Doug Casey sees nothing but trouble ahead. From Casey at internationalman.com:
“Making the chicken run” is what Rhodesians used to say about neighbors who packed up and got out during the ’60s and ’70s, before the place became Zimbabwe. It was considered “unpatriotic” to leave Rhodesia. But it was genuinely idiotic not to.
I’ve written many times about the importance of internationalizing your assets, your mode of living, and your way of thinking. I suspect most readers have treated those articles as they might a travelogue to some distant and exotic land: interesting fodder for cocktail party chatter, but basically academic and of little immediate personal relevance.
I’m directing these comments toward the U.S. mainly because that’s where the problem is most acute, but they’re applicable to most countries.
Now, in 2023, the U.S. is in real trouble. Not as bad as Rhodesia 50 years ago—and definitely a different kind of trouble—but plenty serious. For many years, it’s been obvious that the country was eventually going to hit the wall, and now the inevitable is rapidly becoming imminent.
What do I mean by that? There’s plenty of reason to be concerned about things financial and economic. But I personally believe we haven’t been bearish enough on the eventual social and political fallout from the Greater Depression. Nothing is certain, but the odds are high that the U.S. is going into a time of troubles at least as bad as any experienced in any advanced country in the last century.
Rhidesians had places to flee to: western places, where they’d look mostly like the locals and would be accepted.
White Americans have no such place to run to. Do you honestly believe you and your wealth are safe in whatever SA country you’ve built your bolt-hole in, surrounded by and serviced by locals jealous of your wealth and suspicious of Americans and all that America has done to Latin America?
Are you really that stupid?