invading adversaries bringing in their military age males for a take down of America. Why not it has happened before in history. The famous story in the Trojan Horse, it will work with today’s Marxist educated lug nuts in America.

    It was said over 40 years ago there are elements in government that want open borders. It has happened due to distractions of smartphone addiction and social media. The public or the Sheeple have no commonsense to figure out why their America is going down in flames.
    We see Obama’s civilian army made up of Antifa and BLM doing his dirty work. You believe Joe and Harris are running their elected offices, I’ve got some swamp land you might be interested in, Ha, Ha.
    America first, not last.

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    • BubbBubbbBubbaBubbabaa Bubba says:
      2 years ago

      Lug nuts? I love that. Lol

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    • Ken Buck says:
      2 years ago

      You got it. Chavez disarmed the citizens in Venezuela and have those firearms to his private army. Now they want to arm Obama’s private army with our weapons.

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  4. red ant says:
    2 years ago

    Well, there will be so much going on at that time. We will be going crazy with fear and confusion, but some will be ready for the coming storm. I pray that you are ready, because if you are not, then you will be willing to go along with the Deception that will come with great force.
    Change is coming more and more, and it is not going to be some fun party or a great time, it will be a literal fire storm, that none have ever seen before.

    Calm before the storm, that was the time to prepare and get you and your family ready, Mentally and Physically and Spiritually. The time has come to get all in order and get yourself ready and to stay ready so when something happens, then you will be able to overcome it with great ease.
    May GOD and Jesus and the Holy Spirit watch over you and all your loved one’s…

    When it come to your doorstep, will you be prepared to face, what is wanting to destroy you and your family.

    Trust only those that can be trusted. All others proceed with extreme caution. Even if they say they are there to help. Trust is everything when you can’t trust no one…

    stay sharp

    PS: Thanks to all that have given so much information to us all…

    O’ one more thing, VOTE, I know I know voting sucks and it does not work. Well, I say let’s vote for some more time before they come in and take us all away to the death camp.
    If we vote for the better of the two evils, then we might gain some more time to prepare for the end times. but if we just stand there and not vote, then you also have brought forth the end time faster to your family. Vote for more time to get ready. We are not voting for the better of our country you will be voting for possibly more time to get some more prep to get ready, before they are on your doorstep… Think about it…

    John 3:16

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  5. Solobo says:
    2 years ago

    Russia wants the US biologicl weapons labs out of Ukraine. I agree, Russia wants to keep Ukraine a buffer state as promised by the US. I agree. Russia wants to de-nazify the Ukrainian government and military. I agree. Russia does not want NATO allies in Ukraine. I agree. Ukraine is the capital of the Deep state and a money launderer for the corruption in DC. I totally agree. There are always two sides to a war and I am way past believing ANYTHING that comes out of DC. We are needlessly poking the bear and our govt does not care about civilian lives. Our fight to end senseless and needless wars starts in DC.

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    • Randal G says:
      2 years ago

      spot on

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    • JamesJames M says:
      2 years ago

      You are correct. In 1991, the US agreed not to push NATO eastward, we subsequently did. We violated the SALT agreement by putting strategic nukes in Poland (ostensibly to present a deterrent to Iraq and Iran?) Assistant SOS Virginia Nuland is on record stating the US spend billions overthrowing the legitimately elected government of the Ukraine and installing a puppet government. In 2014, we signed the Minsk I accord and the following year Minsk II. We violated both and the Ukranian puppet government proceeded to shell the Donbass civilians killing tens of thousands. Germany & UK have publicly admitted the West had no intention of abiding by these treaties but used them to buy time to arm the Ukraine. The Donbass voted to sucede from the Ukraine which under Article I of the UN charter they are permitted (same right we supported in Yugoslavia and now oppose in the Ukraine.) The Ukraine doubled their attacks on the Donbass. Multinational Budapest Accord signed by all parties and was immediately violated by the West. It goes on and on. Russia was forced to respond to spare civilian lives in the Donbass. For them, it is an existential battle the same way the Cuban missle crisis was for us.

