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PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES
The Intercept ^ | October 13 2016, 10:53 a.m. | Nick Turse

Posted on 07/02/2023 4:04:10 AM PDT by RaceBannon

PENTAGON VIDEO WARNS OF “UNAVOIDABLE” DYSTOPIAN FUTURE FOR WORLD’S BIGGEST CITIES The video, used by the Joint Special Operations University, states that megacities will be breeding grounds for "adversaries and hybrid threats," and that the U.S. Army is unprepared.


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THE YEAR IS 2030. Forget about the flying cars, robot maids, and moving sidewalks we were promised. They’re not happening. But that doesn’t mean the future is a total unknown.

According to a startling Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept, the future of global cities will be an amalgam of the settings of “Escape from New York” and “Robocop” — with dashes of the “Warriors” and “Divergent” thrown in. It will be a world of Robert Kaplan-esque urban hellscapes — brutal and anarchic supercities filled with gangs of youth-gone-wild, a restive underclass, criminal syndicates, and bands of malicious hackers.

At least that’s the scenario outlined in “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” a five-minute video that has been used at the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations University. All that stands between the coming chaos and the good people of Lagos and Dhaka (or maybe even New York City) is the U.S. Army, according to the video, which The Intercept obtained via the Freedom of Information Act.

1 posted on 07/02/2023 4:04:10 AM PDT by RaceBannon
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To: RaceBannon

All by design.

The billionaire globalist depopulationist psychopaths want us dead.

We should make them dead first.


2 posted on 07/02/2023 4:05:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: RaceBannon

We can avoid that by having 15 minute cities.


3 posted on 07/02/2023 4:05:41 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: RaceBannon

video link
https://player.vimeo.com/video/187093104


4 posted on 07/02/2023 4:06:46 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: RaceBannon

The importation of the problem into the USA is going very well.


5 posted on 07/02/2023 4:07:07 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: RaceBannon
Cities wouldn't be a problem if they were run like cities instead of Leftist hothouses.

Good laws and tight policing would clean up a lot of problems and most citizens would be pleased with the result.

That said, the military probably is thinking that cities will be strongholds for white supremacist militias instead of drug-dealing ghetto thugs and pride parades.

6 posted on 07/02/2023 4:20:31 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: RaceBannon

Our previously secure border protected US but it was deemed unfair by our political BETTERS.


7 posted on 07/02/2023 4:20:39 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I put this in front page news, they shadowban here...

not a joke, many things that are just out the day I post them are taken off the front age news

this one was today


8 posted on 07/02/2023 4:21:53 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: RaceBannon

“...avoid the cities...”

Good advise not only for the military but the individual as well.


9 posted on 07/02/2023 4:28:36 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: RaceBannon

This video is old (ca. 2015).

It is available on yoo toob.

The Intercept is just *now* getting a copy? and they had to use FOIA?


10 posted on 07/02/2023 4:30:10 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: RoosterRedux

> Good laws and tight policing would clean up a lot of problems and most citizens would be pleased with the result. <

I would add good jobs to the list. Trump was almost alone among politicians in that he wanted to bring industry back to America. That would have helped the cities so much!

But neither the Democrats nor the GOPe were interested in that. So here we are.


11 posted on 07/02/2023 4:37:53 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: RoosterRedux

lets be honest here, cities are a mess because of white flight.

Whites left, and blacks took over and elected Democrats which led to everything else.


12 posted on 07/02/2023 4:37:54 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RaceBannon

Maybe they should have thought of this before allowing MILLIONS of unknown, unvetted, unemployed, military aged males from 3rd world narco, terrorist or enemy states to enter the country. People who have no allegiance to the U.S., no appreciation for our history, culture, or norms, and who believe that large areas of the U.S. were stolen from their home country. People who the Left will easily be able to convince are victims of discrimination, racism, etc. There is no better recipe for creating division, violence and chaos.


13 posted on 07/02/2023 4:46:57 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: sauropod

yeah, I missed that


14 posted on 07/02/2023 4:49:27 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: sauropod

also, the article being dated 2016, this goes along with the 15 minute city idea


15 posted on 07/02/2023 4:50:06 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Ever heard of black flight? Look it up.


16 posted on 07/02/2023 4:55:10 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: RaceBannon

Shades of “Blade Runner”.


17 posted on 07/02/2023 5:01:03 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: RaceBannon

No worries. I can tell you abt this offline.


18 posted on 07/02/2023 5:02:21 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Ge0ffrey

I have heard of black flight. They are usually carrying unpaid Jordan shoes.


19 posted on 07/02/2023 5:03:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (If liberals were truth tellers, they'd call themselves literals. )
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To: RoosterRedux

“Cities wouldn’t be a problem if they were run like cities instead of Leftist hothouses.”

Cities in the Western world as we know them today began in earnest about the time of the industrial revolution. Workers escaped from the farms where they were serfs and moved to the cities where they had comparative freedom. The cities protected them even though the landowners had property rights on some of those people. The cities became a ready labor pool and that attracted industry, which attracted more labor. Along about the 1950’s cities like Detroit attracted a class of carpetbagger politician who attached itself to the body politic like a leach. As the cities transitioned to be about taxes to support politics the industry moved to better climes and the labor followed. The cities became hollow constructs peopled by those who benefited from politics rather than jobs. Once the downward spiral began it spelled the end of cities. Modern technology like working from home out in Maine backwoods provided the final nail in the coffin. It would be possible to revive the cities somewhat, but as other posters pointed out, it would require rock-hard policing and tough policies that would not be popular with the great bought-off class.


20 posted on 07/02/2023 5:09:28 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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