California & The West , Coming Utilities Crash !

The National Grid will collapse , if its EMP Attack , or just 
plain negligence on the part of the Utilities Company
we should be getting ready for being without power ,water 
internet and telephone for a long time . 

WELL with MUCH SPECULATION with regards to the nationwide AT&T system failure that we just had a few days ago . IS this a PRELUDE to what is going to happen ? I have to start in my state of California with this rant . NOW WHEN I am talking about right now is currently " ALL UTILITIES  " [ Water , electrical and communications]  .  ERR , if there was an apocalypse scenario, then I don't think debt would matter then, right? Lol. I'm just saying... but in all regards that is fantastic model to be debt-free and I think that should be everybody's goal. Same as prepping for anything else but it might last longer. Unless there is an EMP strong enough to knock offline hundreds of substations offline at once power would be back in a few weeks at most. Don’t get me wrong, if something like that happens supply chains will be locked up for years and would cause a HUGE problems with the cold food supply and those who depend on medications. Just prep with three months as goal and you should be fine for literally all but the absolutely worst situation.The question isn’t weather a hack would take the grid down but scale of preps. This kind of attack has happened to Ukraine during its war with Russia and hacks were less effective than expected. This hasn’t, apart from this, been used in a major war but we can predict based on similar events. The big issue in the cyber attacks on infrastructure has less to do with functionality, at least in my understanding, and more to do with files being tracked to see who owes what.  At the point of a cyber attack that lasts for weeks, we will all be in a world of hurt and nothing can be prepared for it. But a few weeks with no power isn't going to change my life much. I have lots of food and water.

AT&T CYBERATTCK ???

So first , I will like to start with AT&T , which probably going to crash first . If a EMP attack was to happen , it will be like a gut blow out with the old telephone company , that has probably the shadiest billing services , is pulling the plug on it's copper landline service for a more internet based service which could crash if there was a cyber attack . AT&T filed an application to end its Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) obligation in March 2023. The first of several public hearings on the application is being held today by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which is considering AT&T's request. An evidentiary hearing has been scheduled for April, and a proposed decision is expected in September.Recent comments from residents stressed the importance of landlines for emergency services. Residents also described problems with wireless service that could serve as the only replacement for copper networks in areas that AT&T hasn't deemed profitable enough for fiber lines.

If it’s not a cyber incident it’s not required to be reported. This could be an internal routing issue. Isn't it hilarious how all these suits and companies laid off their IT and Security teams; and then all of a sudden we start seeing catastrophic service failures and security incidents??? It's like the positions are critical or something.The number of direct physical attacks on U.S. power grids soared 77 percent last year to 163, a record-high, according to the US Energy Department. Since last September, attacks were reported on 18 substations and one power plant each in Florida, Oregon, Washington and the Carolinas. The attacks underscored the vulnerability of the U.S. electric grid, which keeps electricity flowing across more than 470,000 miles of circuits and includes more than 7,300 power plants, 160,000 miles of high-voltage power lines and 55,000 transmission substations.We didn't know for several hours what was causing the outage last week, but what we did see has given some reassurance. Federal authorities really jumped to action fast. The FBI, Homeland Security and the Federal Communications Commission all worked together to make sure there was not a bigger threat.Of all the contingencies we can prep for, CI & ICS vulnerability is at the forefront. Dirty bombs, EMPs, civilian war…all of those are much less likely than a nation-state hacker jacking up our water purification and power plants (for example). Lots of precedent in that space already: https://www.eenews.net/articles/inside-the-water-sectors-push-to-gird-for-russian-hackers/Gen-Pop doesn’t realize the full magnitude of how perilous our CI & ICS landscape is. It’s one of the major verticals in my professional space. The Feds (yeah, yeah..pls save it) DO get it and have a sizable initiative to fortify it…but it’s a long way from being bulletproof.If you can check off the bulletpoints in the post above, you’ve got a fighter’s chance at navigating a disruptive cyber event.

PG&E CRASHING in TWO YEARS 2025 AD.

