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problem with your take on their strategy, and its completyely consistent with everything else they have dopne.
In the situation that you describe, and I don't for a moment discount it, I've been a peak oioler for a while jnow, the one thing they would need more than anything else, would be a functioning military with a stake in the ruling class.
And in the last 4 years they have consistenty;y, religiously, relentlessly destriyed the US military.
The elites can't fight fopr themselves, the army is broken, the guard is destroyed and they are all learning to hate Bushco with a venom.
When the military is confronted with having to save the worthless hides of the ruling elites, they are going to think,
"hmm, money is worth nothing, property is worth nothing, and we don't have enough oil anyway. All that is worth anything is the ability to sticvk a gun in someone's afce and demand their food, fuel, accomodation and perks. Now, what is it again that these people can do for us? Since we have the guns?"
Then there will be a reckoning.
Or to almost quote Jared Diamond about the greenland Norse, "all they managed to do, for all their effort in grabbing all the resources, was gain themselvbes the right to be the last to die."
Make that second to last.
The Number of the Beast 78-22
by Deep Dark on Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 04:08:48 AM PDT
They've purposely been destroying the US military because they have their own mercenaries, their own plantations in Paraguay, atop the Guarani aquifer, and probably are stashing oil & gas, as well as building solar and wind energy farms for their own needs.
Elites sneer at the US military, made up of poor rural kids with no other future. They like their Jeff Gannon-type mercenaries. ............. Climate change and desertification will in all likelihood alter growing conditions severely, not to mention our depleted soils will not be very good for growing much without the synthetic inputs. Corn & beans don't require insect pollination, but many other crops do, which will become more of a problem due to die off of many of these insects already.
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by Halcyon on Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 04:54:11 AM PDT
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plus a lifeboat strategy is not about fighting for it - the head-for-the-hills-wth-guns brigade probably won't make it either... a certain defensibility will be essential but only a small part of things...
No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood
by ResponsibleAccountable on Sun Feb 04, 2007 at 09:00:55 AM PDT
wide narrow
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