      As for the economy, the description in the article is not how it works. The so-called inflation is actually currency devaluation and the die is cast. By virtually doubling the money supply, we halved the value of the dollar. They will try and spread it out over a number of years, but in the end, your 2019 dollar will be wotth 50 cents. Our bloated fiat currency is past the point of no return and Solobo is right, we have to push the reset button and use real money. But that is not the plan. Devaluation and loss of reserve currency status will make shambles of our economy. The IMF and FATF will ride in on a white horse and save us with a world digital currency. If you don’t believe that read the 2017 IMF report in which they even name the replacement, the Bancor. I will stop here as I do not have time to educate those who won’t educate themselves. As Harlan Ellison said, “Everyone is not entitled to their own opinion, they are entitled to an informed opinion.” It is a grave mistake to be over opininated and under informed.

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      • Amigo Jones says:
        2 years ago

        Americanos living the lies, the horror, the horror! Apocalypse Now!
        The same globalist that have started our 20th century world wars and brush wars are at it again. The destroyed the then Soviet Union’s military in the Middle Yeast regions. The Russians were fighting the Islamic terrorists and the USA proxies part of the war. Then years latter with the BS 911 Attack America gets sucked into the Middle Yeast in Iraq. The Jimmy Carter days of the oil embargo to Biden’s despicable American oil pipeline, drilling Executive Orders to shutdown drilling for oil. A very globalist political move in cahoots with the Marxist climate change movement of the United Nations against America.

        Shutdown the American government spending for only 2 weeks as Dr. Fauci first said, do the lockdown for just 2 weeks. Sure! Only 2 weeks that turned into half a decade of political tyranny. Wake up America!
        End the birth right citizenship as legal in the deception of an illegal taking advantage of the SHEEPLE AMERICAN TAXPAYER.
        This the sticking point with Dreamers of America, who are the political pawns of being the “anchor Babies.”

        Today’s concept of American citizenship is BS! We got for example Chinese tourist birthing hotel hospitals giving American citizenship so they bankrupt the American financial economy. American activist for illegals and religious churches have helped in the destruction of America.
        “Let’s Go Brandon!”

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      • christopher says:
        2 years ago

        NATO , New World Dictator to Destroy , Control and allow antichrist in to control
        worst union ever put in place for world control
        NO Matter What Till Death we will never ever submit to , follow, let control
        this will cause the great war
        10 mil illegals in the invasion of america and all countries of the world who have real leadership
        Taking down the countries which have God, Jesus , Religeon so satan can do his work as per the bible
        Those who hate God ,Love Self, and practice Religeous piety for self God , Self will , Selfish indignation

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    • Alter Prepper says:
      2 years ago

      How would you enjoy some huge, well-armed gangs coming to your home and trying to take over? Trying to take your home away from you, to evict you (or to possibly permit you to remain but only under their rules), to profit from owning the home you created, and to do basically WTFever they want with all of your stuff? You’d try to defend it of course, but they’re much bigger, far more numerous, and much better armed. You’d hope like hell some other people who were also well-armed would see your plight and try to help stop the takeover, right?

      This is huge, evil, lying Russia and you are tiny, unprovoking little Ukraine. You’re fond of believing the Kremlin, whose lies are so blatant and laughable that their country’s newspaper was named “Pravda” (Truth!) so that there was no argument about who was being truthful, unless that argument ended in naysayers’ deaths. Please also note that those who use “truth” or “fact” or “honest”, etc., in their monikers/profiles are always the ones pushing the opposite, JUST like the Pravda rag.