Besides AT&T going crashing . The West Coast , pretty much California is being set up for a major power grid catastrophe . It may not be TERRORISM . But a big company failure .I agree that PG&E is corrupt and inept and needs to be totally revamped. But being “rescued” by the SF Board of Supervisors is like Bozzo the clown dashing into the cockpit of a crashing airliner to save the day. PG&E is trying to squeeze the consumer to pay for upgrades in how electrical systems are delivered . Now the new scheme is to charge consumers based on income , rather than use. This seems clearly meant to recapture revenue from solar customers. Solar customers that generate all the electricity they use would pay up to $1100 per year in additional charges despite effectively using zero power. Might as well add battery power and go completely off grid at that point.“The proposal recommends a qualified, independent state agency or third party be responsible for verifying customers’ total household incomes”. WE can also guess that PG&E has it's pockets in the state governor's pockets like NEWSOM , who has benefited to the corrupt utilities company .  "Customers for California’s three major power companies — including PG&E ratepayers — can expect to see some big changes in their monthly electricity bills in the coming years as compliance with a new state law begins to unfold."This is so useless. Which law?This is blatantly discrimination. What if high income earners are actually more conservative to the power usage. Doesnt make any sense. It feels like just another way of getting more money because of solar. And the relevance of this tale isn’t just confined to the West Coast—it should alarm anybody who’s ever turned on a light. As Blunt writes: “PG&E’s failure isn’t just a California story. It is, in many ways, a harbinger of challenges to come as climate change exacerbates the vulnerability of the grid, built decades ago to serve a different era of electricity demand.” This 2025  crisis was not simply caused by negligence and poor planning, he outcome is dismal when the growing spectre of climate change collides with negligence, greed, and market-driven interference. Blunt points out that utility companies across the U.S. West face the same threat of fire, while in the rest of the country climate change-fuelled storms menace the grid—and in many of those places, companies must also sacrifice safety in the service of profit.That (scope) is true. Plus some of the lines are VERY old.But, they dug their own grave. They have not been maintaining them properly for ages. And, on a similar vein, they knew the industry was going to change radically, at least a decade ago. Maybe they (and most of us) didn't know it was going to change that fast but it is their business to plan for changes.I have *very* little sympathy for PG&E. But... at the end of the day they are a for profit company. On the other hand, the CPUC is supposed to represent us, the California consumers, and they have not.

EMP ATTACK ??? 

In 2034: A novel of the next world war”, this is employed against the U.S. and results in a crippling of the U.S.’s basic functions. Very possible with all the proliferation of tech and reliance on digital transactions versus hard currency. EVERYTHING is run by computers, gasoline pumps, water, power grids. And you can guarantee when people are in line at Walmart at they can't checkout they'll just leave with baskets of shit. It won't take but a few weeks to turn into chaos. Cyber attacks should be taken far more seriously. The book by Ted Koppel, Lights Out, elaborates how catastrophic things could be (and how vulnerable we are.) It is more of a documentary with interviews, etc.It seems like in today's day and age, some foreign nations choose the death by a thousand cuts method. So they won't bring everything down all at once, but little by little over time.And if COVID was a soft test of our mental, I fear your right. I suppose for those taking notes, Americans really do only need like 3 weeks to forget a major event and move on. survive the main wave of panic and things should be manageable 😂 This and financial issues are my focuses in prepping. Imagine America paralyzed for even a month with limited access to internet, payment systems, critical infrastructure.It’s not even about a single blow, just the ability to cause widespread chaos solely through the internet/computers that’s so terrifying. In that scenario, I’m not worried about Chinese paratroopers or a secret migrant army - I’m worried about everyone losing their minds with fear.Seriously, I think I’m 100x more likely to get killed by some panicking Americans than any foreign soldier. We are the biggest threat to ourselves.

The NAVALNY MYSTERY ?

"Was Navalny an intelligence asset of MI6 or CIA, or both?"

Scott Ritter: "Both... we tried to put lipstick on this pig and turn him into the symbol of democracy, but he was never a democrat. He was always a disruptive force, trained, funded and directed by the CIA."

