The Economic Collapse

Did you think that the Russians were just going to sit back and take whatever economic sanctions that western powers decided to dish out?  Of course the Russians were going to strike back, and they definitely have the ability to cause quite a bit of pain.  Unfortunately, economic wars have a way of becoming shooting wars, and if leaders on both sides continue to escalate matters we could soon cross a point of no return.  As it is, relations between western governments and the Russians have totally broken down.  The Russians are never going to forgive us, and western governments are never going to forgive them.  So that means that many of the economic “punishments” that are now being implemented are likely to be permanent. (Read More...)

On top of everything else, now a highly pathogenic avian influenza pandemic is ripping across the United States, and it has already resulted in the deaths of almost 2.8 million birds.  Most of the birds that have died have been chickens or turkeys.  And since this was just in the very first month of the pandemic, there is no telling how bad it could eventually become.  What will the eventual death toll look like?  Will it be in the tens of millions?  That is definitely a possibility.  And what would happen if the bird flu mutates into a version that spreads easily among humans?  We might want to start thinking about that, because that is possible too. (Read More...)

Economic conflicts have a way of becoming shooting wars, and so we should all be deeply alarmed by what we are witnessing.  With each passing day, authorities in the United States and authorities in Russia are imposing even more measures which are intended to punish the other side economically.  Thankfully, our militaries are not shooting at one another yet, but an economic war has already started and it just shifted into overdrive.  On Tuesday, Joe Biden announced that his administration has decided to ban all imports of Russian oil and natural gas… (Read More...)

There are some people out there that thought that global financial markets would be largely unaffected by the war in Ukraine.  Those people were wrong.  This week, investors have received a very rude wake up call.  Stock prices are plunging, commodity prices are going completely nuts, and a very thick cloud of fear has descended upon Wall Street.  The fact that this war has permanently changed economic and financial conditions is starting to sink in, and it is likely that the level of panic will continue to rise in the days ahead. (Read More...)

By the end of 2022, we are going to witness very serious shortages of food in many parts of the globe.  In fact, World Bank President David Malpass is openly admitting that we are now facing “a huge supply shock” as a result of the war in Ukraine.  Of course we were already moving into a global food crisis even before the war erupted.  According to the UN, worldwide food prices in February 2022 were 20.7 percent higher than they were in February 2021, fertilizer prices have gone absolutely nuts, crop production is down all over the planet due to crazy weather patterns, and supply chain problems caused by the pandemic continue to create ongoing headaches.  But now World War 3 has erupted, and that is going to push this rapidly growing global food crisis to a level that none of us have ever seen before. (Read More...)

44 million people live in Ukraine, and they are deeply suffering in a war that most of them did not want.  Like most of us, the vast majority of Ukrainians just want to live their lives in peace and quiet, but that isn’t going to be possible now.  So we should pray for the people of Ukraine, because they are going through a type of hell that is beyond what most of us even have the ability to imagine.  And we should be very angry with all of those that caused this war, because it didn’t have to happen. (Read More...)

Why can’t major news outlets at least try to be objective?  On the Russians side, we are getting a steady stream of pro-Russian propaganda, and that is to be expected.  But I am particularly disappointed in the mainstream media in the western world.  We have been told story after story of Ukrainian victory, but most of the videos and photos that they are using end up being fakes that were given to them by the Ukrainians.  The biggest fraud of all was the story of “the ghost of Kiev”.  Congressman Adam Kinzinger even tweeted about him.  But it turns out that it was all a giant hoax.  News organizations are supposed to try to verify stories before they run with them, but way too many times that simply isn’t happening. (Read More...)

All of a sudden, there is a lot of talk in the mainstream media about establishing a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine, and that should deeply alarm all of us.  Because establishing a “no-fly zone” over Ukraine would require us to shoot at Russians, and they would inevitably start shooting back.  In other words, we would be at war with Russia.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thinks that this is a wonderful idea, because he knows that western intervention is the only thing that is going to save his country at this point.  But Vladimir Putin has already warned that he is willing to use nuclear weapons against anyone that intervenes in the conflict.  Should we take that threat seriously? (Read More...)