Exceptionalism. This has only gotten worse in the last decade. Putin's letter is mostly focused on Syria, which was the big important thing back then. See, people overlooked Saddam and Gaddafi in ways they didn't overlook Syria. People other than the USA had reasons to get those other two out of the way. But Syria? Syria is one of the most important strategical countries in the Middle East. It was seen as important in ways that Iraq and Libya weren't. Syria was BIG. Big enough for Putin himself to pen an open letter to the US people. And what has happened in the last 10 years? We purposely funded terrorist groups because they were the 'good terrorist groups' that instead ended up being the 'bad terrorist group' ISIL, among other unsavory characters, like we did with Osama Bin Laden. Did I just give away the ending? Yes and no. There's been way more terrorist attacks, but nothing that has matched 9/11 or even the Oklahoma building bombing. Instead, we had modern day Mongols raiding across the middle east on the back of Toyota based technicals. It's almost like that money got turned into Humvees and .50 machine guns to be dropped in the desert or something. Did these guys rob every Toyota dealership in the Middle East or what? Where the hell does ISIL of all people get a steady stream of brand new Toyota trucks? This has never been properly answered and probably never will be. But that fell apart. The head choppers got hunted down by other hired head choppers and everyone lived happily ever after until it all collapsed and we were ran out of Afghanistan and assaults started against our bases in Iraq. But wait, there's more! Someone suddenly decided they should say that the Ukraine conflict, ongoing since 2014, had really 'started' in 2021 and a renewed flood of money and weapons has been sent to...Ukrainian Nazis. Not movie Nazis like in American History X or Inglorious Bastards. Full on, descended from WW2, heiled Hitler, got shot at by my grandfather, German Nazis, Nazis. The most Nazi Nazis you can Nazi. These guys make American Neo-Nazis look like a bad punk rock band. They're possibly worse than the head choppers, but I'd have to flip a coin on that. This funding of Ukrainian Nazis has led to attacks on the Crimea bridge and a fake civil war in Russia that was used as cover to move 25k Wager forces to a more strategical location 'should something happen'. I called that when it happened and Putin confirmed that's what they did about a month later. We know things will still escalate at this point since we're sending heavy equipment in there with money we don't have. It's still only getting started if it indeed leads to full scale world war. It's still just proxy war level stuff now, even though it's internationally funded, like Korea and Vietnam.

Drugs and drugs masquerading as medicine. The thought that drug users or crackheads, as I commonly refer to them, are being allowed to roam free in parts of the country is beyond stupid to me. I live in Eastern Kentucky. Do you know what Eastern Kentucky is known for? You won the game if you said 'crackheads'. Or 'junkies'. Or 'pillheads'. Or 'methheads'. Or the Suboxon, Gabapentine, etc heads. There's so many drugs messing people up it's just easier to label them all 'crackheads'. They obviously don't give a damn, so neither do I. Drug use isn't a 'sickness'. They're junkies and no one ever let them starve until they figured out they should clean up and get a job while enabled by gullible people who think scripts aren't drugs and therefore junkism is a 'sickness'. It's no more a sickness than wanting to get high or being too lazy to deal with life are sicknesses, which is to say it's a willful choice, much like picking up a gun and shooting someone. You know why the millions being pumped into the 'homeless' situation in SF isn't working? Because you can't enable people to get off their asses. Also, because they're not 'homeless' at this point. They're junkie tourists looking for free handouts and a place to get high (like that woman recently who was so bonked out of her head she didn't hear a tractor with a bush hog and won a Darwin Award Runner Up prize, but not the real prize, because she managed to have a kid to abandon for drugs), which is why HALF of all the USA's 'homeless' are in California where they allow them, give them drugs, and let them to shit in the street without being starved out. This behavior is pure insanity. Society cannot support such behavior. Which is exactly why California is collapsing like a crack den. However, others are, too. Drugs are also fueling other crimes like robberies, murders, and mass shooters. Just like with the Covid vaccines, doctors lied to patients about the side effects. Or didn't even take the time to look into them themselves. Or they're actively pushing the drug for pharmco execs. Justice, real justice, justice straight from the Universe or 'God' if you prefer, is every doctor who died from the Covid vaccine after lying about them and pushing them on patients, some of which died or had family members, bread winners, that died. Janky, untested 'vaccines' were simply another untested drug that was pushed for money, like Ivermectin (which is also killing people by causing edema) and nearly everything else you've see advertised in the last decade. There's reasons why most these things get pulled after they're 'approved': they're not actually tested until given to the public who is being tested on. If they had been tested, 4,500 drugs and devices PER YEAR would not be recalled by the FDA. And did anyone actually manage to count how many Covid vaccines just got pulled in the last year? How about ALL of them and the Covid vaccines now are a whole new, untested concoction. Some of these things, like the Covid vaccines, haven't even been tested on animals, which takes years itself. How many kids were killed by janky Polio vaccines in the 1960s? You won if you said '50,000', which is probably on par with how many the Covid vaccines have killed if you adjust for the current population level. How arrogant can you be to give humans something not even tested on animals? How arrogant can you be to give people something that you literally just cooked up with a computer program? US life expectancy had already been falling for three years before the pandemic due to obesity and drug use, but it's straight up tanking now. It's probably time for all politicians to release their script lists when they start to run for for office and to be drug tested for EVERYTHING. There's no way in hell some of these people like Kamala Harris and AOC aren't on something, because four years in the medical field and dealing with junkies your whole life gives you insight. But you don't need insight, because rambling gibberish, no focus, and bug eyes are dead giveaways. Those two, along with a good part of everyone else, are high AF and that's all they are. FYI, anyone that knows anything knows when you're high in public, regardless of what you think about that. You can't actually hide the effects of these drugs from anyone who's paying attention. The most recent untested drugs that have made it to the general population are Ozempic and Wegovy, which both use the same synthetic hormone semaglutide, and are now causing stomach paralysis. Because who would of thought it was a bad idea to take large amounts of the hormone that slows the digestion of food? Anyone who isn't high off other meds or made incredibly naive and gullible from the internet, that's who. I won't even get into the 100k+ who have been ODing yearly for the last few years straight or the fact that most mass shooters are very clearly on drugs, scripts actually, and we've had confirmation of that multiple times, or get into the fact that Ritalin and Adderall are legal meth and 'make the best meth' according to methheads I've talked to on the subject. Have you ever talked to a methhead about meth? Probably not. And I mean real talking, not that bullshit where you pretend to care they're ruining their lives. Screw their lives. Society is at stake. Something far bigger than them or anyone born is at stake. None of us matter in the annals of history if society falls. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few and the many, society, needs less junkies.