The "death of Alexei Navalny " is pretty much a mystery , even if you leave aside the propaganda that he was poisoned by Putin . And you look at this man was called a opposition leader fighting against Putin for Democracy. Yes, you probably believe everything that the mainstream news media hype's up . You have been taken to the Psyop Cleaners ! I'm not trying to defend Russia, or Putin. I don't know what this situation is in Russia because I'm constantly berated by anti-russia news media. But why is it that most western democracies are coming out saying that Navalny's death is of grave concern? Meanwhile they are quiet on the deaths of thousands of women & children? All while Russia is inviting Palestinian leadership to talks, and generally supports their emancipation from Isr@el? The Western media continuously referred to him as the (1)>>“Russian Opposition leader” despite his party not even serving in the State Duma. How can you be the Leader of the Opposition when you or your party has zero legislative representation? Secondly, Navalny was ideologically very close to Putin, “Opposition Leader” makes it seem like he actually opposes the Kremlin on ideological grounds. He doesn’t, he’s a notorious right-winger (like Putin) who supported the Russian annexation of Crimea. There are a lot of strange things about Navalny that don't make any sense in the first place Am going say this first. Yes, it's his home. Yes, he has every right to go there. But he knew ful well that he had violated parole , of a three year sentence and he had to have known at the very least he'd be arrested. It was brave, for sure. However, it's likely going to cost him his life. He barely survived Putin's alleged  first attempt.  He should have fled to the United States, sought asylum. (1.2)>>So it's HIS OWN FAULT . How do you legally exile a citizen of your country? It’s not Middle Ages or something.Also, he returned to Russia on his own accord, knowing too well what would happen to him, probably to become a martyr or because he received some guarantees from his foreign benefactors. I don’t pity him, he knew what he was doing. The same mistake won't be made twice. The timing is hilarious. Putin- Tucker interview comes out and mentions trying to end the war with Ukraine, but the USA said Ukraine should fight. And then this bomb drops a week later. Americans are too stupid to realize their government is not working for the people. And any government that is, is not an ally to the u.s. glad more people are aware of the blatant propaganda and false flags to implement this perspective. Remember that already NOW US President Joe Biden is pushing for harder sanctions against Russia , which whatever they'll work is never worked before . So , to TRUTHFUL , with the HARD TRUTH about Navalny. They're using his death to catapult him into the limelight. You can guarantee that he knew his time was up, remember the CIA are running Ukraine, and you can bet that there are Ukrainian prisoners in Russian prisons and guards that can be bought with connections back to the CIA. He had become a lame duck to them, why not kill him, blame Putin, use that narrative to force through the $60B 'aid' package and take the light of the Tucker Carlson interview, and how beautiful and peaceful Russia is. Plus the fact that every MSM outlet along with almost every western gov't and celebrities are all telling us what a wonderful man he was for opposing Putin... he was caught on video planning a coup. The Story of Navalny is such a big lie . He was just like Venezuelan pretender Guaido, following the re-election of Maduro, escaped Venezuela voluntarily. He was promoted by Western nations as the true president of Venezuela (despite having never been a candidate in the election), to the point where the UK seized assets of $1 billion gold that belonged to Venezuelan officials, deposited in UK banks, and declared Guaido to be the true caretaker of those assets.Navalny is an old propaganda device, from previous western brainwashing cycles. Every time a popular neonazi like him gets arrested western press calls it Putin arresting his "opposition" then unanimously declare this neonazi to be the true leader of Russia. So now they can overthrow Russia, kill Putin and put Navalny in charge or whoever doesn't matter, they don't like Navalny its more of a pre-written script with interchangeable characters. The USA is so corrupted by propaganda that they will tell you one mans death is a tragedy while ignoring a genocide, and people eat it up. It's easy to get lost in the death of one individual, regardless of what they stood for, because that is easy to understand. The deaths of thousands, possibly millions of people is hard to understand, most people can't even imagine it. So using the death of one man that was a corrupt tool of the system himself, is a great way to distract the masses from something else. Like using a card trick in one hand, while the magician steals your wallet with the other hand.

NOTES AND COMMENTS: (1)>>“Russian Opposition leader” . Navalny received payment in Bitcoin from the US Department of International Affairs for his work against the Russian government. In addition, he also evaded paying taxes, for which he was imprisoned for 3.5 years. So he is not a political prisoner at all. Navalny was supposed to be in prison for many more years, so he wasn't a real opposition to anyone. Apparently, Tacker's interview got too popular lately, so there was a need for something like Navalny's death to happen. Now the question is, who benefited from his death, and out of those who had capacity to pull that off. Navalny was involved with neo-nazi groups in early 2000s and when his open radical nationalism and racism against non-slavic etthnic group was no longer appealing to the audience, he switched sides. Threw under the bus his former comrades which lead to jail time for many. His entire career was built on empty promises and exposee reports against oligarchy as well as government members. "Independent" media was building imagine of martyr who fights against the evil regime while Navalny himself was financed by oligarchy. His entire political career brough no positive changes to the country even on minor, local scale.I looked up about Navalny. Here's some facts. In 2007, Navalny co-founded the National Russian Liberation Movement,, which sets immigration policy as a priority. The movement allied itself with two nationalist groups, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration and Great Russia. In the same year, Navalney released several anti-immigration videos, including one where he advocated for the deportation of all migrants. Later, through his social media channels, Navalny and his team published material about corruption in Russia including detailed information about a large multimillion dollar villa owned by Putin, and Navalny organised political demonstrations against Putin and his government ... which received large western media coverage, though actual turnout in the demonstrations was just in the hundreds. Navalny was not actually a major political threat to Putin. His Russian following was relatively small, and in the 2013 Moscow mayoral election Navalney came in second with 27% of the vote.(1.2)>>So it's HIS OWN FAULT . I find it hilarious when I see all these Russophobes in Europe call Navalny 'a hero of democracy' The reason why the west adored him is because he was ready to serve Russia on a plate had he ever ascended to power. He was pretty much the west's #1 Russian stooge. He went to Germany for medical treatment and what shocked me was him returning to Russia when he could've lived comfortably lived in Germany or any other western European nation of his choice. Heck even the Americans would've welcomed him with open arms had he chose to go there but since he was hell bent on causing chaos in Russia he flew back. Navalny's comments about Asians and brown people also say a lot about him. Mind you Russia is a very diverse nation which has citizens with Asian facial features. According to Navalny, 'Asian & brown people aren't human'.

SUPER BOWEL 58 & RIGGED CONSPIRACY THEORY .

