The only thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.
The US Joins WW3
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Consider this, Russia is estimated to have 3,500 tanks currently and they are actively manufacturing them at a high rate. The use of tanks has changed from WW2. Today a modern tank is similar to an aircraft carrier in the sea, it will carry unmanned robots and drones. Think of each tank as having its own aerial reconnaissance, and robots in front of it as it advances. So those 3,500 tanks are more like 10,000 when you factor in the drones and smaller robotic tanks. Germany during its blitzkrieg had less than 3,000 tanks. Also think of these robot dogs they have built with machine guns on them. They are like the infantry that follows the path the tanks cut. A modern blitzkrieg by Germany could go from Ukraine to Paris in 30 days. Far too quick for the US to be able to move heavy armament to help defend. Much of NATOs defenses are designed to fight a different war with big tanks, and missiles. The problem is that the anti tank weapons they have are more expensive than the unmanned robots and drones. The other problem NATO has is their soldiers are not battle tested. The Russians have far more experience at this point. Think of the war in Ukraine as a training for the Russian military preparing them to take Europe.
We look at how many of their men are killed and tanks destroyed. The problem is those tanks were all training vehicles, not the modern style of "mothership" tank. Also with the use of drones and robots the men lost will be replaced with unmanned weapons. AI is very effective tactically, but it requires a lot of experience to learn how to coordinate AI's strengths with the strength of seasoned battlefield commanders, Russia has been getting that experience while NATO hasn't.
We look at how many of their men are killed and tanks destroyed. The problem is those tanks were all training vehicles, not the modern style of "mothership" tank. Also with the use of drones and robots the men lost will be replaced with unmanned weapons. AI is very effective tactically, but it requires a lot of experience to learn how to coordinate AI's strengths with the strength of seasoned battlefield commanders, Russia has been getting that experience while NATO hasn't.
your quote that empires fall into the same ditch over and over again is what is said in Ecclesiastes, that which has been is that which shall be.
My response (two posts, not one) show that what has been at the time of the Lord's first coming is being repeated in His second coming. Not only so, but His second coming is His ultimate judgment on human empires, they are all lumped into one and we see very detailed prophecies of this judgement having been given over the last 84 years.
I watched this video describing two people, next door neighbors, and their response to a nuclear missile coming to their city. The first guy had a bug out bag and within two minutes of the alert being sent by Text he was getting into his car and heading for the freeway. That was 13 minutes before the missile hit. The problem was that everyone was scrambling for the freeway and so he was stuck in a traffic jam. According to this video you want to be at least 15 miles from the epicenter and 20 miles would probably put you outside of the immediate blast zone, though you could still suffer from fall out.
So then it hit me, look at Lot, he was given more than a fifteen minute warning. If this guy had "bugged out" just 15 minutes before the alert hit everyone's phones he probably would have been traveling at 65 mph for 15 minutes before others started flooding the highway. If he had bugged out 1 hour before the alert went out he would have been 65 mile away and perhaps the traffic jam at that place would not be nearly as bad. My point, and the point of the video was that jumping in a car when an alert goes out with 15 minutes till impact is not a good plan. They said that being in your basement offers much more protection than being in a car. And if you have a traffic jam and get out to walk it is even worse. It also pointed out that this guy fled without his wife. If your plan is to jump in a car and flee as soon as you get the alert you must assume that others will not be home at that instant.
But even if you are like Lot and flee a few hours before the missiles hit the city, how much did you pack? You are going to wind up living in a cave with almost 0 preparation. If instead you are like Abraham and left years earlier you can be in a very good and safe vantage point when this attack comes.
So the video had three types of people. First was the guy with the bug out bag who had prepped, but continued to live in the target city. That was a bad plan. The second was a guy who followed the government guidelines which were to shelter in place, in your basement. That was a "better" plan, but still terrible. Even though they survive the initial blast, what next? Your house, city, job, bank account are all vaporized. Your car is destroyed. Gas stations are shut down. You can't continue to live there so you will have to walk out of that city, in a zone with high radiation, with some kind of dust mask on. You won't be able to carry anything, so your outcome will be gruesome.
The third type were what they called people "milling". Meaning they ignored the warning, went back to sleep, played video games, watched TV, whatever. Their situation is the worst. Of course many are vaporized, many are badly burned and die within the first two weeks, and still others are burned but hang on for a month or two.
But that is describing the three groups living in Sodom and Gomorrah. This ignores Lot who left a few hours beforehand. Compared to those three groups Lot does much better and that ignores Abraham who is living the life of the altar and the tent. He comes out of this without any damage or loss.