Debt. I just seen an article around when I started writing this essay that talked about how 52 of the World's countries are about to default on their debt. There's 195 'countries' in the world today as long as I don't get all technical about the small places. That means that 26.7% of the countries in the world right now are about to go into default. This isn't a 'recession'. This isn't a 'depression'. We are looking at a potential, worldwide economic collapse that would make people wish it was only a 'depression'. This is the thing they say must not happen in the USA. Except, it also can't be happening anywhere else. Do people honestly believe that more than a quarter of the world's economies defaulting won't hurt them, even if it's not their economy that falls? And what do we see? What we see is yet more debt being racked up and yet more people wanting free stuff and yet more people not wanting to work. We see a lot of people trying to double down on what's failing, like an alcoholic that starts drinking more in secret when called out and the truth is put before them. Ostriches don't really hide their heads in the sand and pretend things don't exist. But people? People do. You have to think mighty highly of things, or not be thinking at all, if you think that debt does not matter. That is a defense mechanism being demonstrated by people who are so far in debt their grand kids couldn't pay it off. You have to think that you're somehow special to think debt doesn't matter. Like the people that came before you were complete morons that couldn't keep a sentence together. Guess what? Even the British Empire, the empire that controlled 90% of the world at one point, fell and is nothing more than a few islands now that are going deeper and deeper into debt with no way out as they cling to world ambitions by sending money and arms to Ukrainian Nazis. That is the cost of holding onto arrogance and not humbling yourself. It's basically a form of Gambler's Ruin. The USA, along with others now and before us and no doubt after us, are are betting over and over again that we can make/create the money to keep the system going, but at some point it all crashes. Why? Because we're playing a negative sum game. It's the same game you play when you pay only the minimum on a credit card: you merely push failure to an unknown point in the future because you're constantly losing ground overall, and because you've interfered with the system, you lose the ability to accurately predict the point of collapse to prepare for or prevent it. *long, slow golfers clap* You muddy the water to make yourself appear smart, but lose sight of all indicators that would tell you what is actually going on. Put simply, you screw yourself. That is the USA right now, along with 52+ other countries in the world. All we know right now is that the current situation is going to fail, and judging from how fast things are moving due to the interactions created by the internet, bets should be on sooner than on later.

