Pentagon Mega-City Warfare and Hurricane Sandy Looting

• 30:38Pentagon reports that future megacities with large slum populations and civil unrest will be the battlegrounds for modern warfare.
• 31:23Tim questions whether the Pentagon is full of shit about megacity warfare or if they're really talking about population control and martial law.
• 32:05Discussion of whether future urban warfare means fighting in American cities against our own people or foreign wars in places like Russia.
• 32:58Economic collapse and financial crisis—when the government can't print money or bail everyone out—will lead to unemployment and tent cities.
• 33:46Unlike other declining empires, the U.S. still has overwhelming military and technological dominance, so the decline won't be a sudden switch.
• 34:22Rome declined over a hundred fifty years before the West fell, while the Eastern Roman Empire lasted a thousand years.
• 35:31America's larger, more spread-out population means economic collapse and displacement could be messier and more violent than what happened to Britain.
• 36:20Climate change and repeated major hurricanes displacing populations constantly over a year or two would strain the entire system.
• 37:17Repeated disasters are like psychological terrorism—constant car bombs wearing people down—rather than one massive single event.
• 37:57After Hurricane Sandy, people in Staten Island were defending homes with guns and bats while others drove around looking for houses to rob.
• 38:34Disenfranchised people in Long Island and Westchester could turn violent and attack others when society's structures finally crack during the next major disaster.

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