Sept. 22, 2024 (EIRNS)—Many are baffled at how the seemingly “civilized” West has arrived at the current state it exists in today. Although likely an underestimate, it is now reported that the U.S. homeless population exceeds 650,000. Add to this the rate of drug addiction and overdose, which has killed hundreds of thousands over the past 20 years; the amount of train derailments—among those trains and railroads that still exist; the skyrocketing national debt and the far more dangerous though not discussed problem of financial derivatives. To these a dozens of other specifics could be added from across the U.S. and Europe, all illustrating in gruesome detail the collapse of the trans-Atlantic system.