By Mike Smith
23rd of August 2016
Yesterday the German government announced an official strategy of “Civil Protection” (Zivilschutz) in a 69 page document and warned their people to stock up on two liters of water per person for 5 days and food for ten days in case of a worst case scenario, massive terrorist attacks, war, whatever...in general, a “national emergency”.
German version: German Government warns its citizens to stock up for the Apocalypse
BBC: Germans told to stockpile food and water for Civil Defence
Immediately followed the head-shaking leftist, making the strategy off as alarmist “Panic Makery” (Panikmache) and irresponsible of the government.
The leftist debate about hamster buying and panic-makery
In my opinion, live by this rule of thumb: “Whatever the left says is bullshit and should be discarded”.
However when you speak to the Germans they make jokes about the warning saying their fridges are full of beer and the meat is stil grazing in the field, so they are sorted.
So this would be my strategy: You don’t need to stock up on food and water. You just need to make a list of all those leftists who laughed and find out where they keep their food and water. When the shit hits the fan; that is where you go.
No seriously, it is always a good idea to be prepared. Have a “bug-out” rucksack packed for three days. Have some ammunition and fuel and think of worst case scenarios, because it is not just about a civil war or nuclear war situation; You can have severe hurricanes, flooding, earthquakes or a meteorite hitting the earth.
But there is nothing wrong with being prepared and having a plan. Remember that an electromagnetic impulse coming from a nuclear device exploded in the atmosphere can burn out all silicone chips in all computers, so your cell phone might not work and neither will your GPS and car. There are chips in everything. Roads will be congested. You will probably find that you will get further with a bicycle.
This warning from the German government did not come as a surprise to me. However one has to ask: “What do they know that we don’t?”
You see…for years the Western governments have told their people that things were getting better. In 2007 they had 170,000 troops in Iraq. Al Qaida was a non entity and well defeated. Troop withdrawal started and completed by December 2011.
But then the Arab Spring, which started a year earlier in December 2010 with the fall of Tunisia, followed by Egypt, Yemen and Lybia (2011), started going badly wrong in Syria in 2012.
The Americans were hardly out of Iraq or Nouri al-Maliki, the American puppet Prime Minister (and a Shia-Muslim), started to arrest the leftovers from Sadam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party (mostly Sunnis’) including vice president Tariq al-Hashimi who fled to Turkey.
Maliki did his utmost to limit the power of both Kurds and Sunnis. Maliki worked to further centralize governance and amassed greater controls and power—from militarily to legislative—for his party. Instead of strengthening and securing Iraq, Maliki's actions have led to a rise in both Kurdish nationalism and Sunni insurgency, which has resulted in civil war and the effective failure of the Iraqi state.
All these Sunni’s that were purged from the Iraqi Army, Police and Civil Service suddenly found themselves without a job and started turning to crime and joining the leftovers of Al-Qaida or vice versa. However these were high ranking officers and even generals who brought structure and discipline to terrorist ranks and suddenly in 2014, ISIS/ISIL burst onto the scene almost out of nowhere.
It was clear that these were not the old Al-Qaida anymore. These guys had tanks, armed vehicles and state of the art weaponry. They were organised... and on the 29th June 2014 declared a Caliphate known as “The Islamic State” or IS.
The ISIS tentacles started to spread all over the globe and you now have satellite organisations in places like Morocco, Mali, Libya, Nigeria, to Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines.
In 2014 a Civil War started in the Ukraine due to the eastern part who did not want to join the Western part in the European Union and NATO and wanted to remain Russian, resulting in a referendum on the Crimea and Russia annexing the Crimea on 18 March 2014.
As the situation in Syria turned for the worse, Bashar al-Assad asked the Russians for help to defeat the rebels and insurgents. America and France were bombing ISIS in north eastern Syria and in 2015 millions of refugees started streaming into Europe. Under this blanket of refugees, ISIS smuggled in thousands of terrorists who are now sleepers in European countries from where they launch terrorist attacks in France, Belgium and Germany.
Currently we see the Turkish dictator Erdogan consolidating more and more power, divorcing the West, having an affair with Putin and wanting to reinstate the Ottoman Empire.
It doesn’t take much to realize that the world is a far worse place now than what it was before 11 September 2001 and strategists have no real answer as to what to do.
David Kilcullen, the Australian born Counter Insurgency strategist and expert admits defeat in his book, “Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic state”.
He was one of the main people who devised the West’s strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan and now says that he was wrong. All that WHAM (Winning Hearts and Minds) didn’t work. He calls for a new strategy that he calls, “Disaggregation”…But if he was wrong before, who will trust him to implement another strategy now?
What is “disaggregation”? Basically he wants to turn terrorism into a non-entity by splitting the terrorists up into individual parts, where they are so insignificant that hardly anybody notices any of them. Deny the terrorists the attention they crave by denying them their support.
But hang on a minute…Isn’t that what we did in South Africa? By the end of the 1980’s the ANC was defeated and nothing more than a fax machine in Dares Salaam. Hardly anybody in SA knew anything about them, their leaders or could care less. It was the Black Conscience Movement that was doing everything not the ANC. There was no reason for the leftist liberals in politics and academia (Van Zyl Slabbert and Prof Willie Esterhuyse to name a few) to go and talk to the ANC in Dakar. FW de Klerk allowed thousands of the scumbags back in the country and blew new life into them. The result we see today.
In January of 2015 I wrote a miniseries about how to counter the Crime insurgency in South Africa. I said forget about WHAM. Fight back. Be brutal and be quick. Nobody ever listens to a South African.
Nevertheless, the world is a rapidly, changing place and off late it has become clear to anybody, not just the German government, that big trouble is looming in the near future. Armageddon might be closer than you think and buying a few bottles of extra water and some extra cans of Ravioli won’t hurt.
All I know is...I am ready for the worst case scenario.
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| Mike's fridge is stocked |
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| Bug out bags are ready |