As the suit wryly noted, the memo then went on to speculate that "probably there are other things it's useful to do with a sovereign country too." Skip advertAs The Guardian noted that same year, that anxiety wasn't limited to global health crises. "They say things like, 'In times of geopolitical pressure, New Zealand is a cool place to be because it's farther away.'" "Yet here they were, asking a Marxist media theorist for advice on where and how to configure their doomsday bunkers." Billionaire bunkers and 'soft succession' As The Nation's Jeet Heer noted in the wake of the Nauru revelations, this tendency toward ultra-wealthy prepper-ism isn't simply about apocalyptic paranoia.

Source: CNN July 29, 2023 12:09 UTC