What Preppers should know about what will be of REAL VALUE when Currency collapses in value. It won’t solely be Gold and/or Silver.
Most people have never had to think seriously about what happens when money stops working. Not just inflation chewing away at purchasing power, or a bank account temporarily frozen during a dispute, but a full-scale situation where the currency in your wallet becomes about as useful as scrap paper.
That is the reality that kicks in during a barter economy collapse, and it has happened more often throughout history than most people are comfortable acknowledging.
Contents
1 Understanding What Triggers a Barter Economy Collapse
2 Food and Water: The Foundation of Any Post-Collapse Trade System
3 Alcohol, Tobacco, and the Psychology of Vice Goods in Crisis
4 Medical Supplies and Prescription Medications as Crisis Currency
5 Precious Metals and Their Complicated Role in a Barter Economy Collapse
6 Tools, Seeds, and Practical Skills That Become Priceless
7 Fuel, Fire, and Energy: Controlling the Power of Warmth and Mobility
8 Hygiene Products and Sanitation Supplies in Economic Collapse
9 Communication, Security, and Information as Trade Commodities
10 Building a Barter Economy Collapse-Ready Stockpile Without Going Broke
BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇺🇸 The Pentagon raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest possible designation, over concerns Israel is aggressively spying on top U.S. officials, per NBC News
So let’s look at the way the US lost the most recent round of its war with Iran:
Regime change failed
Nuclear prevention failed
Defense of Arab bases failed
Defense of Israel failed
Destruction of military capabilities failed
Strait of Hormuz blocked
About the only thing the US did successfully was to not lose any warships. Which, one notes, could have much more easily been accomplished by not sending them to the Persian Gulf in the first place. And not only did the USA fail in its objectives, but it ended the conflict worse off than when it began.
That is, by every historical measure, a defeat. It’s not an existential one, nor is it necessarily the last word on the international conflict. But the history books will record this as being a defeat of the USA by Iran.
Absent an effective political and military strategy that restores stable and enduring peace between nations in the region, this war risks becoming yet another U.S. exercise in violence untethered from purpose; a war ending in failure, useless destruction, and economic depression that will require years to overcome.
It’s not hard to understand why the Chinese have absolutely no trust of Clown World or its pet media once one learns the truth of Tiananmen Square. And it does tend to call other Western media reports of China into question.
The US reportedly contacted key leaders among the protesting students and made them an offer—don’t wind down, go harder on the protesting and we’ll give you US passports, CIA-run safe passage out of China, a new home in the richest country in the world, and enrolment in top US universities—Harvard, Princeton, Columbia. Now that was an offer hard to refuse.
In late May, student leader Chai Ling gave her infamously puzzling interview/ talk, where she seemed to predict a Tiananman Square massacre in which she would die. She said she was speaking her last words, as there would be “a massacre which would spill blood like a river through Tiananmen Square” – but she also included the information that she “would not be there” as her new plan was to move to the United States to study there! Years later, she wrote that her remarkable prediction of a coming violent crackdown which would lead to a Tiananmen Square massacre was something she had heard from Li Lu, not her own forecast.
Another person in the leading student group, Kong Qingdong, later recalled how he how he had come across undergraduates using a mimeograph machine to makes copies of personal documents, to give to the US Embassy in return for passports. Two of the top leaders, Chai Ling and Feng Congde, were getting them, he was told by fellow undergraduates.
Kong refused to join the rush to take US passports, saying that the protest was all about making China a better place. Kong angrily declined to join them. He felt the protests were about standing up for China and enabling socialist modernization for the people—not grabbing passports handed out by a hostile foreign power.
Something else was troubling Kong, which he found hard to articulate. He later said: “I wasn’t fond of the way the forceful way the government spoke. But what they were actually saying was: ‘This is a complex situation. There are certain forces behind the scenes, sowing discord.’ This was the truth.”
Think about that line of agreement between the students and the government: There are certain forces behind the scenes, sowing discord. In other words, some protesters as well as the government knew what was really happening under the surface. But if things were calming down, what changed? How did violence break out? Kong’s answer to that question was cryptic. “When we were little, we watched movies like Guerrillas Sweep The Plain,” he said.
That answer would have meant nothing to a western audience—but it was clear to many Chinese. This was a reference to a classic 1955 Chinese movie in which there are tensions between two groups. They have disagreements but don’t fight. Suddenly, a hidden third body, the Eighth Army, opens fire at both sides and then quickly hides, triggering bloodshed.
And that is what happened. Soldiers and students were sharing food. But on June 3, mysterious thugs, some of whom were said to be from ethnic minorities, triggered a fight in Mu Xi Di, in the west of the city, attacking army buses with petrol bombs and setting them alight, burning the occupants to death. The perpetrators were never found.
Soldiers who managed to escape the burning buses were beaten to death. Other military men arrived and chaotic fighting broke out, with scores of deaths.
This was five kilometers away from Tiananmen Square.
At the Square, in the early hours of June 4, soldiers arrived and called on students to leave. Student leader Feng Congde worked to gauge protesters’ opinions, and concluded that the majority wanted to vacate the space. “So I announced the decision to leave,” he said. Students left peacefully.
Violence did break out, not in the square, but in the streets around it.
One witness, Larry Wortzel, watched protesters attack a military vehicle and noted how well it was organized—someone had definitely trained them. “This was clearly a tactic rehearsed and even practiced among the demonstrators, since it was used in the same way in separate places around the city,” he wrote.
“All verified eyewitness accounts say that the students who remained in the square when troops arrived were allowed to leave peacefully,” said the Washington Post’s Jay Mathews.
Now this is where it gets strange. The next day, a very different story appeared from a few foreign embassies saying that 10,000 people had been killed. This tale said the students in the square had not left. They had stayed and been massacred with machine guns, their bodies pushed into piles with bulldozers, and then incinerated by troops with flamethrowers. This gruesome horror story, supported by no evidence at all, is now viewed by eastern and western historians as entirely fictional.
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LINDSEY GRAHAM: “I go back to S.C. and I’m asking them to send their sons and daughters over to the Middle East. To all the isolationists: I’m not with you, I’m with Israel. God bless Israel. We should move all of our stuff to Israel.”
Keir Starmer: "Muslims are successful, brilliant, and creative people. They have made a huge contribution to Britain's history. They are kind, artistic, and educated. They are the face of modern Britain. They are fantastic people." pic.twitter.com/6IKFLFEdYY
They broke his bones, gouged his eyes out, cut out his tongue and castrated him. He died of a heart attack after being set on fire and dragged himself 50 meters across the floor. https://t.co/ki6hq4u8MO
— David Marshall 🏴 (@Sausageandeggx) June 5, 2026
BREAKING: Iran says negotiations have now fallen apart completely, seizing all messaging channels with the US following new US strikes on commercial vessels in southern Iran and the ongoing Israeli military's invasion of southern Lebanon, per Fars.
So Trump has no path forward without a massive military attack on Iran. The consequences for his legacy and the exposure as Israel’s puppet are all negative. It actually doesn’t matter since any agreement between the US and Iran will be breached by Israel or an Israeli false flag.
Iran will not concede its initial demands.
So that leaves a tactical nuclear strike on Iran by Israel. Or an attack on Egypt. Or an attack on Turkey. Or continue north in Lebanon.
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