Crime rate. I'm not even sure where to start with this except to refer back to drugs and to point out that you can't enable people to be homeless junkies and expect them to be upstanding citizens at the same time. The two things do not go together. A lot of free money was also given out over the last few years and people got it in their heads that they should have free stuff. When they don't get the free stuff they erroneously think they deserve, they rob places, and this is leading to stores and chains shutting down and moving stores out of certain areas. We also have criminals being let loose and repeat offenders are causing mayhem in some places, driving out yet more people. It's not even the Wild West. They shot and hung people in the Wild West. This is Idiocracy: Prison Life. What exactly do the enablers of these people think is going to happen when the junkie losers robbing everything are the only people they have left? Are they going to then blame everyone that had the sense to leave? Probably, like the police are suddenly to blame for what's happening in some of the places the defunded police. Like no one told them how that was going to work out. And what's with the pedos in the schools? Have people forgot that sex books aren't for kids, no matter how they're presented, and that adults walking around naked in front of kids is sick shit? Some clearly have, and I'm real curious about what their script list looks like. These things are merely adding to the unspoken crime rate that has increased exponentially as certain people actively try to cause the destruction of society. The before mentioned defund the police movements in some places have indeed added to this crime rate, and many of those places are now frantically trying to hire back the officers they only just ran off, most of which, rightly, want nothing to do with them. On top of pulling the barriers to crime back, the enablers have also successfully passed many laws that let criminals get out very easily or not even go to jail. They have clearly forgotten that the vast majority of people arrested are repeat offenders. Police literally spend most their time rounding up the same people over and over and those people are literally the dregs of society. Parasites. They exist only because other people are arrogant enough to allow them to exist under the false idea that these people can be enabled out of the hole they put themselves in. They pretend all the people making SF, LA, Seattle, NY, and other places crash aren't pure junkie losers being supported by junkies with jobs. Drugs is causing nearly 100% of it, most of it scripts from doctors. They all voted for the destruction of their cities by voting to enable junkies and losers that didn't contribute to that city, and they got what they voted for. None of those people can try to claim the voting system doesn't work. A lot of people are going to starve in LA, Seattle, SF, and other places before it's done crashing, and if they try to leave and steal from other places, they'll simply get shot. They're about to be a bunch of rats in a cage with nowhere to go, and things are degrading very fast. Matter of fact, the current situation in SF and other places point to a military cleanup of some sort before it's over. People like to say SF is becoming Detroit, but last time I looked, they weren't openly shitting on the streets in Detroit and steeling $100k+ of goods at a time. What's going on in SF is automatic weapon level response stuff since it's an open attack on society by barbarians. And they are barbarians, and the argument could be made they're worse, since actual barbarians didn't sit around getting high and stealing while wallowing in their own feces. No one would have an issue with calling the thieves in SF animals if they couldn't speak.

Education. This is a dismal subject. Even more dismal than idiots starving and/or getting shot in SF. Nearly every developed country in the world has overtaken the USA in education while we let dudes in dresses beat up on girls and woman and set women's rights back 100 years while other drugged up mental health cases pretend they have a ding dong. Oh, and the bathroom stupidity. And the 'math is racist' stupidity. It's like this. That's a bunch of arrogant bullshit thinking. That's what you do to fail. Failing is ALL you can do when entertaining such ignorance, because the world doesn't give two damns about what you think. And if you put what you think over reality and what keeps you alive, then you're as doomed as SF and Seattle. The Muslim world was once the most advanced culture on the planet. Then those old Empires fell and their subjects went out burning observatories because they 'caused the plague'. This is literally nothing new. It's simply happening now on an historic scale and nearly at light speed, since that's how fast electronic transmissions travel. And like the Muslims, the USA, and anyone else that follows suit, will be reduced to whatever you want to call a bunch of tribes stuck together into a country. Because that's not really a country, it's just a bunch of territories that aren't strong enough to stand on their own and that no one else wants. And without education, that's where you end up. The Far Left and anyone else against actual education barely rank as barbarians. They're more like society Langoliers. They're what you'd get if you gave ISIL meth and let them run wild. Literally, since Adderall and Ritalin are synthetic meth.