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    • Jacob Westerhoff says:
      2 years ago

      I thoroughly agree. The UN is now run by the WEF. The WEF has held conferences, watchable on YouTube, where they proclaim that they are the New World Order – in full technicolor. The UN, WEF, WHO, NATO, et al are now a huge criminal conglomerate, itching to introduce a world wide communism with a technocratic twist. China is the model. Wokeism, which is Maoism mutated for the US and the West is their agit prop (agitation propaganda), along with pandemic fear, climate fear, famine fear, racism fear, transexual corruption and brainwashing of our kids in the schools, etc, etc, is what they are using. Dr James Lindsay has quite a few lectures on it on YouTube where he clarifies this better than I can. Watch them, and download them if you can, before they disappear.

      Biden was VP when the CIA initiated the coup in Ukraine in 2014, and the Maidan Massacre. The Minsk Agreement was signed to stop the West Ukraine na**s, such as the Azov Battalion, from ethnic cleansing the Russian speaking Ukrainians in the Donbass and neighboring areas. Of course, West Ukraines na**is ignored the Minsk agreement so when it ran out Putin went in to protect his people and the families of Russian citizens. The facts are much deeper, more complex and very different to what is mentioned on the evening news.

      The Ukraine situation goes back to the nazi occupation of what is now West Ukraine during WW2, the peoples acceptance of them due to suffering under Stalinist Russia (millions of Ukrainians starved to death), and the maintenance of the nazi philosophy and hatred of Russia after the war and into present time; even though communism was dissolved in Russia 35 odd years ago.

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  6. Randal G says:
    2 years ago

    Im sorry but the author of this is off base, at least from a war perspective.. We are at war with Russia, we are in a proxy war in the least and actively participating to say what to be more accurate. US and NATO no longer have the capabilities to wage a ground war on this region, debatable they ever did.. The US wouldn’t stand a chance and we would probably see nukes in the end of it. Go listen to Col. Douglas MacGregor about the Ukraine war on YT or Rumble. What needs to be defeated is the Globalist Elite permanent political class, central banks, 3 letter self appointed acronyms organizations, corporate infrastructure that operates as an arm of the DNC, all of these groups that as dead set on eliminating the white population from earth. White Genocide. Americas as well as all westernized countries are in a real pickle when our own government wants us dead as well as our enemies. Ever wonder why NATO and the US encroached on Ukraine with talks of installing nukes on the eastern boarder after in Minsk accords? Because they wanted to provoke Russia. The West wants to take out Putin and turn it into another woke hellhole like all other primarily white based westernized countries are becoming. Ever wonder why only westernized counties are being forced to allow mass illegal immigration? White Genocide, happening in South Africa today as we speak. Russia is primarily white, as well as Ukraine…hmmm. Wonder how that all fits…Bottom line Russia wont be defeated by the US or NATO, but we all could be defeated if we allow our Satanist installed DC swamp to let nukes fly, which we should be very concerned with that.

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    • Chris Goodwin says:
      2 years ago

      you should have written this instead of this moron. Col MacGregor has forgotten more about the conflict than Fergus ever knew. So have I for that matter. “Russia has to be stopped……”. Another clown who has drunk the government koolaid to support the money laundering child trafficking drug running gun running Nazi regime in the Ukraine. I am dumbfounded but how many Americans who are too lazy to research anything. Even worse when you pontificate on a platform like this. If “Ask a Prepper ” ever lets Fergus on this site again, I’m going to unsubscribe.

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    • christopher says:
      2 years ago

      Putin knows once started he cannot retrieve or stop
      so , the dc swamp wants to push so he accomplish thier agenda
      if usa , keeps this up , expect massive retalation , and this is prophesied in the bible as in the end of the 7 years , second 3.5 and the judgement of mankind
      yes only in Gods timing , He still Holds man back from total distruction of everything
      is not this the agenda of NWO , depopulation to save planet for the rich and thier offspring
      well , that wont happen , as the bible shows clear direction of mankind and his attemps to replace god with Self
      NO God , NO Peace , No end to war

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  7. ArsePoetica says:
    2 years ago

    I agree with Solobo, but not sure it matters if it’s Russkies or the U.S. trying to take over the world, either way we come to a bad end. We have met the enemy and he is us.

