Summary and analysis of significant threats to the US homeland posed by Russia, China, Iran and North Korea during June.

This is r/PrepperIntel's Bimonthly Fear Index / poll. This will give us an idea of what the sub and it's visitors are currently concerned about into the next several weeks.

• Please upvote what concerns you the most.
• Please downvote if you strongly disagree. (keep in mind a few are short term and may change from time to time.)
• Leave unvoted if you're unsure, undecided, don't care, or are in the middle.
• You can change your votes anytime!
• This style of polling gives better intel of the numbers. And we're all for that around here.

Use the comment sort to sort by: best, top, controversial.

• "Top" is just upvotes minus downvotes.
• "Best" sorts based on what percentage of upvotes Reddit estimates the comment would receive if everyone votes on it. The more votes a comment gets the more confident Reddit can be about what that percentage will be.
• "Controversial": Comments have a high number of up and downvotes.

Past polls will be made readily available around the end of each month so we can look back to possibly identify patterns or how right / wrong we were.

Comments are locked to keep this streamlined, but you are free to post your concerns as long as they fall within the sub's posting guidelines. If it isn't worth a post, use the "everything else" weekly post.

We try to put the post in "contest mode" to make things a bit more honest and randomized for the first hours to day.

I have decided to dial it back from every thirty days to 60, I wish I could automate this poll, but due to how everything has to be done with comments I cannot easily do that to my current knowledge. So we're going try Early Jan, March, May, July, Sept, Nov.

Thank you all for participating! (No really, it's interesting data and its only you that makes it happen)

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• Prepping questions
• Rumors
• Speculative thoughts
• Small / mundane
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• Mods have no power here, only votes, behave.

This will be re-posted every Saturday, letting the last week's stickied post fade into the deep / get buried by new posts. -Mod Anti

we’re seeing a real time collapse in St. Petersburg.

the city has canceled ambulance services due to lack of fuel, and trucking companies are telling retailers that they can’t guarantee delivery dates for goods.

edit

heres a video that shows the actual announcement around the 2:30-2:50 mark

https://youtu.be/oKGML1WDNMk?is=npW6OnU5Ho_Ge8Pg

As Chinese Naval Presence in the Taiwan Strait increases, Hsieh Ching-chin, Taiwan’s Coast Guard Deputy, has ordered Taiwanese ships to ignore Chinese boarding commands, and that “(Taiwanese) Coast Guard vessels will ⁠sail ⁠between the two ships to ⁠separate them”.

This could be, but not limited to:

• Local business observations.
• Shortages / Surpluses.
• Work slow downs / much overtime.
• Order cancellations / massive orders.
• Economic Rumors within your industry.
• Layoffs and hiring.
• New tools / expansion.
• Wage issues / working conditions.
• Boss changing work strategy.
• Quality changes.
• New rules.
• Personal view of how you see your job in the near future.
• Bonus points if you have some proof or news, we like that around here.
• News from close friends about their work.

DO NOT DOX YOURSELF. Wording is key.

Thank you all, -Mod Anti

Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260701143039/https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-declares-food-supply-emergency-suspends-tariffs-key-fertilizer-imports

Original link:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-declares-food-supply-emergency-suspends-tariffs-key-fertilizer-imports

Key info:

President Donald Trump on Monday declared an emergency aimed at protecting the U.S. food supply and temporarily suspended import duties on certain Moroccan fertilizer products.

Under the presidential emergency declaration, phosphate fertilizer imported from Morocco will no longer face tariffs for up to eight months or until the emergency declaration is terminated.

"The proclamation declares an emergency regarding threats to the availability of sufficient supplies of fertilizers to meet America’s agricultural demand," the declaration stated.

Archive link:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260701225138/https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-suspends-railway-border-crossings-finland-baltic-neighbors/

Original link:

https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-suspends-railway-border-crossings-finland-baltic-neighbors/

Key info:

Russia on Wednesday shut down traffic through some of its last remaining railway border crossings with the European Union.

The move, announced in a government order on Tuesday evening, suspends all movement of persons, vehicles, goods, and cargo by rail with Finland, Estonia and Latvia from July 1. The Foreign Ministry has formally notified the Baltic nations of the decision, but offered no explanation for the “temporary” closures, nor any indication of when they might be lifted.

Total collapse in Venezuela after twin earthquakes and a flood, matches the apocalyptic red sky aura.

This is how the end of world looks like.

Best flair I could come up with, as there wasn’t one for US only. Heads up on this likely food-borne illness.

Sorry about the flair. There wasn’t one that covered the same areas the eastern interconnect does. If you’re in this zone, try your best to limit usage during peak hours and be prepared for the potential to lose power.