The Collapse Has Already Started

“Seizing the Mid-Collapse Moment” is an illuminating video (shared by Don Truax at The Ominous Parallels) by Dmitry Orlov, an IT engineer who emigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union at age 12.

Orlov is best known for his “Post Soviet Lessons for a Post American Century” published on Michael Ruppert’s Voices From the Wilderness website in 2005. Orlov has also written a book The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors’ Toolkit and blogs at Club Orlov

He argues that there are distinct parallels between the collapse of the American empire and the collapse of the Soviet empire. The US faces a crisis in accessing non-renewable resources (i.e. oil), just as the USSR did in the 1980s. The Soviet collapse was hastened by a rampant militarism that bankrupted the economy. Sound familiar?

The US economic crisis is an early symptom of a collapsing empire. In other words, there will be  no recovery.

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