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  8. Tomtom says:
    2 years ago

    Ukraine is nothing but a huge money laundering scheme. Sending billions to them, (supposedly) and it goes right into our politicians offshore bank accounts. The people are nothing but pawns in this scheme. Someone needs to follow the money.

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  9. JM says:
    2 years ago

    Russia is not expansionist, they simply are reacting to western provocation and perhaps the view that Ukraine is part of Russia, and Putin has aims to bring former Russian Communist territory back to the fold. So laughable that folks, even the author, think that Russia has aims outside of historical Communist Russia. Poland isn’t too alarmed and any invasion of a Nato country would be high folly by Russia. As stated previously by another poster, I am of the opinion that Putin is reacting to Dark State Ukraine.

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    • Benedict Arnold says:
      2 years ago

      Ukraine and the OPEN SOUTHERN BORDER, UNWALLED, UNSECURED BY POLITICAL NONSENSE OF BOTH CORRUPTED PARTIES. MORE SO ON THE DEMONCRATIC SIDE FOR SURE!
      Both parties, corporations and Chamber of Commerce want cheap labor. Not just woke corporations and dumb stupid Americans hire non-English speaking illegal to do their landscaping. And other household chores. Heck unions do hire them too. Don’t believe it do your own searching online, unless the information has been erased or shadow banned!
      These illegal are not looking for political asylum. They are looking for a free ride they could not get from their homey taxpayers. Uncle Sugar will give out OPM – Other People’s Money than their own personal finances. The illegal want to suck from the Marxist TIT of welfare. No other Turd world country would give out free stuff to non-citizens anywhere. But you Sheeple among the conservative preppers would give all assets away. Don’t have mindset that all preppers are conservative, patriotic Americans. Their are turncoats among us in political sheep’s clothing.
      For the illiterate history challenged;
      Benedict Arnold was an American-born military officer who served during the American Revolutionary War. We have those people in American politics everywhere, like AOC. If the looters are hungry, how come they are stealing high dollar items than stealing food instead? LuLu Lemon and Apple products are not food items. So AOC is still an idiot, those people are not hungry as store cameras reveal, it’s not for food.

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      • Alter Prepper says:
        2 years ago

        I don’t know about you, but if I’m starving, I’d bet that stealing heavy, clunky cans of food would only feed me for a few days, while stealing luxury items then selling them for clearly more than I paid for them would provide me with enough money to eat for months and months, with enough to pay my rent and utilities as well.

        Schools used to teach math and logic in my day; too bad yours didn’t.

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  10. Missouri kinda redneck says:
    2 years ago

    The thing that struck me is a comment the Ukrainian leader made in an interview last week that I saw. His comment is that he is extremely worried about next year and the upcoming election. He is afraid Russia will try something massive during the noise of the election. He is afraid in all the issues around the election and the “Instability of it all” Russia or Iran or China will try something to distract us and pull funds away from the war in Ukraine. He might be right. Campaigning for office can be very stressful and with Biden running at this time, it could cause a health issue problem and that would effectively put Harris in charge at a time when we as a country need stability. Next year could end up as a perfect storm of issues all designed to cripple our ability to continue funding Ukraine and enable China to move on Taiwan. With our Economy getting more and more fragile built on this house of debt, it wouldn’t take much to push us over the edge. Lots of dollars coming home when other countries start trading could do it. All in All not a real great picture at this time.

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    • Barn Burner says:
      2 years ago

      VP Harris is a LU LU Lemon, a word salad, herb smoking laughing nut. Months ago on some Black podcast video, she alluded to using the herb. She put pot dealing low life in prison. Do as I say, not as I do.
      You know Harris and Newsom come from the same California political family 6 degrees of separation? Who slept their way to higher offices in politics to be a president wannabe, which one was it or both?
      Keep an eye on California politics, this is a harbinger of future politics as we know it. California the golden State is now the brown State. Speaking of politics Michelle Obama is bringing up the rear of future contenders, yuck!

