(22 December 2012, 11:36)SealDriver Wrote: Yes I understand that mate, but both India and China have a history of both natural and man made disasters and even if they lost one quarter of their populations they would still be able to field massive armies to go out and take the resources they require.

It's just another scenario, there are many others.......

(22 December 2012, 12:10)SealDriver Wrote: I agree with you, however nations with the power to do so are likely to attempt to take advantage of international crisis and rewrite borders on maps and secure for themselves oil and mineral resources. Thanks to the need of the west to have everything made cheaply in China, the Chinese have a great deal of technology available to them, as well as manual labour and resources. They also send their students to many of the best Western Science Universities. China has at least one foot in every civilised and uncivilised country in the world.

You asked for opinions as to what 'the end' could look like and that is a scenario that I feel 'holds water'. What just may happen is a different story as no one can know for sure unless they have a time machine.

Believing in stupid prophecies seems to have got many thousands of people unnecessarily hot under the collar, so I judge from that , that any plausible 'real world' idea has some merit.

(22 December 2012, 13:59)Skean Dhude Wrote: After TSHTF a rescue force can go in and set up food supplies and medical facilities. They then install martial law and stay until the situation is resolved. It may never be resolved enough so that they leave without significant outside pressure and there are few who would be in the position to put that pressure on. It then comes down to who 'rescued' who and who cares enough about the first to face the second.