So then it hit me, look at Lot, he was given more than a fifteen minute warning. If this guy had "bugged out" just 15 minutes before the alert hit everyone's phones he probably would have been traveling at 65 mph for 15 minutes before others started flooding the highway. If he had bugged out 1 hour before the alert went out he would have been 65 mile away and perhaps the traffic jam at that place would not be nearly as bad. My point, and the point of the video was that jumping in a car when an alert goes out with 15 minutes till impact is not a good plan. They said that being in your basement offers much more protection than being in a car. And if you have a traffic jam and get out to walk it is even worse. It also pointed out that this guy fled without his wife. If your plan is to jump in a car and flee as soon as you get the alert you must assume that others will not be home at that instant.
But even if you are like Lot and flee a few hours before the missiles hit the city, how much did you pack? You are going to wind up living in a cave with almost 0 preparation. If instead you are like Abraham and left years earlier you can be in a very good and safe vantage point when this attack comes.
So the video had three types of people. First was the guy with the bug out bag who had prepped, but continued to live in the target city. That was a bad plan. The second was a guy who followed the government guidelines which were to shelter in place, in your basement. That was a "better" plan, but still terrible. Even though they survive the initial blast, what next? Your house, city, job, bank account are all vaporized. Your car is destroyed. Gas stations are shut down. You can't continue to live there so you will have to walk out of that city, in a zone with high radiation, with some kind of dust mask on. You won't be able to carry anything, so your outcome will be gruesome.
The third type were what they called people "milling". Meaning they ignored the warning, went back to sleep, played video games, watched TV, whatever. Their situation is the worst. Of course many are vaporized, many are badly burned and die within the first two weeks, and still others are burned but hang on for a month or two.
But that is describing the three groups living in Sodom and Gomorrah. This ignores Lot who left a few hours beforehand. Compared to those three groups Lot does much better and that ignores Abraham who is living the life of the altar and the tent. He comes out of this without any damage or loss.
What does that have to do with Ecclesiastes saying that pattern is prophecy? As it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end.
The cheapest missiles we have for incoming rockets and missiles and low flying planes is $20,000 to $100,000 per shot. Meanwhile drones capable of killing people can be made for as little as $3,000. They have these "motherships" which can hold 100 of these, fly them close to a city like LA and then release them. Imagine ten mother ships releasing 1,000 of these cheap drones to attack a city like LA, flying through the streets shooting anyone outside. Imagine 10,000 of these drones. Yes, a machine gun could probably knock one out of the sky. So a guy who is a good shot could probably shoot down a $3,000 drone with 20 rounds from an AK 47 or one or two rounds from a shotgun. But if these things are flying at street level how many people will be hit by friendly fire? The B2 bomber costs $2 billion per plane. You could buy about 700,000 of these cheap drones for the price of one expensive, stealth bomber. This is where modern warfare is, right now. Robots, drones, and AI controlling it. The US has 12 B2 bombers, my point is simply that the US and China can both afford these drones. They can be used for surveillance, they can be used to fire missiles, they can be used to fire bullets.
A long long time ago in a deep blue city far far away......
(Literal intergalactic US political news in the major US city of San Diego, a major geopolitical military industrial complex hub from about 2 days ago Darth Vader officially arrived to delivers two remarks before the City Council on behalf of the Emperor.)
(Literal intergalactic US political news in the major US city of San Diego, a major geopolitical military industrial complex hub from about 2 days ago Darth Vader officially arrived to delivers two remarks before the City Council on behalf of the Emperor.)
Welcome to the Spin cycle
The only thing worse that the US losing the reserve currency is if the world knows we didn't want to lose it.
The Treasury Secretary and the Vice President are both questioning whether or not the reserve currency is in our best interest. This is incredibly stupid and shows how little respect they have for Americans, treating them like morons. Recently Europeans were marvelling over the standard of living in the US being so high when they came to see the world cup. That high standard of living is due to the US having the reserve currency status. What JD Vance and Bessent are doing is admitting we are going to lose the reserve currency but trying to paint this as a good thing. Imagine the Germans saying at the end of WW2 when it was obvious they were going to lose "Do we really want to win this war? Is winning a world war really a good thing?"
For example consider
1. Egypt and the Suez Crisis (1956)
Militarily, Egypt was decisively beaten when a coalition of Britain, France, and Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and seized the Suez Canal. The Egyptian military was completely overwhelmed.