The same deluded people who were saying that we have to support Ukraine and now Israel missed a good distraction . The 58th Superbowl . (1)>>COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! The 49ners played what looked like a good game , then somehow how the Chiefs were so behind , they all of a sudden towards the ending , going into overtime Chiefs  won the game .I honestly can’t stop laughing imagine believing that Kansas City, Missouri Chiefs owes by a very religious family is the secret leftist agenda. 2024 is wild. The whole game was vary bizarre, it didn't look like the players were playing only past half time ... while the 49ers looked that they were going to win , it seemed so , but it was all to fool the audience . CRAZY TIMES we live in folks ! If our election system is rigged and scripted ....the "beloved " (1.2)>>*SUPER BOWEL is scripted and rigged .After the Superbowl, I'm pretty sure everything is rigged now. Elections, football games, pro wrestling, The Voice, etc. As a niner fan this game finally opened my eyes that the NFL is scripted all these years I wasted years of crushing my mental health over scripted football. *WORSE PART about the 58th Bowel was the constant bombardment of propaganda of the likes of Satanic imagery , Pro-Israeli imagery , BLM propaganda and yes of course (2)>>Taylor Swift . If you watched the halftime show and didn't think it was satanic your in trouble, but if you did think it was satanic and you watched it anyways your all good. People were talking about the NFL script writers were getting lazy with their storylines with the Taylor Swift/Travis Kelce stuff, but in reality their actual source was just flipping the NBA script. Unfortunately for our beloved Niners, the real dagger on Sunday was actually Steph Curry's late three against Phoenix on Saturday night. The truth was there this whole time, we just had to open our third eyes to see it.I feel like every opinion about the 49ers losing is entirely based on beliefs people had before the game. The 49ers had an exceptional defense which is why Chiefs were kicking the ball so much. Honestly it seemed to me like the 49ers were giving their all and the Chiefs weren't in the first half but still pulled through, but I could say that about most Chiefs games that's just how they playIf you thought Purdy was a bad QB carried by his supporting cast then Purdy is the reason they lost. If you think Kyle Shanahan is an overrated choke artist then they lost because they stopped running the ball for two drives. (3)>>I BELIEVE that the some one was paid to win and the other team was paid to loose the game .The woke ratings starved NFL wants woke Travis Kelce proposing to Taylor Swift on the 50 yard line. Now lets get real ...what about all the Deep State propaganda, Oh, Satire. At first I thought this was serious and then realized it was humorous  .There was a long ass commercial for Christians that showed a bunch of people getting their feet washed by someone else. Just a bunch of still images of that and then at the end it said something like "Jesus didn't hate. He washed feet." Not even joking.The fact that it's the second time a Superbowl game went in OT is no surprise. Once I saw the camera keep zooming in to Taylor Swift who was accompanied by Lana del Rey, ice spice, etc., my gut just told me it's a scam.I have had suspicions for a while, but when the NFL started partnering with the gambling industry, I became convinced. You don't partner with the most corrupt industry on the planet and somehow keep the stink off. So, of course the NFL is dirty. There's too much money at stake for it not to be.NFL has been loosing young people left and right, this game felt "too" exciting, felt similar to watching WWE. I will never ever watch the Superbowl again. It is rigged. I saw players wide open for catches and throws to the opposition on purpose. I am officially disgusted. The 49ers were the better team and should have won. I'm done. Everyone knows the NFL is rigged!

NOTES AND COMMENTS:

