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Posted on 10/25/2011 5:44:35 AM PDT by Travis McGee
“Anyone who supports usurpation of the Rule of Law will become fair game when lawlessness officially becomes precedent defended by an equally lawless and presumptuous self-styled monopoly of force.”
Immediate word associations from this:
Moscow, Old Bolsheviks, Show Trials, Night of the Long Knives, Sturm Abteilung . . . and so on.
I agree, and I think the best one can realistically hope for is to be living in a region that is not as badly shattered as many will be, particularly the urban welfare zones.
Suicide of a Superpower is on my next-to-read list. I’ve enjoyed reading and listening to PJB over the years.
I suspect that only one in four or so even here - with a very well informed base - really understand what you are talking about: Sea Peoples; Vandals; Chichimecas; the An Lushan Rebellion; the Thirty Years War. Catastrophic technological and population decline.
I quite agree.
Own it, read it. He has a lot of wisdom.
I suspect that only one in four or so even here - with a very well informed base - really understand what you are talking about: Sea Peoples; Vandals; Chichimecas; the An Lushan Rebellion; the Thirty Years War. Catastrophic technological and population decline.
I quite agree.
Yes, and my God help us.
And when the SHTF in Argieland, invade the Falklands.
Have you seen this? I just saw it today, reading the third page of the thread. Selco from Bosnia telling of his expereinces during a year long seige of some city in Bosnia near the Croat border.
http://www.survivalistboards.com/showthread.php?t=189395
"....and the money kept rolling in...."
My friends in AR tell me that they siezed everyone’s private retirement accounts to do some sort of national retiremanet plans. Ms. Kirchner has amassed a huge fortune over recent years, mainly through the national treasury. Restristions on writing checks (for business transactions) make it difficult to do day to day business. It’s gotten pretty dismal down there. Sad.
Where’s Pinochet when you need him?
Yep, there IS that. :>)
Thanks for the ping. Very good read.
UP...!!!
Good read. Argentina is a beautiful country with so much potential. It could be like a Italian/Spanish version of the US in South America, but ever since the Perons, it hasn’t been able to get it right as it moves from one regime to another. I was last there a few years ago and in the nicer areas of Buenos Aires and Mendoza, life felt the same, but you could see the poverty outside the cities. And the inflation in prices was ridiculous compared to my previous visit after the collapse there in 2001/2002. I could see then that the average Argentine couldn’t afford much anymore. And Argentina USED to have a huge middle class. But political greed has ruined that.
Oh yeah, it looks like a great blog/forum. I read lots of pages in this thread. Good stuff for urban survival during crazy civil war.
Argentina’s economic collapse plus something like the Bosnian civil war is one vision I see of America’s future.
Good point. Many Americans don’t realize it, but except in the far flung provinces like Salta, Argentina has no diversity. It’s population looks like a Southern European country that just picked up and moved halfway around the world. It looks nothing like Mexico, Brazil, etc. That cultural cohesiveness has helped it survive in the past. Additionally, the reliability of the welfare state just doesn’t exist like in the US so people have to turn to each other and to themselves to survive when things get tough.
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