Very unfortunate, and very predictable. This was bound to happen, not unexpected at all given our deteriorating economic situation. And of course it was the fuel price rises that was the final straw, such is fate, but there is literally nothing the government can do about it, it's not in their hands. Fuel prices are sky rocketing due to the ongoing Zio war in the Gulf, and of course we were never going to escape it either. The fucking misery man.
The biggest problem right now is that we have no economy or funding, the government is desperate for anything just to keep it afloat. They had no choice but to remove electricity subsidies last year, causing electric bills to sky rocket, and now increase gas prices because of the external conflict going on in the region. And with no money coming in, either from any investments, domestic economic activity, or loans that were promised by the Gult but never came and now are on hold, and probably never going to happen, the government is literally stuck with no available options at it's disposal to alleviate the situation and growing impoverishment. So these protests were bound to happen, and I don't think there is anything that can be done on the economic front to quickly quell the people's justified anger and frustration.
Unfortunately, the country as a whole has no choice right now but to find a way to tough it out until the Zio war ends, and hopefully be able to secure some quick injection of funding from someone, without ripping itself apart or descending into another round of violence and chaos in the meantime. The one silver lining that had nothing to do with these events but could help, is that we literally just had significant economic sanctions that were strangling our ability to attract any foreign investments lifted. So despite being too late to help in averting this crisis, I'm desperately hoping it was still just in time to being able to reduce the duration and severity of this situation and improve things just enough in due time to avert any serious societal collapse again. It's a dire situation right now, but hopefully we still have a chance to avert total disaster.
This most important part for me right now is to see how the government responds and handles this situation. I really hope they do the right thing and let the people vent out their frustration, they know they can't do much to materially improve their economic situation right now or address their concerns, there is literally no money for it, they have problems just meeting payroll it's that serious unfortunately. But at the very least they need to make sure they don't use a heavy hand to crack down on them in fear of losing grip on the situation. That could be very counterproductive and only fuel more disorder and resentment. I'll be watching how they handle this, it's a critical test for them and whether they are truly ready to govern a civil society properly.
I know they've invested a lot of time and effort in the past year to try and professionalize the police and other security forces and train them to a higher standard, but I doubt they actually had enough time yet to properly graduate enough well trained personelle for such a wide scale crisis, they're still a mix of poorly trained ex-fighters and newly hired recruits, and we just added and incorporated bunch more from the Kurdish militias that we've reconciled with just a few months ago and integrated into the security forces as part of the settlement agreement. Depending how large these get and how they develop, we might see some bad instances of security breakdowns or lapses of police conduct. I'm praying no serious violence breaks out or bad actors take advantage of this to start something, but that wouldn't be surprising right now with where the country is at unfortunately. If they can maintain discipline and follow orders properly, and they actually receive the appropriate orders from up top, it would be a great sign of progress on the security and policing front at least for us.
Praying for the best, this will be a serious ongoing challenge for sometime, I hope we can handle it properly and get through it together unscathed.
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