I frequently speak of an impending collapse here. I am quite certain it is almost inherent to the system when you view civilization through the biological lens of r/K. I believe all of the economic data points to it being in the near future, maybe even the next decade. But little evidence is as convincing as the actions of the government, where smart people who know more than I could gather about what is coming are trying to prepare with “Operation Jade Helm 15”.
I find the fact they are practicing undercover and infiltration tactics interesting. Those in the know will recognize that if there is a civil war, it will not involve uniformed police, uniformed military units, or recognizable forces of any kind. Government tactical forces will don civvies, and the tip of the spear, gathering the intel, will be the fat Lena Dunham types, minivan-driving young moms with little kids, skinny jean wearing tween-wannabes, and decrepit geriatrics who populate the little studied (too little studied, IMHO) Homeland Security Surveillance Division (uniting FBI, DEA, ICE, various State PD surveillance units, and the private surveillance investigators hired through local PI firms that many such agencies keep on the roster). Between their unimposing/pathetic/disgusting/helpless/etc. appearances, their often having lucrative side jobs that appear as if main jobs, and their buying or renting the actual houses they live in at the direction of their leadership (to facilitate whatever ops need undetected eyes next door), they are the real threat if a coming collapse goes hot. That this appears to be visualizing Special Operations tactical forces operating openly in that type of scenario, rather than using cover of night and fast insertion is interesting.
I doubt this type of operation will actually happen when the collapse goes down, though I admit military collapse planning is not actually my wheelhouse. I just feel as if once the bank holiday happens and the value of the electronic dollar begins to collapse, the vibrants will find that their EBT cards aren’t worth anything at the stores. At that point, to avoid starving they will begin to hijack food delivery trucks in the cities, then food deliveries to cities will stop, the cities will rapidly become real-life zombie apocalypses filled with unimaginably desperate and starving people, and the military will have it’s hands full trying to keep the rabbits from enduring a whole-scale slaughter at the hands of the most criminal around. Once that happens, people stop showing up to work, infrastructure will begin to suffer, replacement parts will become harder to come by, and then the real fun begins. Let healthcare diminish, disease begin to rise, and medicines become rare and expensive as money becomes worthless, and it could get real harsh real fast.
The idea that as that is occurring, the military will spread out into freedom-loving areas which are relatively strife-free by their self-sufficient natures, seems silly. However I could see a rabbit now, in times of peace, fearing the freedom-loving among us more than the savagery in the cities and deciding to focus planning on that threat, more than any other.
We will see.
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JADE HELM is an exercise that our special ops troops use in order to train for Unconventional Warfare in the enemy’s country, not in ours. It’s a bigger, more complex version of ROBIN SAGE.
Think of JADE HELM as sort of like a ground pounder’s RED FLAG. It’s intended to keep our Green Berets & MARSOC troops sharp and ready to deploy behind enemy lines (in whatever Third World police state shit hole we hit next).
Thanks for the links. I don’t doubt Jade Helm is legit, and necessary. But I also suspect the placement, where rabbits most likely fear losing control if the economy goes down, isn’t coincidental. You never see these things in the suburbs outside Philadelphia, Boston, or Chicago, even though I think our SF would have more trouble blending with the metrosexual city crowd, and thus benefit more from the practice. Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Louisiana, are all places where a rabbit would think the problems would arise in a collapse situation (even though I think they have that all wrong). It is not impossible that like the paper war-gaming against a Tea-Party-Terrorist Uprising against the government, this is reflective of the thinking of a few rabbits who are worming their way into the hierarchy.
without commenting on JADE HELM.
you are correct a collapse will not have clear lines between combatants.
but what will the collapse actually look like. Imagine refined fuel unavailable for one or 2 weeks. Diesel off the market. ETB cards won’t mean anything not because the system is down, but because there will be no trucks replenishing the stores. Three days and stores completely empty (if they make three days since once people see the gravity of it the mob is unleashed).
we can see what will happen if the collapse is orchestrated. just look at Cuba or Venezuela. If the slide is slow enough they can get away with it. Already the Federal gov. has begun to buy off the police. (the Bundy ranch stand-off was a dry run about their own abilities and citizen response). That is the crucial step to maintaining control. AND THAT IS WHY the collapse will not happen for a period of time. They aren’t ready. In the end they may not be able to control it but to date they seem to have managed to maintain the facade. The stock markets and media control they exert have prevented a reckoning and I think they will continue for a while before they show their hand.
They (who ever they are) are not the r’s (they manipulate the r’s and feed the r’s) but I am not about to call them K’s either.
I’m not sure who they are either, but I think viewing the world in light of Darwinism alone would suggest their existence. Vault-Co postulates they are a third type of hominid, which he calls melonheads, that he believes predates Homo sapiens. I don’t know the archeological evidence, but I find the idea interesting, because humans do have a tendency toward associative mating, which naturally leads “leaders” to tend toward keeping “leader bloodlines,” royals marrying royals and the rich looking down on the plebes, and whatnot.
Since leadership in large populations seems to favor a certain degree of sociopathy, ruthlessness, and natural tendencies toward deception/Machiavellianism, I wonder sometimes if there is a “melonhead” phenotype that has arisen through associative mating, which is fundamentally different from normal humans psychologically – prone to seek leadership and well suited to acquire it due to its moral-less psychology.
I agree fuel will get disrupted, and I think as a result, the worst aspect of the collapse for non-city-dwellers will be the cold. Winter up north, without heating oil or Natural Gas will be brutal. I have no idea how people will survive, especially if it gets colder, as looks likely.
My guess on the Bundy Ranch, with a very, very little bit of inside information, would be that every Militia guy there now has a detailed surveillance file gathered by the massive surveillance operation we assembled after 9/11, probably with very detailed food acquisition patterns. Where do they buy their milk? What route do they take to get there? What time, what day, and how often? How do they select the container? Front of the rack, latest date, etc. Only for everything they buy, and definitely for their militia units as a whole if they do anything as stupid as stopping to get pizza at a predictable shop after a range session.
If it was coming to civil war, before the fight was ever on I suspect one agent would radio ahead when a food run was happening, and at the store, just as the target arrived, something predictable and adulterated would get thrown on the rack. If it was a common purchase, a package of Havarti Cheese with the latest date would be put at the front of the rack, laced maybe with some oral vaccine to trigger Lupus, or myocarditis, or something else slow-acting but fully debilitating. The guy would never know, but all those guys would just get sick, and be out of the game, kind of like what happened to Breitbart.
It will never come to it, because I think the sudden outbreak of city chaos will have everyone just hunker down, and all police forces will go there to try and save what rabbits can be saved. But I doubt civil war, if it did happen, would be even vaguely recognizable to a normal K-strategist. The sociopaths at the top won’t fool around, and they have created the most amazing police state I think anyone has ever seen. They won’t let go of it easily. The consequences of everyone learning the full extent of what has been built would just be too high.