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The original was posted on /r/collapse by /u/BigJobsBigJobs on 2023-08-30 19:08:59+00:00.

When collapses occur, people flee for their lives. Whether it’s a political crisis, an economic collapse, famine or a natural disaster like a hurricane or an earthquake. Some try to flee to what they hope will be safe haven or a better future. There may be a trickle of refugees… or a torrent.

What is waiting for them is very dark.

Saudi Arabian border guards have killed and maimed hundreds of refugees - men, women and children, many from Ethiopia. Thousands more have been forced into internment camps, where torture and rape by guards have been reported.

Operation Lone Star, ostensibly Texas’ governmental response to a reported surge of Central American refugees - the militarized Texas Border Patrol shot across the Mexican border, wounding a Mexican citizen. It is suspected by many that the Border Patrol has been regularly firing warning shots at refugees - across the border into Mexico. This time they shot a citizen of another country and got caught. It is an international incident.

And because history doesn’t echo, it rhymes - almost 20 years ago, when Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana, armed police and civilians (mainly white) blocked the Crescent City Bridge and prevented refugees (mainly black, but some tourists) from fleeing New Orleans by force.

Evacuees Were Turned Away at Gretna, La. : NPR

It’s open war on refugees, doesn’t matter where they’re from or what they are fleeing. From another country, from the city across the river - doesn’t matter. They’ll include you in that war if unfortunate circumstances befall you.

And as collapses accelerate, there will be more and more refugees, from a torrent to a tidal wave worldwide and military force will increasingly be used against civilians. In my darkest imaginings I think that the next use of nuclear weapons will be used against an uncontrollable mass exodus from a country or a region, against refugees.