Slow Collapse

[Mortblanc]

Nothing is that sudden SS. It could have been back in the Cold War days but not now. We are frogs slowly boiling in the pot of water on the fire. It might well be boiling already and we don't realize it because it was so slow.

If the stage has been set for the past 12 years that is not a sudden onset. That is a slow buildup and slide into the final little fart.

Almost all of what was once the free world is living today in the embrace of what can only be called a light form of martial law.

Every government now feels they have the right to tell people when and where they can go, who they can meet and how many can be in the room at the same time. We are also told what we can say and where it can be said, and to whom. While courts debate whether burkas can be prohibited at workplaces we are being required by the government to wear a face covering outside out home! There are real life penalties to the violation of any of these laws we have accepted to keep us safe and un-insulted.

"Health passports" are now a thing that is accepted as inevitable.

Shortages, empty shelves and fuel restrictions are so commonplace we do not see them as the SHTF we used to warn of. The government and their media spokespeople even cheerfully warn us to expect it as a happy expectation.

We don't have troops in the streets because there simply are not enough troops to offer good coverage. They are too expensive, we can't afford them.

Which brings up the only way we can really have a sudden SHTF situation. A sudden and unanticipated war. The west is over ripe for that.