re: Is It Fair To Say That Woke Gen. Mark Milley Would Have No Problem Killing 75M Americans?

The big difference is the average Viet Cong guerrilla could sleep fine on a dirty concrete floor in a 100 degree room, no problem. A Taliban fighter is used to living with no conveniences in a shithole. He’s done it all his life.

On the way home just now, I passed a Cookie Crumbl store where people were in their cars, idling with the ac on blast, burning $3.25 a gallon gas, in a line 15 cars deep out onto the street, waiting for a service worker to bring them each a $4 cookie they had ordered on their phone.

We’re fat, lazy, comfortable, weak. Sure, some grizzled backwoods baws will take to the hills to wage war and others will wage quiet disruption. But the people in this country, by and large, ain’t about that life no more.

I have often said that I do think we are entering a long term period of strife, division, violence, and disruption similar to the Troubles in the UK and Ireland. I do think, in many years ahead, the country will disintegrate and break up upon a financial catastrophe of which we are currently on a direct path.

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We’re fat, lazy, comfortable, weak. Sure, some grizzled backwoods baws will take to the hills to wage war and others will wage quiet disruption. But the people in this country, by and large, ain’t about that life no more.

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That is certainly the way it seems.

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I have often said that I do think we are entering a long term period of strife, division, violence, and disruption similar to the Troubles in the UK and Ireland. I do think, in many years ahead, the country will disintegrate and break up upon a financial catastrophe of which we are currently on a direct path.

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We might be headed towards a time like The Troubles, which I think is more likely than outright civil conflict, but we are also entering into uncharted territory in terms of demographics of developed countries versus undeveloped countries. How countries adjust to government spending or a lack thereof will play a massive role in what political arrangements will look like in the future. Any degree of uncertainty in political hotspots around the world seems to buttress demand for US dollars, which allows the Fed to be more expansive in their approach to liquidity, in my view. That might prevent outright financial collapse, but doesn't address the shifting demographics inside the US, which also represents a massive shift.