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THE YEAR IS 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown.

According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of “Escape from New York” and “Robocop” — with dashes of the “Warriors” and “Divergent” thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.

At least that’s the scenario outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

1 posted on 07/02/2023 4:04:10 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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All by design.

The billionaire globalist depopulationist psychopaths want us dead.

We should make them dead first.


2 posted on 07/02/2023 4:05:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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We can avoid that by having 15 minute cities.


3 posted on 07/02/2023 4:05:41 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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video link
https://player.vimeo.com/video/187093104


4 posted on 07/02/2023 4:06:46 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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The importation of the problem into the USA is going very well.


5 posted on 07/02/2023 4:07:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Cities wouldn't be a problem if they were run like cities instead of Leftist hothouses.

Good laws and tight policing would clean up a lot of problems and most citizens would be pleased with the result.

That said, the military probably is thinking that cities will be strongholds for white supremacist militias instead of drug-dealing ghetto thugs and pride parades.

6 posted on 07/02/2023 4:20:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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Our previously secure border protected US but it was deemed unfair by our political BETTERS.


7 posted on 07/02/2023 4:20:39 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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This video is old (ca. 2015).

It is available on yoo toob.

The Intercept is just *now* getting a copy? and they had to use FOIA?


10 posted on 07/02/2023 4:30:10 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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Maybe they should have thought of this before allowing MILLIONS of unknown, unvetted, unemployed, military aged males from 3rd world narco, terrorist or enemy states to enter the country. People who have no allegiance to the U.S., no appreciation for our history, culture, or norms, and who believe that large areas of the U.S. were stolen from their home country. People who the Left will easily be able to convince are victims of discrimination, racism, etc. There is no better recipe for creating division, violence and chaos.


13 posted on 07/02/2023 4:46:57 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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Shades of “Blade Runner”.


17 posted on 07/02/2023 5:01:03 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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Criminals will become politicians and use their office to get money from Billionaires who trying to manipulate money markets by causing unrest.


23 posted on 07/02/2023 5:20:43 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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OPEN BORDERS made this a reality.


24 posted on 07/02/2023 5:24:01 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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27 posted on 07/02/2023 5:38:38 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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We are already in trouble. Look at CHicago and Baltimore.


28 posted on 07/02/2023 5:41:25 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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You can cut off city services and kill any modern city.
No electricity, no water...for days...few people
left after they get through killing each other for survival.

The lucky live where they could still flee.

Sorry, I'm not buying the premise.

29 posted on 07/02/2023 5:42:46 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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Urban economic deserts of nothing but pure violence built by new ‘inhabitants’ who will increasingly vote in the pandering politicians that will sustain it.

Not places anyone who believes in the rule of law to be.


31 posted on 07/02/2023 5:48:20 AM PDT by Gaffer
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Stage one: Let the cities go the hell.

Stage two: Use that as an excuse to call the army on civilians.


32 posted on 07/02/2023 5:58:46 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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It’s telling that these supposed “Pentagon experts” use so many film titles to describe what they see.

Perhaps they should stop watching old movies on the clock.


33 posted on 07/02/2023 6:21:50 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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LOL. Adversaries are not a threat to big cities. Democrats, gang bangers, Cartels, and encouraging homelessness are the biggest threats to our big cities, by far.


35 posted on 07/02/2023 6:28:07 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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Well, the Pentagon is not helping by trying to create GM slimes, goblins, orcs, dragonnewts and lizardmen, giant feral wolves and tentacle monsters.


39 posted on 07/02/2023 7:07:41 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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I think Atlanta is about there. 😏


41 posted on 07/02/2023 7:11:13 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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