Weakness Begets War
How we’ve repeated the mistakes of the 1930s, added some more of our own, and thereby have ensured an even worse outcome
Few people in the West seem to understand how anomalous the last eighty years have been. Since the end of World War II the West has enjoyed a period of peace and economic growth unparalleled in all of human history. Not since the Roman Empire has mainland Europe enjoyed such a long stretch of peace and integration, and never before has economic growth been a predominant factor in human society.
And now it’s all coming to an end, even as ever-more-bloated and ever-more-infantile Westerners remain in complacent slumber, cramming McSlop down our throats and gawping at ever-more-mindless entertainments on our flickering shiny screens, pausing only periodically to vote for cynical incompetent morons.
In 2027 the following events will occur:
US Republican mismanagement of the US economy will trigger a bond market reaction leading to a crisis in US Treasury issuance and suddenly everyone in the financial sector will realize that the US national debt is totally unsustainable. The collapse of the dollar’s seigniorage will have devastating effects on the US economy and trigger a huge loss of jobs, further undermining the USA’s already totally…
