China invades Taiwan if things get bad in Europe, or if Russia wins in Ukraine.
China is not presently able to invade Taiwan.
Shanghai is totally locked down. Bejing lockdown in under consideration.
Covid is presently controlling China.
“I think that in four years we are going to be in a real war—a world war—against Russia and China. It will have been entirely unnecessary and avoidable, just like the first and second world wars. And it will be much worse than we imagine, because it is going to be fought with worse-than-nuclear weapons. We will face biological weapons, diseases that kill nine out of every 10 people they infect, rather than one in a 100,000. You’ll carry the disease around for two weeks without knowing, and two weeks later you’ll be dead. Two weeks after that, everyone you talked to will be dead. That’s the sort of thing that will happen in the next world war: After we lose our power and our internet and after the food supply-chain has been destroyed—after all that, expect bioweapons of horror-film-level malignancy.
If you don’t want a world war—well, I frankly don’t know if we can still prevent it. But if you’d like to be helpful, I can only suggest the following: Stop waving another nation’s flag on Facebook like a thoughtless idiot.”
And people here, and all around, just brush it off. “Can’t happen! Support Ukraine, you Putinista!” is what we hear.
Oh well. I’m stocking up on durable foods and ammo. Soon, coins and dollar bills.