Balaji is on point with his description of the West as a reincarnation of the Soviet Union.
I'd say it's already late stage (early 80s), and that the things are accelerating much faster.
People are plugging out en-mass.
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it's about to implode economically, and the timeline is way compressed, all of it has passed to here within like 25 years, from relative decentralization and sovereignty.
the leaders of the centralization effort are clearly the WEF and this nest of saturnian baby eating blood suckers.
some people are deluded into thinking that russia and china are not also compromised, the network spans the globe. mass slaughter is just around the corner.
I lived through the collapse as a small kid, on the periphery of the empire. Some vibes are similar. Yet there is so much more wealth in the west today than there was in the USSR and the satelites back then. In my opinion the system has still a lot of room to degenerate into.
BTW all my friends and their families and their friends are doing well, no signs of (financial or any real) distress detected. It's only when I look at graphs and the incomming waves of legislation things look ugly.