(1)>>COINCIDENCE? I THINK NOT! NOW if the 49ers win I’ll take back what I said. But Kelce is for Phyzer and Mahomes is for State Farm, they both sponsored the Super Bowl. You’d have to be a fool to not think it’s rigged. Go back and look at the 49ers faces during the game. They already knew they wasn’t gonna win. They looked so sad, and honestly it is sad. Finally make it to the nfl and find out it’s just some bullshit.The score was 22/25 which equals 47 and when you add 4+7 you get 11. When you subtract it, you get 3. Idc what ya say, the NFL is considered “entertainment” which means they won’t be held accountable for rigging or gambling on a game (which is illegal, or was). (1.2)>>*SUPER BOWEL is scripted and rigged . NFL wanted KC to win. did you see all the celebrities getting their publicity? The second Moody's PA was blocked I knew it was over. The guy hasn't missed a PA all season and suddenly he kicks it 6 feet off the ground. NFL is nothing more than pro wrestling anymore. I'm done watching. even if it wasn't rigged, the game has become a boring waste of time to watch. I'm all Hockey now...until they rig that sport too. Did you notice how the cameras panned to Taylor Swift before the final touchdown to win the game? Predictive programming and fixed. Formula One also made Lewis Hamilton the most successful driver for inclusion and diversity. They wanted him to beat Michael Schumacher's record championships.Never ever throw a Super Bowl in Vegas again the script they wrote was god awful. 0-0 1st quarter, all the early penalties, longest field goal made in super bowl history, all the fumbles, big receivers choked, they kept us on edge with the back & forth 3pt game and it went to Overtime the silliest game of the year. That SCREWED the 49ers all through the game because they did this all in the name of Taylor Swift. In all of the celebrities that were in attendance at the Superbowl they mostly ignored them so they can keep showing Taylor Swift . There's a rumor that Taylor Swift is gonna be in every single daytime talk show this week and gonna have dinner with Biden along with Kelce in a televised dinner on Wednesday. (2)>>Taylor Swift . But, I believe another story. Is the NFL rigged; yes, it’s been rigged for some time now, and Roger Goodell admitted this a few years ago. He claim they did it for more money, better viewing. Now, as well all know, the viewership of the NFL has taken a huge hit over the past years. Even the Super Bowl has taken hits, especially over the halftime shows. Now, with all that in mind, let’s turn to Taylor Swift. I believe she has been used, because of her popularity, and it doesn’t matter if you like her or not, she is very popular. She did take a small hit with her decision to try the political world and I hope she learned her lesson from doing that. So, knowing the media has used other incidents with Taylor, knowing the NFL, why not use Taylor Swift and her relationship, only to get the viewership of the Super Bowl up. Now, did it really happen, we will truly never know the truth, but, according to the media, it worked. So, all of this is really, the media using Taylor Swift to help Roger Goodell and the NFL get viewership. Now, I do hope Taylor has learned to keep her mouth shut about the political world, we shall see, but you can bet, even if she does, the crooked democrats will use the last election actions, and we need to make sure they don’t rig the elections like they helped Roger rig the Super Bowl. (3)>>I BELIEVE that the some one was paid to win and the other team was paid to loose the game . REMEMBER , that the Super bowel is just a game played by "actors". The Days of REAL sports are far gone . Team players on both sides get a script , and they follow it . YET they get paid win or lose . Example :Every player who participates in the divisional playoffs in the 2023–2024 season made $46,500 — in addition to their already massive salaries.Per Bet MGM, the four teams that make the conference champions, which determine who will go to the Super Bowl, take home $69,000 per player, and that's whether they win or lose! Just playing in the Super Bowl will net each player a minimum of an $82,000 bonus. And that is if you lose the game!On the flip side, a player on the winning team walks away with a bonus of nearly twice that amount: $157,000.. Refs fix games to make money off betting, not to serve their overlords. If the NFL actually tried to do this it would get leaked immediately.Bad calls happen all around the league. The main thing we get screwed on is holding calls. That’s sort of just the micah parsons effect. He’s so fast and explosive that it makes it harder to catch those things. And he’s a young player who doesn’t know all the tricks lineman learn over the years. Over time he’ll learn how to “sell it” more and get those calls. It's no longer a real game out in the field. It's more like a movie , where as I said , are merely actors to create entertainment .The best way to rig it would be for the 49er's, is to have them to appear in multiple Super Bowls, but lose each one in stupefying fashion to the other team. This has happen before , where they played and lost .The teams that go to the Super Bowl are the only teams that get noticably great whistles. This is just how it is. 

Tucker Carlson and Putin . THE INTERVIEW of the CENTURY .

THE INTERVIEW of the CENTURY .
