6 Days in May 2026: Why the past week means we'll soon lose everything

May 16, 2026

Read this carefully because it may save you from losing everything of value in as little as 6 months from now.

Last Saturday's Moscow Victory shambolic no-hardware Parade clips the fact that Putin is on the way out.

More consequentially, Trump just gave Xi's China the Glaspie Signal, much the same as the then US Ambassador gave to Saddam Hussein in July 1990 and resulting in Iraq invading Kuwait a couple of weeks later.

The Davidson Window for when China is militarily ready to invade Taiwan is closing fast.

Match that with China's Demographic Crisis and it’s reasonably clear that the events of next year will make the closure of the Strait of Hormuz look like a mild shock to the world order.

If Putin goes first, then the final breakup of the Russian empire will occur - think the chaos of 90’s Chechnya transposed nationwide to cover other little-known nationalities such as Tatars, Bashkirs and the Chuvash.

As author Donald James novelized In 1983, “Russia, in all its grandeur, brutality, and impenetrable mystery, has been transformed into a human volcano about to explode”  

This will not be the Soviet Union in 1991 all over again - the collapse of the final Russian empire will look more like 1917, or even like Yugoslavia in 1991.

It will get much worse before it gets better (for your finances and mine)

And then Taiwan.

The invasion will likely result in a 1929-level Extinction-Level economic event, that much is clear regardless of its success or failure.

Think Japan's Lost Decades of the 90s and 100-X that.

And that’s if the invasion is successful - amphibious invasions are incredibly difficult and nobody's tried one in the missile and drone era (thanks to a porcupine called Ukraine)

Think of nothing going into China, and nothing going out. Say goodbye to your cheap iPhone 19.

You can also say goodbye to your 401K/Pension Fund, stocks, savings and non-food physical assets.

To butcher former British Prime Minister Harold McMillan's 1957 quote, you’ve never had it so good, and you never will again.