BREAKING: Bessent to Tap $1T Treasury Account for Bond Buybacks!
The only thing worse that the US losing the reserve currency is if the world knows we didn't want to lose it.
The Treasury Secretary and the Vice President are both questioning whether or not the reserve currency is in our best interest. This is incredibly stupid and shows how little respect they have for Americans, treating them like morons. Recently Europeans were marvelling over the standard of living in the US being so high when they came to see the world cup. That high standard of living is due to the US having the reserve currency status. What JD Vance and Bessent are doing is admitting we are going to lose the reserve currency but trying to paint this as a good thing. Imagine the Germans saying at the end of WW2 when it was obvious they were going to lose "Do we really want to win this war? Is winning a world war really a good thing?"
America Is Sacrificing The Dollar
For example consider
1. Egypt and the Suez Crisis (1956)
Militarily, Egypt was decisively beaten when a coalition of Britain, France, and Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula and seized the Suez Canal. The Egyptian military was completely overwhelmed.
- The Reality: Egypt lost control of its territory and suffered heavy casualties.
- The Spin: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser refused to admit defeat. When pressure from the U.S. and the Soviet Union forced the Anglo-French coalition to withdraw, Nasser claimed complete victory. He framed the retreat of foreign powers as a triumph of Egyptian resistance and his own personal leadership. This successfully transformed a humiliating military rout into a massive political win, cementing Nasser as a hero across the Arab world.
BREAKING: Bessent to Tap $1T Treasury Account for Bond Buybacks!
The US stock Exchange is no longer a good investment.
Gold has been mined for 6,000 years, ever since we had the garden of Eden. We don't do anything to increase it's value and it should be considered a standard measure of value. In other words set gold to 0.
Over the last 5 years gold has gone up relative to the US dollar 79.82%. That means the US dollar in the last five years has lost 45% of its value. Something that cost $1 five years ago now costs $1.80. Meanwhile the S&P 500 has gone up 74% relative to the US dollar, which means relative to gold it has lost 5.8%. Those 500 companies represent the US economy, even the global economy.
That is a dramatic change, especially when you consider gold is not supposed to be an investment. It is supposed to be an asset that will not lose value.
Gold has been mined for 6,000 years, ever since we had the garden of Eden. We don't do anything to increase it's value and it should be considered a standard measure of value. In other words set gold to 0.
Over the last 5 years gold has gone up relative to the US dollar 79.82%. That means the US dollar in the last five years has lost 45% of its value. Something that cost $1 five years ago now costs $1.80. Meanwhile the S&P 500 has gone up 74% relative to the US dollar, which means relative to gold it has lost 5.8%. Those 500 companies represent the US economy, even the global economy.
That is a dramatic change, especially when you consider gold is not supposed to be an investment. It is supposed to be an asset that will not lose value.
Do not get confused. The reason the bond market is so important is because people who do large financial transactions in US dollars use bonds. If I am going to be buying billions of dollars of something using US dollars I won't get dollars, I'll get bonds because unlike cash the bonds are equivalent to US dollars that pay interest. For example you could give a bank 200k in US bonds to hold on your behalf and they would loan you 200k for a mortgage which is tax deductible interest and you would be paying at the lowest possible rate. So a millionaire could buy a house for next to nothing in interest because you compare the interest rate you are getting on the US bonds with the interest rate on the mortgage. Assume a collateralized mortgage rate is 5% and you are getting 5% on your bonds. So that is a wash, except the 5% you pay is tax deductible so in reality you are paying 3%. You could have paid in cash but then you wouldn't get the extra 2% interest.
Once you understand that, then you understand that interest rates rising on bonds means less and less people (foreigners) are using US dollars. This is known as dedollarization. They are switching from the US dollar as a reserve currency to gold.
Why are they doing that? On average US bonds are paying around 3.5-4% interest. Over five years, compounded that would be less than 25%. Over the same five years gold has gone up 79%. Both US bonds and Gold are priced in US dollars. If I am buying something and the seller needs US dollars they can take gold just as easily as bonds. Also the transaction is done digitally. You don't have to deliver gold bars, simply change the ownership of gold held in a bullion bank.
Now there is one more advantage to US bonds, you don't need them held in a vault. You don't have to pay money to the vault to keep your gold. However, that is a small advantage that would mean if US bonds were performing slightly worse than gold people would still prefer them. But the bonds are performing a lot worse than gold, not slightly. As US inflation increases it will perform even worse. You will know when the beginning of the end is because the US Fed will have to buy their own bonds and that is precisely what is happening now.
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