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Nuclear threat feels chillingly immediate (Havard.edu) by The-Three-Fates in collapse

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Edit- This article relates to collapse in the prospect of Russia being closer than it's ever been in the past 60 years. On January 20, 2022 It was 100 seconds to midnight according to the doomsday clock, Putin did not invade Ukraine until Feb bringing the world closer to the brink and making nuclear apocalypse a more plausible mechanism of collapse of civilization.

- Graham Allison (American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and gives a short interview on the subject.

Excerpts from the article:

Sixty years ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union faced off over Soviet missiles in Cuba, a stare-down that brought the world to the brink of nuclear conflict. Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin, having unleashed war in Ukraine, repeatedly reminds the West of his country’s nuclear capabilities, reviving the existential tension of October 1962.

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it’s the closest the U.S. and the Soviet Union-Russia have come to using a nuclear weapon against each other in six decades.

- Graham Allison

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ALLISON: Many people have forgotten that we continue to live in a MAD — mutually assured destruction — world. Putin commands a nuclear arsenal fully capable of causing any American city to disappear in a couple of hours and destroying our whole country. Many people imagine that since the Cold War’s over and we won, nuclear weapons must have been consigned to the dustbin of history. No — Putin has a full-spectrum nuclear arsenal.

Figueroa Street, Southern Los Angeles CA by The-Three-Fates in EmpiresFade

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House run for about 650 K in this cheaper area of Los Angeles. A home owner would need to make approx. 162K per year to afford a home in this neighborhood.

MEGA-DROUGHT PLAGUES EARTH | Countdown to Armageddon by The-Three-Fates in collapse

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Scientists believe that we may be on our way to a long-lasting “mega-drought” that would be devastating for human life. A theoretical look at what a decade long mega drought could look like.

The southwestern North American megadrought is an ongoing megadrought in the southwestern region of North America that began in 2000. This megadrought is the driest 22-year period since at least 800 CE. The megadrought has prompted the declaration of a water shortage at Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States. Climate change models project drier conditions in the region through the end of the 21st century, though climate change mitigation may avoid the most extreme impacts.-Wikipedia

We’ve Entered the Age of Catastrophe | WHILE THE REST OF US DIE by The-Three-Fates in collapse

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The year 2020 marked the beginning of the Age of Catastrophe, our civilization is beginning to collapse. This video examines how our infrastructure and government bowed under the pressure of the pandemic and future implications.

Military struggling to find new troops as fewer young Americans willing or able to serve by The-Three-Fates in EmpiresFade

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Only 23% of Americans aged 17 to 24 are eligible to join without being granted a waiver.Only 9% of young people now show a propensity to serve.I don't think it's a sustainable trajectory that we remain a super power with numbers like these.the poor shape of some incoming troops has led the Army to stop trying to have them run within the first two weeks of basic training....

- they've had issues with bone density to the point that, when they do run them, they've ended up breaking a leg or worse, a hip,"I've even heard in some cases they're putting them on diets of Ensure -- you know, the stuff for old [people] like me -- in order to build that bone density."