India and Pakistan both hungry for resources to supply it's large populations stepped up their rethoric and all out conflict broke out. Africa, India and China was also turned into major Battlefields in the struggle for precious metals and other strategic raw materials. The armies and armadas of USA, China, India, Europe and Russia all mounted desperate crusades to fight for the few last oil fields remaining in operation in South Americas and Middle East. In the second great depression and the desperate times following we saw that populistic, nationalistic and radical leaders had little trouble to convince the population how other nations were to blame for their misery. It turned out humanity had learned nothing from the history of the 1930s, so history was to repeat itself once more. That fantasy was brutally stopped by the very finite resources of our globe. The old economic system suffered a total failure, since it was built upon the false assumption of infinite growth. November 2026 saw the Stock exchanges crash on a scale even worse then the great depression in 1929. In what is now called the great collapse of 2026, prices on Oil, transport, food and most goods started skyrocketing shutting down businesses and causing mass unemployment. Shortage of critical resources all over the world became extremely serious as hundreds of millions consumers in China, India and South Americas begun living the same quality of life as the rest of the western world. It started with semiconductors but soon spread to even more basic resources and goods. During the mid 2020s it became apparent that neither pandemics, climate change nor terrorists was the most urgent threat to the western way of life.
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