I don’t pretend to understand this. How can we prepare? Buy Gold, silver? Stockpile cash?
What you can be stockpiling is durable goods that you will use in the future—because you do not want to be paying inflated prices for them down the line.
That approach already saved me a lot of money during the current inflation.
Also, learn to garden, brew deer and wine (hold hard liquor for barter), keep weapons for defense and hunting, form a trusted community just for starters.
Time is getting short.
I can’t wrap my head around all the possibilities here, either.
But, an image from one of my favorite children’s books come floating from the back of my memory.
It was a very big Gulliver, lying on the ground surrounded by many tiny Lilliputians carefully pinning him to the ground at many points around his massive body with pegs and rope.
I can see the USA as Gulliver at this point in our history, unable to move out of the mess we ourselves have allowed to happen. And the Lilliputians being those small minded individuals within our nation, and the many forces outside of our nation who are fed up with our corruption and interference in their affairs.