Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "5 Countries that will Collapse by 2040." video.
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Apparently, our country in the US maybe among those even as soon as 2040....
check out this news article about Cleveland.... and the obvious powder keg of homeless that has only gotten worse particularly in places of stable year round weather from LA to Portland OR to Seattle WA and back east... every city even minor town in the US, even here in Idaho have their tent cities and vast hobo camps... in the 90's they were mostly bearded vets from Vietnam with PTSD strung out on self medicated substances to mentally ill as our embarrassment as a nation is the lack of universal healthcare and large delinquency among the mentally unwell and even challenged adults in many states, they simply don't want to deal with them, literally paying these peoples' bus tickets or even air tickets (the only two options in our inept nation's also inadequate antiquated transportation system which largely are old interstates and bridges that are falling apart quite literally).
Back to LA, Portland OR, Seattle WA, and several more in the East of the Rockies powder keg where extreme poverty huddles near extreme wealthy; it's currently exploding with riots persistently, and it's no relegated to one political stance but across left and right wing fanatics... originally we had in Idaho in the Boise area protests that saw right wingers literally go to police and other government officials homes, threatening and vandalizing their homes picketing right outside.
Then BLM movement fascists counter protesting one day with BLM group downtown, then fascists right wingers armed with whatever rifles and handguns protesting with counter BLM and other counter protesters.. just in Idaho... becoming violent in Portland OR, a weird sequestration in Seattle where even medical professionals such as GP's, dentists, dermatologist, registered nurses, etc. setting up their own medical booths to see the mass of under-insured and uninsured for free, collecting donations to rent professional plastic outhouses often used for various outdoor events and holidays in an effort to keep their protest standoff sanitary.
And with 40% of all renters in latest polls expecting to suffer an eviction in the next few months.
Below article interviews a refugee who has lived in the US for over a decade, recounts how she came from a civil war and watched people die in front of her, and now the same is happening in her own neighborhood in Cleveland.
This is on top of the usually prior to the pandemic mass murders some more spectacular thus reported on more for sick entertainment advertisement value like the most recent week ago suicide bombing in Nashville.
We have open incitement of civil war even if it's mostly advertisement for a future Trump radio or tv channel, where an obvious winner of the election and already recounts in several states that made the winner's margin widen even more, the loser attempting any strategy just to nullify an election even when courts have heard their cases and some courts throughout the challenges with prejudice as the lawyers risking perjury demonstrated the frivolous nature of their suites just as many other authoritarian and tyrannical nations.
Abandoned modern day ghost towns, many with people still living along the edges of these empty towns, places in WV and Alabama and Mississippi that even Walmart stores sit empty and long ago closed, but thousands still live in the area without a shop to buy groceries and clothing.
Field camps by doctors' without boarders conducting free annual clinics from dental to medical and doing critical procedures in WV, with Deutche Welle reporting with contempt as a field the size of several stadiums start to fill with people camping in order to be the first come first serve tickets to these field hospitals that the German reporter compares to something one generally only see in a war zones; this is the only medical these people can receive for the year.
And don't count on US oil. Our oil glut capacity is extremely transitory; comes from the excessive fracking in speculation among many small drillers, many are already in bankruptcy and couldn't maintain profitability even at $50 or $60 a barrel as the fracking sites they dug would go empty faster than originally forecast; the original idea in certain wells and basins that production would maintain for 20 to 25 years. They're already seeing a vast drop off in just 10 years in certain places and near no production on these wells in 15 to 18 years.
Very transitory as the amount of oil wasn't as expected, and just as the housing bust put thousands of housing developers into liquidation extinction, the same with oil drillers; you won't get the stampede of drillers to cause a glut in production.... these business, ultimately their investors learn.
2040 the only possible continued low prices of fuels will likely be natural gas, a glut in capacity exists for several decades and that does show to be more accurate, but as for oil production, this will be vastly tapered to production levels that were prior to 2008 that saw one barrel of oil reach $200.... expect $400 and then even more... coupling with the idea the US dollar won't be worth as much in 20 years on the same trajectory over the past prior 20 years, prior 20 years to that and so on.
And don't count on so much electric vehicles, the cost of lithium and cobalt that is used in battery production is very high, and it makes sense, takes 140 pounds of lithium and about the same of cobalt to battery one EV. Lithium is 5 times more rare than copper. And it's massively polluting and fossil fuel intensive in mining lithium and cobalt. Production capacity can never reach 10% let alone 80% without causing such basic input costs as lithium and cobalt prohibitive.
This too is assuming the US is still a world reserve currency. As the gigs up completely if US loses the current global reserve status for something else like the Euro or some other more stable region like Canadian or Australian dollars or perhaps small country like Switzerland or Sweden if those nations step up to flood the world with those bank notes.
If the US does tumble into complete chaos, that is actually a possibility...
Ironically among the reasons the US Dollar is often used as a reserve currency is the flood on the market actual printed notes held abroad; there's just enough to have a functioning reserve with them, while also being rare enough too compared to the usual purposeful mass printing of domestic note denominations. So it wouldn't be as surprise that even a defunct US, that some nations would continue to hold printed US Dollars as their reserve currency; now they're even more rare, as they wouldn't be printed anymore... ignore the fact the very nation that had printed them no longer honors them as legal tender or even exists to honor them in the first place.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gunfire-and-crashing-cars-in-struggling-neighborhoods-were-losing-our-grip/ar-BB1cpMdN?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/the-abandoned-tennessee-ghost-town-where-millionaires-vacationed/ss-BB1cqrCP?li=BBnb7Kz
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dw+poverty+in+the+us
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