Friends & Neighbours

We are entering a great disintegration. Maybe the wise thing to do is to sell assets in Europe now before the crash gets out of hand. The real trouble is that people dont generally want to move very far from where they have traditionally lived, so selling real estate is probably the last option. That means that by the time that option is being considered it will already be too late.

For some considerable time now I have suggested people should probably sell up and Go East. Malaysia seems one of the better options. Luckily one of the official languages there is English.

My second option would be what I have done myself. I moved to southern Portugal. Real estate prices are still high in this part of the world, and I still think Portugal will escape the worst of the collapsing continent. But what you might call the economic heartbeat of the western part of the continent is suffering severe palpitations.

If you live in southern Europe you may well be better off than the north simply because there has traditionally been less industrialisation in the south, so there is less to collapse.

However, you do need to think seriously about where your money comes from. Preferably not from Europe.

The eastern part of the continent, by which I mean Russia, is doing very well indeed. Just how well you may have seen if you watched Tucker Carlson wandering around the markets there and buying things. The last time I looked his ratings showed a quarter of the world’s population watched his Russian trip, so now almost everybody knows the true state of things over there.

I’m sure most Europeans know what’s what. The four big economies, Britain, Germany, France and Italy are all on the ropes.

I constantly hear people talking about Britain rejoining the EU which clearly means that a heck of a lot of people dont see what is staring them in the face, namely that the EU is at death’s door.

Every country within the union is suffering from inflation, high unemployment, political incompetence, worsening food shortages, worsening energy shortages, failing businesses, and bankrupt exchequers. On top of this the various governments are burdened with unsustainable social commitments.

The only question is, how much longer can such a situation be sustainable? The real answer is that it cant. I fully believe there will be serious repercussions within the next year or so.

My own concerns are no longer directed to what is likely to happen over the course of the next couple of years. I am far more interested in what is to come after the debacle.

There are so many questions.

Where will the food come from if the Brussels idiots keep to their insane edicts? And what do people do when there is no food? Usually they riot and steal.

Where will the energy come from? Russia wont switch on the spigots after the way we have behaved towards them. The US has turned off their spigots as well.

So what happens when the power goes off? The tractors wont start, so the fields dont get ploughed and sown. The trains stop. Fridges fail. And the people start to riot and steal, until there is nothing left to steal.

And then we go back to the middle ages, start breeding horses like mad, and plant potatoes in the window boxes.

And life goes back to being nasty, brutish and short.

The Brussels mafia will try to create an army. That will give them even more power. If or when then happens I shall definitely leave. At the moment Brussels has no real power. They can be side-lined. It’s easy. Dont fund them. But create an army and fund that, and you will have given your tormentors all the power they need. That is what is coming.

If you think Europe needs an army to defend itself, think again. It cant be used against an aggressor. But who in their right mind would want to invade a collapsing continent that is clearly headed for the exit?

Look at the UK. It cant feed its population. It imports 80% of its food-stuffs. How easy would it be to blockade the country? It’s almost blockaded now. During a blockade you need friends not enemies, and those friends need to have what you want, and be prepared to sell it to you. That also means you need to have the money to pay for it.

The UK needs it, and increasingly doesn’t have the money to pay for it.

The danger level for a country living on credit is generally regarded as 90% of GDP. The UK position has topped 100%. That means it can no longer productively borrow to fund future payments because the cost of the funding starts to cost more than the value of the money borrowed.

England, in fact the whole of Western Europe, rapidly needs a monetary overhaul, and friends bearing gifts. Increasingly it appears to have neither.

As for an army to defend Europe, at the moment the nations cant even defend their borders from unarmed people in rowing boats! In short, in terms of protection, Europe is a laughing stock.

What would even a proper army achieve? The US is supposedly the biggest power on the planet and it has lost every war it’s waged during my lifetime.

The character of war has changed drastically since then.

One neatly placed electro-magnetic pulse would bring a country to its knees in minutes. The electric supply would fail. Engines would no longer function. The knock-on effect would mean no money would be available because there would be no electricity to power the banking system. That means there would be no way to cook dinner. It would take less than a week for there to be mass starvation because food would no longer be able to be kept before rotting as every freezer would fail. Bang would go the entire communications network.

The good news is that you would only have two things left to worry about. How many tins of food you have left, and how are you going to warm the contents.

The water filtration systems and pumps would stop working, and 95% of the mechanical structure of a country would no longer operate.

Of course the radiation would cause massive loss of life as well, but these days radiation devices are much more selective than they used to be.

Modern warfare survives simply because governments so far refuse to use modern technology in war.

Warships, bombers, tanks; they are all obsolete. One EMP would bring all of them to a standstill.

Even without that, hypersonic missiles can easily destroy a battleship. That is the most out-dated war machine still being used.

It is time people started to wake up to a modern reality and realise that it really is time to start being friends with one’s neighbours, or there wont be any you, or any neighbours.