A sobering essay by John Michael Greer.
What he misses, though, is that before the era of absolute resource depletion and depopulation sets in, the great powers (and some not so great ones) can still use whatever they have left to bomb each other back to the Stone Age.
What *really* stops Israel from nuking Gaza, Iran from nuking Israel, Pakistan from nuking Iran, and Trump from nuking everyone? Or Russia from nuking Ukraine, for that matter. Only fear of the other side´s nuclear weapons, or the public opinion in your own country (irrelevant in some cases).
So in the decades ahead, we are probably headed, not for Adrianople, but for a messy combination of both high tech warfare, drones and terrorism.
Come to think of it, we seem to be there already!
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