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The head of America’s largest bank told an audience at the Institute of International Finance that his team is running scenarios in preparation for a global conflict involving nuclear powers.
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told the crowd that war was imminent and nuclear proliferation was a greater existential threat than climate change.
“World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries,” Dimon said at the annual event in Washington, DC.
William Koblensky Varela
November 18, 2024
Jamie Dimon Says He and His Team Are Preparing for Serious Conflict with Russia, China.| Moneywise
I need a deeper bunker, and more supplies stored away. Nuclear winter is tough in an already cold climate.
I can think of about 10,000 things that are a greater threat than climate change. I suppose I have to make allowances for who he was talking to.
“Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, told the crowd that war was imminent and nuclear proliferation was a greater existential threat than climate change.”
That could just be him trying to pinch off a short squeeze somewhere.
I would get really worried when the report says, Jamie Dimon can’t be reached for comment.
Meaning he’s bunkered up in an undisclosed location.
The climate change thing gave it away. (Everybody knows it’s BS except the useful idiots.)
But ya, bunkering up and having more supplies is never a bad thing in this “climate”.
I genuinely don’t understand the point of trying to live through a full nuclear war. The surface of the planet will be uninhabitable (at least by mammals) for hundreds if not thousands of years. Even if you have enough food stored away for a couple years, at some point you’re going to have to come to the surface and try to eat, and everything’s gonna be dead.
Personally I want to be at ground zero when the nukes start falling.
Where do you get your information? The books I have on the topic are not that pessimistic.
Been a while since I’ve read anything I can quote, but most of what I’ve read in the past says that nuclear winter will pretty much decimate all plant life in the northern hemisphere, and along with it all animals that need the plants to live. Southern hemisphere might have a few habitable spots if sufficiently shielded from larger weather patterns, but for the most part the theories I’ve seen say radiation will get spread all over the place.
And even if the southern hemisphere had habitable areas, they’re not going to welcome everybody from the northern hemisphere with open arms.
Ever seen the movie Threads? That’s another good view of what a post-nuclear war world would look like, and that one isn’t even going deep into the nuclear winter part.
John,
are you aware that Russia has nuke rated bomb shelters for more than 90% of their population? That should tell you something on the subject.
The Russians do a lot of crazy shit. That they would build shelters doesn’t tell me predictions for nuclear winter are wrong.
It is not just the Russians that have shelters for their citizens. It is also Austrians, Finns, Swedes, and Swiss. All the numeric data I have seen claim the radiation from fallout will be tolerable within a few weeks.
My property is not the best place in the country to have a shelter, but it appears to be good enough. Especially when we have the farmland and equipment. From discussing this with my brother, the biggest concern is, will there be diesel for the equipment? We expect food production will have a high priority in a rationing environment, and even if there were inadequate supplies we would be at the head of the line for the food produced on our farm. And even if there were no fuel, there will be lots of gardening, livestock, and hunting opportunities.
Very inaccurate movie.
Nuclear Winter has been debunked.
Nuclear war is quite survivable.
Not comfortable or easy, but survivable.
Cancer rates will go up, life expectancy will reduce.
Don’t be at ground zero.
Try to to be where any fallout comes down.
If you are where the fallout comes down, and could not evacuate, then seal up the building as best you can, filter the air, and put as much mass and distance between you and the outside as you can manage. Then stay there for 2-3 weeks as the fallout decays.
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More to the point: How *certain* are you of your information? If we’re all going to die, then resistance is futile… but then so is everything else.
If *someone* is *not* going to die, they’re the only ones who count. If there is any possibility of a single survivor… EVEN in the presence of “absolute” proof there will be *no* survivors… THE FUTURE IS UNKNOWN: “The universe is not just stranger than you think it is, it’s stranger than you *can* think it is.” – Richard Feinman
Only the survivors count. There is literally nothing else to do, than to pursue being one of them.
Everything else is nihilism.
I like modernity. Living in a medieval world without toilet paper or antibiotics doesn’t seem like something I want to be around for.
You be you. I’ll be me.
As a side note, congratulations on your 300th comment here!
300, woo hoo! You need a “chatty cathy” badge to attach to our profiles when we hit milestones…
Fine. Give up now. Leave the world to those of us with hope for or posterity. you know, like those medieval peasants who never had flush toilets or antibiotics, but nonetheless had hope for your eventual existence as part of God’s plan. As for me, though I know bumps will be in the road, want to survive and see my grandkids, even if it’s by candle light in a world heated by firewood.
As Joe said, you do you, I’ll do me. Gotta say, though, if your god’s plan includes nuking the planet, you might want to consider picking a god who’s less of a psychopath….
HAHAHA well, that’s one thing we can truly agree on. I wouldn’t want to live around you in a medieval world either.
Nukes are very survivable if one is outside targeted metros. And a lot of people out here understand how to create a very livable world without google telling them how.
Electric generation and hydrocarbons are what run the modern world.
We got all that in spades. Along with the will to rebuild a better civilization than we have now.
You shouldn’t give up on yourself so easy.
According to darwin we made it billions of years without all that.
We can do better. So can you. If you got the will to. Will you survive? No, nobody here ever does.
Death smiles at us all, all you can do is smile back. And fight to the last breath.
Try it, you’ll feel better about yourself.
And hey, God might even love you for it.
I live in Seattle, which is definitely on the target list. If I’m not in the initial blast zone I’m definitely within the high radiation zone where you’re dead soon but not soon enough to avoid extreme suffering. Better to be right under it (or on it, like the guy in Dr. Strangelove).
John says.
‘I live in Seattle, which is definitely on the target list. If I’m not in the initial blast zone I’m definitely within the high radiation zone where you’re dead soon but not soon enough to avoid extreme suffering. Better to be right under it (or on it, like the guy in Dr. Strangelove.”
I figured you and your friends would have built a really deep bunker by now?
I mean, Trump is coming with the whole project 2025 agenda and all?
God’s a psycho? Scary ain’t it. Or maybe you don’t know what reality truly is? After all, it’s a pretty limited view from down here.
Ya, your right John, Seattle is a little hopeless. If I was you, I would strive for immortality.
Find a strong concrete wall facing Bremerton Naval base and do a “walk like an Egyptian” pose in front of it when it goes off. Maybe flip the bird?
Use your imagination.