There was always going to have to be a culling of the populations and grasping by the major power holders over the remaining resources.

We were always going to have to draw down one way or another. The choice was to try to control for a softer landing or fighting over the last few parachutes.

As long as we let these idiots currently in charge call the shots, it's going to be option 2 with us doing the bleeding and the dying. That's always how it was going to go.