@Laura for a while now I had a feeling that the real virus, the one behind the curtain, has used its host, the US, to the max, it sucked out of it everything that it could, and now it is ready to abandon it and move on to a new host, I am thinking China. I kept thinking that Trump was pushed forward by a more nationalist faction to try and salvage what he can, much like Gorbachev did in the times of Perestroika. When any of these giants collapse, it is usually not pretty. Look at Russia in early 90s. And they planned the collapse for a minimum of 10 years, since the time of Andropov. And if this is the case, it means that the US $ will collapse as a fiat currency, which will also collapse a lot of other economies. As China and Russia (and other states) were building their Gold reserves for a while now, they knew this was coming. So we are to expect a new financial paradigm, to replace the Breton Woods / OPEC supported petro-dollar with something new. Then probably we will have some period of stabilization. This is how I see it. I think by now we all know that what we're witnessing is a show, in which, to be clear, a lot of innocent people
are dying, but the show is directing everybody's attention from what is really going on. We should probably start talking more about what we think will happen next as I think we have a great advantage in this global community of ours, once we start collaborating we can hopefully map out part of the puzzle and maybe even match some of the pieces in it.
Your thought that the US $ will collapse soon fits with an idea that I've been acquainted with for a few years - the question of the '40-year cycle of economics' theory. Are you familiar?
Working backwards from today (2020), where some sort of economic collapse seems imminent, we can trace a roughly regular 40-year major meltdown:
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1971, abandonment of Bretton Woods, unlinking the US $ from the gold standard, making the economy
not tied to anything real
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1930's, the Great Depression, one that most are familiar with
-the Panic of 1893 under US President McKinley, another depression, closure of banks, mass unemployment, failing of businesses
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the Panic of 1857, a financial panic in the US caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic. This was the first worldwide economic crisis.
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The panic of 1819 was the first major peacetime financial crisis in the US. General collapse of the American economy that heralded the transition of the nation from its colonial status with Europe to an independent economy.
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In 1776, the Declaration of Independence, which began this 40-year crash cycle
So, the way I see it, there is 'a certain something' integral to America that must FEED every 40 years. A body - I would even suggest that
any body - requires some form of regular renewal, or it will die. It makes one question - what IS America?
Metaphors abound:
-28 year cycles of 'Saturn return'
-a war machine's gas tank that needs to be refuelled at regular intervals
-a healthy forest that reaches a tipping point, such as the build up of underbrush, and then undergoes a collapse event - a wildfire that burns the latent material, releases it to the soil, and growth begins again
-a global mental parasite requires the food of human suffering every 40 years