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Do Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama Canal annexations seem more realistic now? The "Liberation Day" story, where a "kind" Empire is ripped off by everyone else, was likely meant to prepare the US public for the consequences of a sad reality: $36 trillion in sovereign debt. As Larry Fink warns, by 2030, mandatory government spending and debt service will consume all federal revenue, creating a permanent deficit. Can tariffs cause a dollar shortage outside the US? In a repeat of 2008, could the swap lines for foreign banks be used to force the entire North America into a tighter US grip? Could a "continental US" with four new parts be integrated and defended as a self-sufficient economy and a new not-so-kind-anymore Empire, while the rest of the world faces the horror of a collapsing reserve currency and trade? Too crazy to be true, right? Right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_geFKCSgwg
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I understand this stuff about as much as I understand the inner workings of my cellphone which is to say: not very well. But looking at systems in a broad way, isolationism seems to be heading towards the default in the short term as a matter of course. Ecological dictums seem to require it at this point, resilience demands it until new systems that are compatible with eco collapse (or maybe in Singularity style alter that paradigm) emerge, "supply chains" are insanely vulnerable. Which geopolitical actors seem to intuit even if their intentions are aligned with different world views that have nothing to do with 'climate change'.
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