{"id":640861,"date":"2026-07-24T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=640861"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:20:00","slug":"the-polycrisis-of-2026-whirls-like-a-demon-infested-storm-overcoming-this-human-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=640861","title":{"rendered":"“The Polycrisis Of 2026 Whirls Like A Demon-Infested Storm Overcoming This Human Project…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Polycrisis Of 2026 Whirls Like A Demon-Infested Storm Overcoming This Human Project…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by James Howard Kunstler,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Struggle session<\/h2>\n
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\u201c. . .there is no saving the Left. There is only saving America from them.\u201d \u2014 Sasha Stone<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The polycrisis of 2026 whirls like a demon-infested storm overcoming this human project of ours like a medieval panorama of the world\u2019s end. <\/strong>Everything is fraught, tilting toward hazard, menace, ruin. Even under a summer sun, the mind sees only darkness everywhere it looks.<\/p>\n

Apocalypse now, it seems like.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You almost can\u2019t blame the doomers, the black pill-ers, lost in their transports of dread.<\/p>\n

But I tell you, we will get through this.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Is it a surprise that the IRGC has a death wish for its host, Iran?<\/strong> They\u2019ve been advertising it loudly for half a century, yearning for martyrdom, the bliss of paradise, marriage to multiple perfumed virgins, all the pomegranates you could ever want, and perpetual dreamtime beside a gently burbling fountain in the palace of eternity. Trouble is, to get there you must have your head blown off.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what the IRGC is asking for, though the millions of ordinary Iranians probably have their doubts about the ask. They are hostages of the IRGC regime, which refuses to just stop being a problem for the world. Mr. Trump\u2019s proffer for Iran still abides: become a normal nation, sovereign and all, only without atom bombs. Let ships sail through Hormuz unmolested. Sell your oil, make some money, trade with the other fellas across the Persian Gulf, have a nice civilized life with all the refinements of age-old Persian culture, even with its Islamic overlay. Be happy!<\/p>\n

The USA does not seek to occupy Iran, steal its resources, subjugate its people, force them to buy Minnie Mouse plush toys, play baseball, eat Jimmy Dean sausage for breakfast, strum banjoes, or wear cowboy hats. Just stop projecting violence and discord all over the Middle East.<\/p>\n

You can\u2019t make us<\/em>, the IRGC says. Yes, we will, the USA replies. And so it goes. Next up: bridges and power plants. Plus, every ship you damage, we\u2019ll deduct the cost of repair from your frozen assets held in our banks. This is where things stand after the thirteenth night of strategic bombing against the IRGC\u2019s launch sites, drone factories, missile storage caverns, and shoreline military installations. Iran prepared assiduously for this death-scene for decades, building hidey-holes here, there, and everywhere. But every time they launch something now, our satellites mark the coordinates, and boom, now there\u2019s one less hidey-hole.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s currency, the rial, has an exchange rate against the US dollar of about 1,900,000 to one dollar. There is hardly a functioning economy left. The people are flat broke. Everyday life must be hell now. Could be the IRGC was getting tons of munitions and material for free from China, but days ago we blew up the railroad bridge at Aq Tekeh-Khan that was China\u2019s main connection to Iran, so that\u2019s over with.<\/p>\n

You must doubt that Russia is capable of sending arms to Iran at this point. Russia needs every drone and missile it can fabricate now that Ukraine is sending drones clear into Moscow and St. Petersburg on a regular basis. <\/strong>Of course, that war is being stoked by NATO, which perforce includes the USA. A bill (H.R. 2913 \u2014 the Ukraine Support Act) that would furnish $1.3-1.8 billion in direct security, military, and reconstruction assistance for Ukraine plus $8 billion in loans was passed by the House in June, but languishes in the Senate. President Trump has threatened to veto it, as running counter to the administration\u2019s preference for negotiations with Russia to end the Ukraine War rather than extend it.<\/p>\n

These two conflicts must seem intractable for now, but the mojo driving them has clear and present limits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the USA does not underwrite Ukraine\u2019s war effort, then that leaves the EU nations, who are increasingly broke, and for all their idle talk are really incapable of mounting a major arms production campaign.<\/p>\n

The UK especially is skating on thin ice these days<\/strong> as Mr. Trump methodically cancels its long-running command and control of global finance through the City of London (as its \u201cWall Street\u201d is called). In fact, it looks as if the floundering UK \u2014 with dopey Andy Burnham rolling in as Britain\u2019s seventh Prime Minister in a decade \u2014 has passed the ball of globalist leadership to its forward striker (and all-purpose fixer) Mark Carney the Prime Minister of Canada.<\/p>\n

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Carney, who was previously chief of the Bank of England, has played a series of losing games against President Trump the past year,<\/strong> while Mr. Carney is busy wrecking the Canadian economy for the sake of the globalist \u201cgreen\u201d flimflam, a sustained high volume of third world immigration, and outlandish DEI activism that includes giving vast tracts of real estate back to Canada\u2019s\u00a0First Nations<\/em>\u00a0people, their Indians. Carney has also very actively played footsie with the CCP to a degree that is seriously pissing off Mr. Trump. Among all the other shocks and surprises upcoming, you might imagine him having to send the 82nd\u00a0Airborne up to Ottawa to inform PM Carney that there will be no globalist seat of operations in North America.<\/p>\n

Yes, things are getting that strange.<\/strong> And then, continuing the clean-up operation south of our border, there is Cuba to straighten out. Cuba is obviously next. Our patience with that failing state\u2019s communist export project is particularly thin, now that the Democratic Party here is entertaining Marxist-Leninist dreams of glory.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, we have serious concerns with the financial markets and the widening income inequality that drives the younger generations\u2019 yen for \u201csocialism\u201d (free rent, free medicine, free stuff). <\/strong><\/p>\n

Financialization concentrates and compounds wealth while the salary-mule class stagnates, suffers, goes broke, and nurses its grievances.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re pushing into the season of financial train wrecks. <\/strong>AI has cornered all the free capital in the land \u2014 for something that appears to be an existential menace as much as any potential economic benefit \u2014 and it is wildly perverting the equity market. The bond market groans under the debt burden and the impossibility of fiscal prudence. Capitalism that can\u2019t self-correct invites financial and political violence.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s probably a greater threat to us than the faraway wars, bad as they are. Mr. Trump, Secretary Bessent, and others in charge surely know this \u2014 that the American ownership class has become tiny, and that the cure for that is getting the vast dis-owned, forsaken middle-class back into businesses that they will own, in an economy based on production of real goods, not on playing games with money.<\/p>\n

There is so much to be done and we can get it done if we screw our heads back on.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 07\/24\/2026 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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