War and news of war. And this is actually more the latter than the former. As I've touched on elsewhere, the Ukrainian war is a Nazi money laundering scheme with zero signs of a war. There's no piles of bodies. There's no carrion eaters circling. There's no bombed out cities. There's no mass troop movements. They're selling trinkets and souvenirs to fund it. Everyone is treating the 'war' as a carnival in the news. It's a joke. It's clearly a money laundering scheme or some such nonsense. However, if so, why did we just indicate our willingness to go nuclear by testing an unarmed Minuteman III missile in the first week of September? Why would a bunch of Ukrainian Nazis being handed our Social Security money rank a nuclear response? The only real guess is that the situation is FAR worse than we think. How so, it's impossible to say. My guess would be corruption or we're going broke faster than anyone says. If for either reason, an answer to 'why' becomes more clear: the aged and senile politicians that have been in office for decades screwed us way more than we think. They would almost certainly not want to pass the torch and let us find out what they were up to for the last 20-40 years. We can almost certainly bet on this. But is it enough to push nuclear war with Russia (and China since they have a treaty)? Well, it looks like it. And we'll know for sure in a couple more years.

These are just some of the things caused by the arrogance and exceptionalism we have allowed to creep into our country. The grand lie that was EVs that has cost companies tens of billions and wasted untold amounts of time and energy, and will help contribute to a massive used car shortage in a few years (along with companies pandering to rich people with stuff like the Hellcat), is another example of it. The grand lie that we can let corporations that only care about money care about people is another example. The grand lie that doctor scripts aren't drugs and that drugs can be used to cure drugs is another. These things are absurd. They border on insanity. These things are what happens when corporations try to fleece people for money to increase their stock price and CEO bonuses. The AI 'revolution' is the same thing. These programs are literally automated copy paste IP theft programs that are being sold as 'AI' and will end up being the biggest fraud and company destroying idea since EVs. Is there someone somewhere that is actively trying to come out with ideas that will kill companies if they buy into them? Because it seems like there is. Or perhaps the world is just like it's always been: full of conmen? But this time the conmen have billions and the power of the internet behind them that's connected to a bunch of gullible suckers. Occam's Razor would say 'conmen', so that's what I'll go with. Because when someone tries to claim that a car literally made out of petroleum products is 'carbon and oil free', what are they but a conman? When someone claims that a computer program that copy pastes words that it doesn't understand is going to replace human writers, what are they but a conman? The internet has made people very gullible and naive, or maybe people have always been this gullible, but never had the chance to act on it to such a degree? Maybe people are only this gullible because they're arrogant? There's gullible and not thinking something can happen out of naivety, but then there's gullibility and thinking nothing can happen because you're just so important. Sorta like Stockton Rush of OceanGate. No one with any real knowledge of how the Titan was built would ever have gone down in it, but he did, multiple times. He was so arrogant that he thought he was stronger than 5,800 psi of pressure 2.5 miles under the ocean. Which is some serious hubris. That's the kind of hubris that makes you think that the lessons of history aren't important to you. That's the kind of hubris the USA and others in the world have shown.

We can't forget that these issues aren't limited to the USA and they're not recent. These were issues when I first wrote United State of Arrogance in Sept of 2013. All they've done since is become more pronounced and spread farther across the world as people buy into 'Western culture', aka, spending money they don't have and have no chance of ever making. Sorta like the pedos. A decade ago, we had 'To Catch a Predator'. Now, the predators have spread and are dancing naked in streets in front of kids. However, all this has peaked. As I say, 'bandwagons come to Kentucky to die'. You can tell an idea has peaked when it has come to this little backwater place that no one cares about, because the only reason for it to come here is to die. There's nothing here but some mountains, people that work, and methheads. Go ahead, try to maintain momentum against that. We're only ~400 miles from DC (as the bird flies and depending on your start location) but it may as well be 5,000. By the time anything has made it here, it's peaked and people are sick of it. EVs, dudes in dresses, Crypto, whatever it is. And you can tell it's peaked due to the pushback. Whether or not the pushback will be enough to save society, and literally the world if it prevents WW3, is yet to be seen and could possibly take up to another decade. However, I don't believe that what we're seeing will take a decade to play out. Having a decade of stability at our current rate of degradation is an overly optimistic position. It's more than likely that we'll have a serious upset within five years. This is because we have to account for the ever present gremlin in the room: government misinformation. The type of misinformation that they spread about Covid vaccines, Ukrainian Nazis, and head choppers. Because if the government wasn't lying to people about something, they wouldn't be operating, and there's a whole lot of lies now that we're 23 years past our estimated peak in 2000. It takes a while for it to even be noticeable to most people and by the time it's obvious to most people, it's well advanced. We also have the blessing and curse of the internet affecting things. Communication is a double edged sword. It makes cooperation easier for both good and bad. It also causes mental illness, which is on the rise and partly to blame on the internet (the other main cause is drugs to the tune of 70% of dementia in people 65+ and nearly all the world's schizophrenia). The elephant in the room that people overlook when it comes to the Rat Utopia experiments is that the rat society didn't fail due to overpopulation. It failed due to too much social pressure and too many social interactions. This is a very related, but highly important difference, that too few people are aware of. In short, protect your social sphere. Do not let just anyone into it and do not entertain anyone 'to be nice'. Literally, your mental health and society depends on it.

