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The warnings are real: What governments are preparing for – and why 30 days is not enough

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Mihkel Johannes Paimla
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What governments are preparing for

Dan Bongino’s warning to keep food and water in stock for 30 days is a useful message, but one that has a credibility problem. Many will dismiss it because they know who is spreading it – and that’s exactly how a warning is lost. I separate the bearer from the message. The signal that should be taken seriously is not the number of 30 days per se, but what is shown when you compare it with what military bases are now supposed to prepare for.

The gap between three and ninety days is not a rounding error. It is the difference between weathering a storm and surviving a systemic collapse.

I’ve been teaching people crisis preparedness for more than two decades, and my scale is simple. Supplies for three days are reasonable. Thirty days is the absolute minimum. Ninety days is not a shopping recommendation – it is a warning. When those in charge of military bases start planning an operation for an entire quarter without connection to the public utility network, I no longer ask whether the scenario is real, but what they know that the rest of us have not been told.

The 90-day signal from military bases

When the Pentagon instructs military bases to prepare for ninety days without normal civilian infrastructure, it is a warning of a certain scenario. Military planners do not develop such guidelines because of a thunderstorm or a regional power outage. Ninety days without a connection to the supply network indicates an event whose effects last longer than the period in which an emergency response is expected – such as an electromagnetic pulse, a nuclear or radiological incident, a nuclear weapon detonated off the coast to trigger an EMP, a serious cyber attack or a shutdown as a result of a new currency regulation that paralyzes payment systems, on which everyone depends.

For years, I have documented the pattern of governments preparing for the crisis they plan to manage, and not necessarily the one they publicly warn about. When military bases are instructed to be self-sufficient for a quarter, in practice the question arises as to who is protected. Military bases will protect themselves, their equipment and their strategic facilities. They are not public shelters. Americans who think they can drive to the gate and will be let in are planning for a rescue that won’t come.

The honest reading is: With ninety days, the government itself admits that the cavalry will not arrive in time. This is not scaremongering – that is what the directive says if you take it literally. If the institution with the most resources in the world thinks it makes sense to be self-sufficient for a quarter of a year, a household with a few tin cans in the pantry should seriously reconsider its own supply situation.

The cyberattack as a pretext for a financial reset

The recent wave of horror stories about AI cyberattacks is, in my view, a preparation of the public for an event in the banking system that will be blamed on hackers or artificial intelligence. The New American reported that leading AI companies are quietly preparing for a disaster that some of their own executives believe is inevitable: a major AI-enabled cyberattack that could cripple banks, communications, electricity, or water supplies. At the same time, they expect public outrage and are working to influence Washington’s response [1]. This is not a warning to the public. This is a script that is written in advance.

The timing is important, because the US national debt has exceeded 40 trillion dollars and is growing faster and faster. Those in power need a system reset to preserve their assets, and a cyber narrative provides them with the pretext. A bail-in, or transition to a tokenized digital currency, could transfer government debt to a new system, while ordinary savers lose 90 to 99 percent of their purchasing power in the transition. This is how a reset works: the liabilities are revalued, the insiders get into position first, and the savers get a new unit of account and a poorer life.

As I have written before, the dollar is losing value to an extent that anyone who follows the currency markets can observe. This is a doubly losing scenario: the dollar loses value abroad, while the domestic financial system loses its integrity at home [2]. During such a transition, supply chains, grocery stores, fuel, and even power supply could come to a standstill. That’s exactly why the warnings of 90 days without grid coverage are important – the financial event and the physical event are not separate stories. It’s the same story, told in two languages.

Power outage: Cities empty out, the country is besieged

Most people have no food, no water, no toilet paper and no working flashlight for three days. The book The Coming Storm describes a modern society that is dangerously vulnerable: disasters expose vulnerabilities in infrastructure, supply chains, and public provision, and most households lack basic survival supplies [3]. Cities are artificial entities. They don’t grow food, but import it from rural areas – on trucks that run on fuel that comes through pipelines and refineries that depend on the power grid.

When the power grid, water supply and sewage systems fail for 90 days, cities become war zones. Desperate people will first loot shops, then houses and finally spread further into the surrounding countryside in search of food. Residents of rural and suburban areas must prepare not only for waves of unprepared people, but also for the technical problems that follow after a power outage: water treatment, sewer backlog, fuel for generators, switches, solar power capacity, and physical defense. The romantic prepper fantasy of a quiet cabin in the woods ignores the fact that a cabin without water treatment is actually a life-size dehydration machine.

Prevention does not consist of gadgets. It means recognizing real gaps, building a community on the ground, and abandoning the fantasy that the government will save everyone. As I wrote in my analysis of why smart people are stockpiling now: Buying extra supplies while supply chains are visibly fragile is not compulsive hoarding, but strategic self-sufficiency [4]. Those who wait until the emergency message says what to do will compete with millions of others for the last carton of bottled water.

There is also a hard truth about who comes to harm first. Most retirement plans assume a healthy, mobile adult who lives alone. But most households have a different composition: These include children, the elderly and people who are dependent on medication or mobility aids [5]. A realistic plan considers the people in your household as they actually are, rather than as a checklist imagines them to be.

War, Energy Shock and the Decade of Darkness

I think it is quite possible that Trump will bomb Iran after the midterm elections and that Iran’s announced retaliation could destroy the energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf for a decade. I have already warned that fleet build-up near Iran is a trap that could end in disaster, and the concentration of firepower in the region leaves little room for de-escalation [6]. The same pattern can be seen in fuel shortages, which are already spreading to seven states – Texas, North Dakota, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan and Nebraska have declared fuel shortages, while the war is driving global energy supplies into a catastrophic shortage [7].

That would trigger global famine, riots, revolutions, and regional conflicts — what I call the Decade of Darkness — and greatly exacerbate scenarios of power outages and supply chain disruptions. Energy is the most important resource. When diesel and fertilizer become scarce, the food system does not gradually adapt; it comes to a standstill. The Southern African Development Community has already warned that a severe El Niño could exacerbate drought, hunger, water scarcity and disease outbreaks in the region [8]. The global shocks in fertilizer and fuel are added to these climate-related pressures.

This is not scaremongering. Energy, fertilizer, and food crises are already making their way through the system, and food shortages are likely to continue into 2027 and beyond. The chief economist of HSBC, quoted in a report on energy supply, warned that Australia is in one of the worst positions in the world to cope with the economic consequences of a conflict between the US and Iran [9]. If a wealthy, resource-rich country is poorly positioned, then the average American household is not prepared at all with two weeks’ worth of supplies.

Conclusion: Prepare for scenarios, don’t panic

I don’t trust the government, banks, water utilities, the health system, or food delivery networks to function smoothly in a real crisis. This is not cynicism, but a conclusion that I draw from the fact that I see how institutions fail in front of everyone’s eyes. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is transferring disaster response tasks to the states as part of a new federal plan. Critics say this change could lead to poorer states having fewer resources [10]. Decentralization is basically good, but it is also an admission that the head office cannot bear the burden.

The responsible response is not panic, but preparation: identify what you are missing, store clean food and water, plan for sanitation and energy, and strengthen self-defense and local resilience. Thirty days are not enough. The military plans with 90 days, and a conscientious budget should provide for more than an institution, not less.

Whether the trigger is a cyberattack, a currency reform, a power grid outage, or a war, those who prepare now will be able to help themselves and their neighbors.

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