Wow! BlackFive went where I dared not go!

Those guys over at BlackFive have balls the size of bowling balls.

They went where I wouldn't go in polite conversations.  Sure, me and my buddies have talked about it in private but never in public.  Check out this post by them...

Posted By Grim • [November 25, 2011]
Instapundit links to a round of stories about the Euro crisis, and includes this comment:

“To predict the failure of the Euro was easy peasy: all that was needed was a slight familiarity with economics and the human race. To predict what comes next is much, much harder.” Yes.

I think I can make one prediction with relative safety.  The social-democracy policies that have ruined many European economies, and which currently threaten the stability of the whole European project, weren't paid for with deficiets alone.  They were also paid for by gutting European military budgets, relying on the umbrella of US protection.
You can't stand up a competent brigade overnight:  it takes a long time, as the examples of the ISF and ANSF demonstrate.  Non-Anglosphere NATO forces participated in these wars, so there is some small core of experience they can draw upon:  but by the same token, it should be clear to anyone who participated in either war that the non-Anglosphere NATO forces could not have performed other than in a support role.  Some of this is due to power-projection concerns such as heavy airlift capacity, but some of it is simply due to the weakness of these forces.
So, the prediction:  The already-common riots will evolve into insurgencies as the pinch becomes tighter, and the military forces of continental Europe are inadequate to stop them.  What comes after that?  An attempt at rapid re-militarization in Europe, with all the attendant chaos and violence that implies; pleas for a major US involvement to fill the gap while they try to stand up those forces.  What comes after that?  War, or nightfall.

I mean seriously!

Like I said, we've talked about it in whispers but this occupy wallstreet is the precursor to something nasty...and its global.

They're talking about riots turning nasty.  As in threatening democracy nasty.

IF and its a big if...food prices jump, we have periods of extremely---as in unbearably high oil prices---then you could see widespread unrest.  Not only in Europe but here in the US.

That my friends is why I have more than the FEMA recommended amount of food stored.  That my friends is why a person in New York would consider my collection of firearms an arsenal.

Are you ready in case of the worst and if not then I suggest you redo your Christmas shopping list to something a bit more practical than the latest consumer electronics.