I never thought I’d be looking at the end, but here it is.....
A lot of people are looking at what is going on as "business as usual", as they ignore the gathering storm.
This may or may not be the "end", but nonetheless, one can see it clearly now from this point in history and it is a lot closer today than it was at this time last week.
There was a book I read and chuckled about many years ago titled Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984 (by Andrei Amalrik). It seemed a pretty impossible theory when I read it back in the 1970s. The USSR was riding high in those years and if anything, we were the ones who might not survive until 1984. Nobody is laughing now at Amalrik's thesis, and they weren't any more in 1991, either.
There is a sobering history lesson therein. We would be well advised to heed those rumbles of thunder on the horizon.