Tucker Carlson may have opened up the can of worms , all the western 
lies about the Ukraine war. AND the current 
Situation between Russia and the United States.

It was interesting but none of it was surprising. I think Tucker did a good job as pushing back about the historical borders question. That isn't fair. We have had amazing journalist interview world leaders and push back before. Even Barbara Walters famously pushed hard. Christine Amapour, Larry King.. That NOW the DEEP STATE , and the Deep Media is having a meltdown over the anticipated INTERVIEW of the CENTURY . I thought it was GREAT how much Putin talked about the history of the Russia and Ukraine, going back 1200 years ago, how Ukraine was consistently part of Russia, if not legally, at least linguistically, culturally, same people, etc.... More than anything else, Carlson seemed surprised: by the fact that he got to interview Putin in the Kremlin and even film himself sharing some post-interview impressions in a room full of lacquer and gold leaf; by what Putin said during the interview; and by the man himself. Putin used the interview to deliver a lengthy lecture on the history of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and its aftermath, meant to convince viewers that Ukraine never had a right to exist. Ukraine was as Putin said a "by product of the Soviet era " .The world and borders hundreds of years ago are not fixed for eternity, the people of Ukraine is what Ukraine is today. To be brief, the territory of what's now modern Ukraine was then embedded in a tumultuous political landscape and competition between multiple great powers in various stages of rise and decline and Khmelnytsky leads a people that is not independent, but not without significant military force, but not so significant that he can fight any battle of his choosing without allies. Those allies shift over time, and alliance with Muscovy is one in a long series of calculated political decisions. While not an academic history (which may be good if you're looking for something detailed but still accessible), Mikhail Zygar's War and Punishment goes into this story (chapter 1) and others commonly raised by the Russian government as justification for their position.  So it was very strange he spent so much time talking about history.He touched on how Russia was previously interested in joining NATO, it's previous close ties to the EU, how after the fall of the USSR, it's somewhat close ties to the US.With how the Russian government and media are covering the conflict, I'm hesitant to say for sure what most Russians actually think/don't think, but I'd hazard this guess: In general they wouldn't say that Yeltsin "lost" Ukraine, more that Gorbachev is ultimately to blame for the breakup of the USSR. But after the breakup I'm not sure most people in Russia would really consider Ukraine a fully separate country, rather than part of the "Near Abroad". There were still a lot of cross border connections until 2014, in any case - really things have accelerated apart in the past 10 years. Before that time I wouldn't even really say the Russian government even had any particularly coherent outlook as to how to consider Ukraine (besides "basically the same place as us"). He slightly talked about the case that Ukraine had a coup in 2014.... but he didn't go into much detail on these points.I would have found it much more interesting if he talked in detail about the points above, and also to discuss what the future holds. How a safe and cooperative relationship could one day again be achieved, what is Russia's view on that, why does Russia think things fell apart? The most charitable reading one can give to Putin on this count is that there were verbal promises made in 1990 to Gorbachev and by Clinton to Yeltsin in 1993 that NATO would not expand or add new members. That's the most charitable reading though, and really what was said or not said is disputed (the 1990 discussion from the American perspective was that NATO would not station troops in East Germany, and the American perspective on the Clinton statement was that NATO would not add new members at that time).From watching the whole video I got the impression that Putin, since he got in office in 2000 was trying to join the western club, but was not taken seriously by the Americans and Europeans, due to the way he runs things. Seems like every time he tried to make deals with US presidents they initially thought it would work, but after consulting with advisers they've backed away for some reason. Which leads me to conclude he's got a lot of bad skeletons in his closet and the US doesn't want to deal with him. Also the lack of phone calls between him and Biden suggests they both don't think any direct talks will achieve anything. I get the feeling it's like a mob boss trying to make deals with a real Government that just frowns at the prospects. I can  see the US and Russia being allies within our future lifetime, but very recently many European nations were friendly with Russia, they had cooperation and good relationships... I think it's possible that Europe and Russia to one day become more cooperative again. People look at the current conflict and think no, but long term we should aim for peace and cooperation, so it's important to consider how we can reach a solution one day, even if in the distant future.