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  11. Merrill says:
    2 years ago

    The time to panic has come and went. Frog in the pot, the water is starting to come to a boil. We’re all ready cooked. Live well, die well, and help your community. When the Constitution is no longer valid. Our rights are currently taken for granted. When you go to court after being violated, the rule of law isn’t in-forced, your told “it is what it is”! Read your bible! This isn’t a surprise it’s prophecy. Don’t try to prop up a structure built on sand. Make sure of your foundation! Jesus Christ is our provider, God alone gives us shelter in the storm. Psalms 91, the soldiers psalm

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    • Merrill says:
      2 years ago

      Ps if you don’t believe, no worries, its all going to just fine!

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    • Aaron says:
      2 years ago

      Biggest sigh a lot of people don’t like, is cherry picking Bible verses. Same thing with Bible thumping preachers. Most western books are read left to right and by numbered chapters in order. If we read a normal western book in the middle chapter first, then the beginning first or end chapter. We get a different meaning of the authored book’s original meaning intended to the reader.

      The Bible is no listed by alphabetical order of chapters. Then many language translation versions and an elitist groups decide which version of certain books are added to or deleted. Which Bible version id the true original authentic text?
      The readers and preachers go forwards, backwards, taking cherry picking the stories into their own view of what the Bible is supposed to say.
      Some people read the Bible from cover to cover and get a different meaning of the Bible stories.
      So why people don’t like being talked down to. It has been said a simple believe in GOD and Jesus Christ is better than no belief in GOD. Then jumping around the chapter and verses to cherry pick something that fits for their arguments in life.
      Public schools use to recite the Pledge of Allegiance daily, before the Marxist teacher’s union took over our education system of today. Randi Weingarten is an American labor leader, attorney, and educator. Another liberal lawyer tied into the unions and Dr. Fauci’s Covid school shutdowns and lockdowns of America.
      Yes mask up and take your Covid poison vaccines again American Sheeple.

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      • Merrill says:
        2 years ago

        Last book Revelation. No cherry picking there. Prophecy of the last days. It’s pretty plane. For a book transcribed 2000 years ago the things described in stark detail could not be predicted. Now the “revelation” is accurately occurring as transcribed…was not possible before is now very probable. Just saying. There’s sand a plenty to bury your head in!

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  12. Larry Grenie says:
    2 years ago

    Digital Money, The American Will NEVER stand with this,
    Control of our money and how we spend it, Its the one thing they had better never push this on this country, Will kick all of them right out of the white house, and the people of this country will take up arms Will protect our freedoms, We put them in Office and we can take them out. What are they doing good for the American people,
    Always looking for ways to control us, THERE NOT GOD ,
    ITS what we want , Not what there going to do to us, They work for the American people to better the US , Not try to destroy our freedoms. , We have the right to put a stop to this, This is our country, Are the Rich scared of the common people, They will create a war in this country they will be sad and sorry for, . There’s a lot more of us then them . They had better wake up and smell the coffee because there brewing there own HELL if they try it on the American People . The America people will become there worst FEARS, There will be no more common ground for them to stand on, They better get on there privet jets And get the hell out of our country. If this is what they want to do to us , Then send them all to countries that have that rule and have them live under it, I bet they will change there tune REAL FAST, , This is the UNITED STATES OF AMEREICA, ,HOME OF THE FREE AND THE BRAVE WE did not go to war to have our lives controlled , AND BE DAMED IF WE WILL.

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  13. donald says:
    2 years ago

    All right look: Russia is done for as a country. These are its death throes. The danger is that it could very well decide to take us with it. China is in much the same boat. Both are suffering from severe depopulation of the core ethnicity – for different reasons, but the result is the same. I guess the underlying point is that the danger is real, even if somewhat short-term. Neither country will exist is their current form by the end of the century = perhaps and probably sooner. But either or both can do a lot of damage in the meantime, should they choose to do so.