Now, to backtrack some. This essay is being dropped on the 10th anniversary of my first political essay for a reason. It's a reevaluation of where things have gone. There is nothing good in any of this. We ARE going broke. The political division is leading the country down a dark path. We have a massive military and too many drugged up people with guns. The only question is, what are we doing about it? My other essays have started turning away from the political landscape, which was where 90% of my political statements have been confined to, besides a (terribly) dark joke or two. Or three. Or four. You get the point. I've considered making this my last political essay for a while since I've thought about how I feel about this 10th anniversary for three months leading up to it. And...I'm pretty sure I've decided there is no hope for the USA. Not completely, but as it currently stands. The only thing that's going to break the deadlock is someone who can pull the country together with votes or a massive collapse. It's unlikely that anyone under the corrupt Dem or Rep banner can pull the country together and bring the fiscal situation under control due to the fake info pushed, especially over the pandemic. So we're almost certainly looking at a massive collapse at some unknown point in the future, but sooner than we think, because the government is hiding information like always. So, what do you do when you realize this? Do you just stay the course? Do you change course? If so, how? Survival doesn't belong to the strongest. It goes to the most adaptable. It goes to the thing most willing and able to make changes in their existence. And right now, many, many people are sticking to what will end their existence short like drug and alcohol use along with the consumption of poisoned food that is nearly as bad as drugs and alcohol. These things cause mental illness. Mental illness that is causing shootings and all the shootings are from the extreme ends of society where drug use and poor food choices are most prevalent. Left, Right, doesn't matter, it's always an extremist with the gun. The 'veteran and sovereign citizen' who was being evicted on debate day was just the icing on the cake and a perfect example of the decay of society. Sovereign citizens, if you don't know, are Far Right. They're the people that wanted to shoot people over lockdowns a couple years back. My stance is armed neutrality. What does that mean? It means that if you two idiots want to fight and also want to fight me, I'll let you fight each other first, then mop up the winner, because screw you both. If things keep deteriorating, this is what will happen between the Far Sides, at best. At worst, one Far Side gets the upper hand and we have concentration camps again. And if this happens, are we locking them up, shooting them, or just being all random about it? We need to decide. Biden getting in gets Far Right idiots shot and locked up. Trump getting in gets Far Left idiots shot and locked up. Not counting any collateral damage. The 2024 election is the first election in USA history in which the Supreme Court needs to bar the two main runners due to either winning bringing harm to society. THAT is the situation we are currently in. And it's a very pathetic situation. It's the type of situation that makes you want to put a grave marker with RIP USA on it. The only chance of turning things around at this point is to elect ANYONE but Trump or Biden or 2024. Trump and Biden only continue to speed up the downfall of the USA and everyone shot and locked up over it has them to thank. The Jan 6th rioters can thank Trump for their sentences and the thousands of Far Left protesters that got sentences can thank Biden and others. A cult is a cult is a cult and they're cult leaders. Matter of fact, their cult members even admit this when they say stuff like 'he's leading a movement'. Well, that's nice, but we need a 'movement' in spending that doesn't let SS and Medicare go broke in 2032, because whoever is voted in in 2028 is going to be in deep shit and that shit will be deeper the more we entertain corrupt cult leaders.

Based on all that, my long-term advice for the next 3+ years is as follows: Make sure you own a house and get it paid off ASAP. Put a fence around it that is at least strong enough to stop a small car or the biggest fence your local rules allow. Make sure you have weapons, know how to use them, and I don't just mean 'guns', there's something to be said for silence and lack of collateral damage. Change whatever you need to change in your life to get off all the drugs you can get off of. Get fruit plants of all types going and produce as much of your own fresh fruit as possible. Get a garden going. Get a source of protein like chickens going. Get out of debt altogether. Have at least one backup vehicle, preferably old and with few computers, and learn how to do semi-major repairs to it short of pulling the engine or transmission. Find people to trade your extra food goods to for stuff you can't produce yourself. Find something to invest in that isn't stock market, crypto, or property related. Then sit tight, save, enjoy life, fix popcorn, and watch what is going to be the greatest show on Earth as the greatest country in history (so far) implodes (or not).

Putin's Letter: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/opinion/putin-plea-for-caution-from-russia-on-syria.html