“I joined the Navy to see the world. I’ve seen it. Now how do I get out?”
Readers will most likely be familiar with “Dear Abby,” the American advice column that has been popular since its inception in 1956. The above question was sent to her in 1981 but may be even more relevant today.
It will be no secret to readers of this publication that some of the formally most-prominent, most-free jurisdictions in the world are now in a state of serious decline and face economic, social, and possibly political collapse. Although their level of influence is still close to their all-time high, they’re each at a precipice from which they may soon fall.
The great majority of our readers were born in these jurisdictions and, at present, still live there. Many of them read publications such as this in order to find out whether it will still be feasible to safely remain where they are in the future and, if not, where else they might go.
Not surprisingly, those of us who are not citizens of these jurisdictions and/or do not reside in them have a very different perspective.
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In my frequent meetings with those struggling with the decision of whether to expatriate, the one comment that I hear most often is, “What can you do? The whole world’s falling apart. There’s no escape.”
Yet this is not the case. Although we’re witnessing the final peak of empire for the US, with its closest allies (the EU, Canada, Japan, Australia, etc.) joined at the hip and in danger of being taken down at roughly the same time the giant falls, this group of countries, however powerful at present, does not comprise all the countries of the world.
To be sure, of the nearly 200 countries in the world, most all of them are…