AMERICA'S HYPOTHETICAL SECOND CIVIL WAR(S)

25 US state governors signed a petition in support of Texas against the federal government. This is an updated map of states supporting Texas. This Map either "predicts" a Divided United States, but ALSO the 2024 Election . Many Blue States will be Red .

AMERICA'S HYPOTHETICAL (1)>>SECOND CIVIL WAR(S).  The Chinese Media is hyping up the events of Texas boarder is perhaps a prelude to  "second Civil war" . Over the past month and especially this week (it is currently near the end of January, 2024), I've been hearing about this idea that there may soon be a civil war in America. Biden refusing to shut our border and losing it over state governments defending themselves isn't how I thought the Second Civil War in the U.S. would start, but I'm here for the 25 governors taking a stand. HOLD THE LINE. “In the years leading up to The Second Civil War, legislators in Red states were pushing back by passing bills to prevent the drugging, mutilation, and disfigurement of children, bills that would ironically be deemed “fascist” by the despotic Biden Regime.” (2)>>Some sources say this is solely because of a Texas border crisis, other's say it's because people are tired of 'woke agenda', other's say its both and more.Personal political bias aside, this idea seems to be mainly promoted by *some* right wing conservatives, especially on massive Twitter accounts like 'EndWokeness'. We're about to find out how far Biden's handlers are willing to go to destroy America. Will Joe Biden start our second civil war for his woke followers?  (2.1)>>Popular Chinese outlets have been suggesting that events in Texas have led to deep divisions in the US widening to a point where unrest has become a stark reality.More than 6.3m migrants have crossed into the US illegally since the beginning of 2021 - record highs that have intensified a standoff between President Joe Biden and Texas Governor Greg Abbot .I would think CHINA senses something is going on , it's not all misinformation .  (3)>>I don't expect a revolution, civil war, or coup in the next 3 years. The Democrats are Warmongers, AS long as it suits their interests as in this. Open Borders leads to Undocumented Democrat Voters and a way to destroy a country from within. This is all being perpetrated by compromised foreign interests within the current regime and its being allowed to happen because the guy "in power" is just a figurehead. Show me someone who says Biden has been the primary decision maker this whole time and I'll show you someone deluding themselves. McCarthyism is now to come back.  (4)>>Americans do not control policy in America anymore. Its collectivist (really communist) for interests.  For me all bets are off beyond that. I just can't predict that far ahead. But for the next 3 years I expect a whole lot of Americans will have too much to lose. We will have enough oil, and we might export some. Our oil companies won't export oil we need ourselves for hard currency. For the next 3 years, we will have enough food. We can even eat beef if we are willing to pay enough for it. Chicken will be affordable. We won't export most of our beef and chicken for hard curre It is hard to find any credible evidence as all sources are (understandably) politically charged one way or another. So I've watched a few youtube videos and news pieces from each side and viewpoint. It's all very conflicting, below are a couple examples from prominent political channels. On the  (5)>>SUBJECT of WAR , it appears the American government leaders are in a squabble , a foreign policy that is dangerous , pushed by war hawks in the military industrial complex. We keep hearing about WWW 3  & It all depends on if World War 3 would be the same as the last two World Wars. If so, then we all know Europe is going to be the main battleground of the war, and most European nations are greatly experienced in dealing with warfare on their own lands due to centuries of war being fought throughout their countries. Not to mention that weapons and artillery are much more advanced nowadays. As for a second civil war in the US? Well, slavery ended last time, so what would this Civil War 2.0 be about this time? Religion? Political ideologies? Racism? Just plain secession? Why feel the need to secede when you don't have a legit reason to? The union today is much more advanced and evolved than it was nearly 200 years ago. So why feel the need to secede?If anything, we will economically fall apart because our current national debt and rate of increase is unsustainable. It may be next year, it may be 30 years. (6)>>But at some point the government will economically collapse.Which coincidentally is a reason why our capitalist economy is a good thing. With private ownership and operation, a lot of businesses will be able to continue to operate somewhat even with a crumbling government, and survive until things are established. There could be hardship of course, but it will be substantially better than it would happening to many other nations.Regardless of whether you believe that true or not, hopefully our politicians can get with the program already and tackle the problem while there’s still time, hopefully.The timeline of events is ridiculous = trump + supporters “build the wall!” .. Biden “let’s not build a wall” * huge number of illegal immigrants cross the border, people complain* .. Biden ADMITS that the border is NOT SECURE. Texas tries to secure border.. and now democrats want the military to be used to stop effort used by a state to secure a border?!