    Russia is basically a large, flat plain with very few natural boundaries, like mountain ranges, oceans, swamps, etc. Over the 500 hundred years, it has been invaded almost 100 times. While not necessarily successful, these kinds of things leave an indelible mark on the country’s psyche. The old Soviet Union solved this problem by expending its borders to the the points it could defend, and/or by ensuring other countries were in between them and possible aggressors. Since its breakup, Russia has been trying to repeat that feat – unsuccessfully to this point. They are also plagued by the massive utilization (and death) of ethnic Russian young men in the army especially over the last 100 years – to the point that it is now impossible for that population to recover. The ethnic “minorities” in what was once the USSR are now the majority of the population, and most of those groups are splintered by cultural and religious differences. They will never reform into a single country, especially once the center (Moscow) decays away. This war with Ukraine, plus the others they lined up behind this one, remain their only hope for salvation – and that’s a long shot at best.

    China created its own termination event in the “one child” policy of a generation ago. It was a remarkably effective program – it killed them as a country. Since then, Chinese cities and districts have been dramatically over-reporting their populations (primarily school children) in an attempt to secure a bigger piece of population-based government funding. Now the over-reporting has come home. They plain and simple no longer have enough population to perform all the manual labor their economy demands – and they are simply not skilled enough to operate the extremely high-tech equipment that their neighbors have and employ. couple that with the fact that no other country in the world is as dependent as China on the import of raw materials and foodstuff. They need a peaceful and secure supply chain to even hope to survive – and yet they are likely to foment the very thing that will finish them off – a war with Taiwan. Just remember that the CCP’s highest priority is the survival of the CCP – not necessarily the survival of China or its peoples.

    But like I said, it doesn’t really matter WHY these things are happening – what matters is what the increasingly desperate people clinging to power may do about it. The greatest danger is simply that they may believe that life without they themselves isn’t worth living – for everyone.

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  14. Grizzled Warrior says:
    2 years ago

    “For the first time since 2001 the US doesn’t have large troop deployments in a war zone – but that doesn’t mean peace has broken out.” That is debatable. We have combat troops in Syria.

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  15. christopher says:
    2 years ago

    Sequence :
    Deeper Depression
    Higher price of fuels, living expenses, cost to do business
    More Stealing, More murder , More crime of all kinds
    this is right in the elites agenda
    Using the 5 g networks to test the death of shot victums
    making sure there is less and cost more
    so as to excellerate the war on humanity ( 1/3 ) world death toll , then 1/4 death toll
    yes after the G-2 summit they the evil rich found thier only 14 % in line with goals of agenda 2030
    Total control , 15min citys , less people to control
    this is agenda look it up WEF , Who, Cfr, kazarian moffia at work , Klaus at work deceiving the rich and holding the corps at will for money control thru banking system .
    Money the love of is real problem here
    love of sin, hatred of God, Love of lust , Child trafficking’s , essentially working the way to slavery
    which the bible says will be in the end times
    starvation , much crime, and lots of pestilence s , Desease run rampant

    this is what to expect

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  16. Jted1174 says:
    2 years ago

    To assume that the US government has the moral high ground with regard to Ukraine and “stopping Russia aggression” is naive at the least! Or government, did EVERYTHING to cause the conflict in Ukraine, and then blames Russia for doing EXACTLY what we would do if they were to do in Mexico, what we did in Ukraine.
    Remember, history is written by the victors!! We pushed Japan into drastic measures in 1941. WWll is not so cut and dried as many think. Here we are again, making the same mistakes, and demanding different results.

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  17. Istvan says:
    2 years ago

    The fact is: Biden Administration holds Ukraine on ” life support “with your taxpayer money .
    Cutting that endless flow of money will end the war in about 48 hours!!

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  18. River rat says:
    1 year ago

    I agree the world seems to be on fire around the edges of America. With many starter fires in our country on any given day. I recently retired and am thinking about developing an off grid community in the Ozarks. I own acreage joining national Forest with year around live water. Anyone interested?

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