When the US entered Iraq, the PR guy in Baghdad constantly said the US had lost and was being defeated by Iraqi forces. Even when fires could be seen behind him, he said the US was far away.
Why is the media doing the exact thing with the Ukraine and Russia? Heck, why are they doing that with everything?
What are they losing? It really does look like they are losing, and trying to cover up the losses.
So first, we can't fully stop what's happening from an institutional perspective, so we have to know where this goes, build anti-parallel systems, and when this stuff actually takes place, we're going to get a full scale economic collapse and you may actually see the full scale collapse of the Fabian Order.
People on the right are intentionally emotionally black-pilled, so they can't actually see that the Fabians are loosing control. It's like when they complain about gun control, and they don't realize gun rights are improving.
So, my strategy, for several years now has been:
BE THE PINECONE.
So, I'll tell you what I'm doing:
a) I'm convincing my friends to put whatever money they have away into coins as a means of protecting their savings. I've gone so far with this that I've literally handed them rolls of constitutional silver so that they can potentially barter with them if we get more lockdowns or bank accounts start to not work. I actually got one of my friends to start genuinely stacking with money he had on the side.
The point is not to get people into silver/gold. The point is to make sure they aren't the person who gets his checking account frozen because he has a mug-club account. The stupid shiny metal does something to people's brains. I don't think like normal people, so I can't fully explain it, but suffice it to say: they instinctively hoard it. In a Keynsian system, this pulls money out of the banks (which puts pressure on them), and makes sure that my friends won't lose everything when shit goes awry. They will always have the silver I've literally handed to them, and they are slowly learning to save their money for emergencies.
b) I've been engaging on a "walk on the banks", and so should you. Pull your cash out. The truth is that the banks don't need your deposits as much anymore due to money printing, and your money simply isn't safe with them at all. They'll just deny you the right to your own money so that the banks don't get a head ache. You need to start pulling money out of the bank so you can have cash on hand when they try to criminalize cash. You may need many denominations, so don't just stack hundreds. Pulling out a few hundred dollars in cash every week from your paycheck so you can have some will prevent you from losing all access to it. You should treat banks the way people used to treat BitCoin: putting money in the banks only when you need to for transactions (don't just go and do that all at once, you're just going to end up there)
c) I've been slowly building up reserves of food stuffs and other materials as they get harder to come by. I'm not the guy who tells you to build a bunker, but you should have a bit of a surplus. Couple weeks certainly.
d) Pull out of the MasterCard / Visa system. MasterCard is explicitly your enemy. But we're going to need alternate methods of purchasing goods that aren't cash. I'm going with American Express because their name has been silent in all this bullshit.
e) Consider opening up a new account at an explicitly local bank or credit union that is not homogenized to a larger entity. This way, they are forced to care about your deposits when you have to make them.
f) Get a hardware wallet for crypto. It's probably going to get criminalized, but if you think it might be worth trying to use a crypto service then you should get a hardware one.
g) I'm engaging in counter-subversion at work. The more people I get normalized to thinking outside the establishment media, the more safe they are going to be as the fire rises.
h) I'm working with online communities to try and reach as many people as I can to build up an anti-parallel structure so that when the Great Collapse hits, I'll have enough people out of it that we can form communities that can grow form the ashes. Like a pine cone in a forest fire. Hello. Maybe we should talk about building gaming clans now?
e) I'm going to continue taking every opportunity to use my wealth and power to support an anti-parallel systems professionally, personally, and online.
Thanks for your detailed response. I appreciate that you actually provided useful advice.
I just fear what happens when they have no option but to use the full hard power of the state against the populace instead of relying on the soft power they have been using to keep their system running.
They will, but use of hard power like that is typically a bad and worthless idea that will generate more blowback than anything else. You can't run everything off of soft power, and if you use hard power, others might use it back.
I've said before, I don't expect any more than 5,000 dead from direct conflict by 2030, and I still think that's a reach. More likely 500.
Sure, they might gun down a protest, but they'll gun down one protest.