As it turns out, 2019 was the last year when the governments of the West could even pretend that the world in which they had had us living – a world of debt and funny money, outsourced production and manufactured dependence on imported energy – was in any way sustainable. What we are witnessing now is only chickens coming home to roost. What we are experiencing is the consequence of those governments, and their bankers, burning down the old house and moving themselves into the only addresses worth living in in the new one to come.
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The enemy have us surrounded. Good! Now we know where to find the bastards! -various