NOTES AND COMMENTS: (1)>>SECOND CIVIL WAR(S). News like this is really starting to kill my hope about American politics. Although there are certain things I do not like about this bill, it was very clear that this was a common sense compromise that would be a good starting point. We reached a point where there is no middle ground.The liberal left has pushed the conservative right to the edge and now when they have the majority are pushing back. The liberal left is paying for the pound of flesh they extracted and are balking at the price. Biden opened the borders and only with an election year bitting at his heals does he want to address the problem. The United States today is, once again, headed for civil war (starting with Congress) , and, once again, it cannot bear to face it. The political problems are both structural and immediate, the crisis both longstanding and accelerating. The American political system has become so overwhelmed by anger that even the most basic tasks of government are increasingly impossible.The consequences of the breakdown of the American system is only now beginning to be felt. January 6 wasn’t a wake-up call; it was a rallying cry. When you allow a force of tens of millions into the US and remove any restriction to accessing our border you are in violation of your oath of office. If you allow known foreign intel cells into the US, then give them cell phones and money, you are engaging in actions against the security of the US. Texas is catching hundreds of people on the terrorist watchlist from a variety of nations. The Biden admin is not doing this. When this admin is given this intel they ignore it and continue to allow millions into the US. That is treason. Biden has completely abandoned this country and his whole admin should be removed from office. He’s setting a record for historic failures. I think the problem is, any mass amnesty will just encourage further illegal immigration unless the immigration system is fixed to eliminate the possibility of future illegal immigrants coming to the country as well as refugees showing up unannounced on our borders (or within our borders) and immediately being allowed to stay in the US.The bill improved border security, but that wouldn't have fixed the problem. You would have actually needed a bill that made it near impossible for any illegal immigrant to stay in the US. (2)>>Some sources say this is solely because of a Texas border crisis.How serious is the Texas border crisis? There is a significant bureaucratic issue processing refugees. This also creates something of a humanitarian challenge in the same way any sort of bureaucratic delay limiting people’s ability to work does.  range from prelude to a second civil war Not much of a war. If Texas wants to bring this to violence, they would get swatted like a gnat.  mere posturing to gain favor with Trump.It’s posturing to gain favor with Republican donors.So american liberals, please explain  like myself how serious this situation is..there there is a huge problem with the US immigration system ???This entire century. Rhetoric is always ramped up in an election year and especially when a Democrat is in the White House. Lather, rinse, repeat.I feel like we’ve been told we’re dealing with a border crisis for the last decade.Re: the "civil war" talk, it's true that we now have governors from 25 other states siding with Abbott against the Biden administration/federal government/Supreme Court, which is pretty insane. It would also be foolish for either camp to escalate this into bloodshed, and they know that, but there's going to be a lot of public pressure to get one side to back down. Whether that means Biden taking control of the National Guard, cutting off funding for certain things, or whatever else remains to be seen.(2.1)>>Popular Chinese outlets have been suggesting that events in Texas . If the US entered a civil war, China would try to prolong the conflict as much as possible, and try to maximize its own geopolitical gains in Asia and the Pacific. However, China, along with pretty much the entire world, would enter an severe economic downturn. At least initially. The United States is China’s largest trading partner, and the sudden drop in U.S. productivity and consumption would lead China to lose billions of dollars until they found a suitable replacement. China would have to decide if a weak America or a poor China is more important. I imagine that at first, China would try to drag the war out, but as they begin to lose sizable amounts of revenue, their calculus may shift.As for geopolitical goals, China would get a lot more hawkish. They would be tempted to invade Taiwan, although I still think they would refrain. China would try to gain allies in the Middle East, like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States, who would abandon the U.S. in a heartbeat. China would also try to consolidate its grip over Africa. Perhaps the biggest opportunity though would be Latin America. Traditionally the U.S. aggressively responds to any foreign influence that begins to surface and Latin America, as we saw in the Cold War, but it would be powerless to stop China while embroiled in Civil War.Back to the economic side of things, China may try to shift to becoming a consumer based economy like the U.S. China’s population is on the down turn, which does not bode well for any country, but especially countries like China which so heavily rely on cheap labor. A switch to a consumer-based economy would ease the burden of a collapsing population, and would allow for a higher quality of life for the average citizen. Conversely, a recovering America would likely revert to being more production-based, meaning that after the civil war we could see a role swap in the U.S.-China economic relationship. All in all, a fascinating hypothetical to analyze.(3)>>I don't expect a revolution, civil war, or coup in the next 3 years. People are more aware than ever that their financial security is an illusion, just as most other types are. I also believe that if another revolution were to take place in America, that the end result would appear as nothing like the first. I think a lot of folks don't realize how easy it is to become invisible in our nation, if one is willing to endure some hardship. For those already enduring an imbalance of it already, there are probably instances of violence in their lives, and feel that they have little control of it. This too is an illusion. What it is really is a choice. This choice is simple, how attached are you to the status quo, and do you honestly believe that your attachments warrant cutting off all ties. For many the answer is yes, as evidenced by the fact that there are an enormous amount of people affilicted with so-called mental disorders. While many of these are in fact indisputable, many are also social definitions for communal abnormalities. Social experiments with rats proved this long ago. As we are not rats, the scale of potential goes up exponentially when taking in the the sheer intellectual capacity that the disenfranchised truly represent. This is in social aberrations as well as technical capacity for greater impact. An example would be any of the shooter tragedies that have plagued us recently. These situations are indicators of the stress that the less influential in society feel. Personally, I feel a sleeping giant is in for a very rude awakening, for they ignored the fact they've been making their bed on a powder keg.  (4)>>Americans do not control policy in America anymore.  The RECENT BUDGET BATTLE in Washington D.C. over the border , bill , the reckless funding divide on Ukraine and Israel . Shows that the elected politicians no longer represent the American people but they are representing foreign governments in their spending budgets . Faced with big and challenging problems — climate, immigration, inequality, guns, debt and deficits — government and politicians seem incapable of achieving consensus. On each of those issues, the public is split, often bitterly. But on each, there are also areas of agreement. What’s broken is the will of those in power to see past the divisions enough to reach compromise.The US refuses to acknowledge the many problems and institutional crises confronting its democracy at home and stubbornly claims to be the template and beacon of democracy for the world. Such imperiousness perpetuates the ills of its democracy and causes dire consequences for other countries.The lack of faith extends beyond Congress, with recent polling conducted both before and after the leadership meltdown finding a mistrust in everything from the courts to organized religion. The GOP & DEMOCRATS internal bickering that for nearly three weeks has left open the speaker’s position — second in line to the presidency — is widely seen as the latest indication of deep problems with the nation’s bedrock institutions.(5)>>SUBJECT of WAR , it appears the American government leaders are in a squabble  The US has money ready to spend on Ukraine, but it's being blocked by Congress. So the amounts they've already allocated is running out, there are other funds ready but remains to be seen if these can be provided. Aid for Ukraine is the real issue. Biden is willing to tighten the border to get the aid for Ukraine that is needed. Democrats hammered out a plan that would meet many Republican demands but they continue to hold out for unacceptable restrictions. Many democrats are angry that they are being asked to give in as much as they have but most likely will go along with it if that compromise will help get needed aid to Ukraine. But Republicans of course have no intention to compromise, they never do. But I think it will be quite clear to most thinking people that republicans don’t really care about the border, about immigrants, about working together for solutions to these issues. They only want an issue that gets their bases worked into a frenzy. So Biden and company called their bluff. NOW sending Billions to Israel is another type snafu that Congress had tangled it's self in . There is a growing group that doesn't believe in sending military aide to sponsor foreign wars, in general. Israel have been lumped into this causing a non-partisan block to come out of both the left and right ideologies.Question still remains if Taiwan will be lumped in but since Taiwan is strategically more important than both Ukraine and Israel for Americans because America needs their wifi activated pillow to let them know how to sleep or their Bluetooth brush to vibrate when they've brushed enough......(6)>>But at some point the government will economically collapse.Democratic and Republican lawmakers have just two weeks to craft a new spending deal to avoid a partial government shutdown AGAIN! . But to live in the United States during this post pandemic is to experience Collapse now, not in some distant future. Collapse means radical discontinuity, and the necessity of learning ways of doing, thinking, and being that diverge sharply from previous norms. Right now we are seeing the collapse of the Two Party system within Congress .The amount of division in the United States could very well in the next few decades, unless something is not done about the political hostility in the next few years, lead to the break-up of the US. Whether or not this will happen is not what this post is about.I want to know: What would be the most likely implication if the USA were suddenly out of the picture, or split up into bickering nation-states?It is important to note, however, that Collapse is cause for optimism as well as pessimism.