Posted on 08/16/2021 12:49:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz
What does the Afghanistan Crisis mean to YOUR LIFE?
The events of the last 72 hours have been breathtaking in their speed and their seriousness. The Taliban has seized power in Afghanistan, after America spent trillions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to install and keep a secular government in that landlocked, opium-producing country. In the rapid advance of the Taliban, ten thousand Americans and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilian allies have been trapped in the country, with no chance of escape.
Women will be raped; men will be beheaded or tortured....unless we pay the Taliban billions in ransom. The President and his spokesperson, Jennifer Psaki, are nowhere to be found. Biden, as addled as he is with cognitive decline, released a pathetic picture of himself at Camp David, alone and looking dejected (while, by the way, blowing the cover of several CIA Department Heads on the panel of TV sets Biden was looking at), while Psaki has decided to take a week-long vacation starting on August 15th. Calls are going unanswered. Nobody is home at the White House. We have no leadership whatsoever.
What does this mean for YOU?
In the last 72 hours, the standing of America as a force to be feared has evaporated. Every tin-horn dictator, every evil actor, now knows that America is a paper tiger and is rudderless. Our leadership is incompetent and unresponsive to any real crisis. We are much more preoccupied that transexuals and perverts be revered and that those on the political right (you know, the EFFECTIVE people) are called 'domestic terrorists'.
I expect China to move on Taiwan. I expect Islamic terrorists to swarm across our unsecured southern border. I expect great international upheaval, similar to what occurred in the early days before World War II. We may, indeed, have another World War as the powers jockey to take the place of America and the global stabilization she provided.
As international upheaval inevitably happens, you can expect instability in the prices of commodities. Food, energy, products ... all these things will fluctuate wildly in price. An overheated stock market will tumble, costing people billions and trillions of dollars in losses. As terrorist events occur with more frequency and more deadliness, our government will clamp down more and more on personal liberties, perhaps outright ignoring the Constitutional freedoms we have been guaranteed. They have been encroaching on those liberties anyways, with terrorist events occurring more often, they will consider that justification for the outright trampling of our rights.
What does this mean for YOU?
It means rampant inflation and bare store shelves. It means unavailability of products, energy, food. It means domestic police-state tactics to deal with the increase in REAL terrorism, as opposed to the imagined terrorism of 1/6/2021. It means companies will collapse and jobs will evaporate. It means wealth you have laid up will be drained of value quickly.
It means uncertainty, unavailability, and unrest.
What can you do about all of this?
Draw closer to the Lord, and appreciate all you have right now. Prepping is okay, but what will it do but extend your survival for a few more months? The answer is to continue to go on, to go to work as if all is well, to be prudent with your finances to the best of your ability, to be prepared to learn new skills and embark on new careers, to be prepared to remake our country in a sane fashion after the 'woke' are demonstrated to have been utter fools.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings, a poem by Rudyard Kipling, warns us of the way that reality always asserts itself in the face of the insane imaginings of those who deny reality. I would say that America has reached a place of such a dearth of reality (57 genders? REALLY?) that when reality hits, it will be powerful and very painful.
Well, no time like the present to make one’s peace with their Maker.
True. And it’s pleasant to watch. This is our way of SPIRITUALLY “hitting it”.
Lack of choice. Long story.
I remember you saying something like that a few years back and I was thinking “this Laz guy seems to be growing spiritually”. Now I can see more definition to your spiritual muscles.
Keep up the good work.
Ping.
To me it breaks my heart, after being deployed there for over a year and befriending many Afghans. Every single one hated the Taliban. I fear for their lives.
Thanks for your service.
I don’t know what the answer is for Afghan.
It’s been a dilemma for centuries.
Hi Laz! Hope you’re doing well.
Back when Nixon put on some price controls, our local store had lots of bare shelves. Reminded me of pictures we had seen of Russian stores.
It also taught a valuable lesson - put price controls on everything you do not want to be available-shortages are easy peasy this way, and of course, you get to claim that you are standing up for the people.
All we have to do is mine our own here in N.America. Elk Creek Development, Search Minerals, Texas Round Top. There are more.
Thanks for posting these...
AMEN!!
It further clarifies, and amplifies, what a bumbling, incompetent, ignorant fool we have in the 'Peoples House', at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. SAD!
You’re pure platinum!
Awww. Thanks!
OMG I haven’t seen you around here in forever!! Glad you are still kickin’!
My son is a loadmaster on C17’s. He’s headed to the mideast very soon.
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris might be done so in 2024 they might replace them with someone like Gavin Newsom (assuming he survives the recall).
I’m still here, lurking more than not. Way too many bozos to suit my taste but if the forum tolerates them, who am I to be lone voice to take’m to the woodshed.
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