With what’s currently happening around the world, we felt it was necessary to give you the inside scoop on how rich people prepare for war. You might want to keep this article on hand.
We’ve had WW I and WW II. The question of World War III is not that of an IF, but a WHEN!
And in the last couple of years, there’s been this feeling floating in the air of political, economic, and social unrest.
Somebody screws up. A nuke goes out flying, and the recipient retaliates. Sirens go off… Martial Law is in place.
All of a sudden, borders shut down, the stock exchanges shut down, and whatever you had in savings in the bank is now owned by the state for the war effort.
A can of sardines and a roll of toilet paper now cost more than the new iPhone.
Everybody thinks they’ll do well or be able to figure it out in times of societal collapse but
The worst time to develop a game plan is during a catastrophe!
Billionaires and millionaires know this and have already started making preparations to increase their odds of survival.
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Multiple citizenships through international investments
Did you know rich people have multiple passports and you can actually buy citizenship?
Things go down hard. You don’t have access to your financial services, and you need to get yourself and your family out of the country. Where do you go?
In times of crisis, citizens are allowed to go “back home”, meaning to places where they hold citizenship, even in times of martial law.
It’s called repatriation.
This is just one of the reasons that in the past two decades, the super-rich have been buying up citizenships through investor or golden visa programs.
You invest between 500,000 and 5 million dollars in a country, and they’ll make you a citizen.
You can own land, have bank accounts, and have cash-flowing investments that take care of you.
Because your country is at war, your currency is becoming worthless. One thing is for certain: you don’t hold onto cash during wartime.
Don’t take it from us; here’s a direct quote from Warren Buffett:
“The one thing you can be quite sure of is that if we went into some very major war, the value of money would go down—that’s happened in virtually every war that I’m aware of. The last thing you’d want to do is hold money during a war”.
So you need two things:
- Purchase power: This is the reason rich people earn in more than one currency.
- Uncorrelated earnings – meaning the rental properties and your chain of hair salons aren’t bringing you any new money, so you need to get paid somewhere else.
So, how do rich people prepare in the face of war? There are five big spots where billionaires park their investments:
- Europe: Switzerland, Luxembourg, or Portugal
- Mexico: If the US is a target, you want to be able to escape quickly. The more you go south, the better and cheaper life gets.
- Dubai: Zero taxes + access points towards Asia if needed.
- Australia or New Zealand: Islands usually perform well in most catastrophes; more on that in a second
- Singapore: Access to Asian markets without giving most of your money to the Chinese communist party… at least that’s the case while I’m still making this video.
Investing abroad could literally be the thing that allows you and your family to flee and support yourselves as far from the conflict as you can.
Very important is how fast you can get your family to a safe haven.
All of a sudden, the helicopters and private jets start to make a lot more sense, doesn’t it?
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Helicopters, Jets, and Motorcycles
The last place you want to be while a full-on war is happening is stuck in traffic in the middle of an important city.
Drop everything, grab your kids and 1 or 2 things of sentimental value alongside your documents, and head for the helipad.
Ideally, you want to get to the private airport as quickly as possible.
In times of war, motorcycles are a superior form of transport over cars because of how agile they can be.
Watching every horror movie, there’s the same long line of cars abandoned at the highway exit.
In fact, in times of war, the main airports get run over, and usually, the only way to get out is through small independent airports operated privately.
The super-rich actually have war insurance, where they pay private security firms a yearly retainer to have priority access to emergency evacuation infrastructure, where they get you out of there as quickly as possible.
Actually, most of the things that seem like opulent splurges of the rich double-down emergency facilities. If you want to learn how the rich travel, we covered everything in this article.
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Yachts and Superyachts
People love poking fun at the super-rich for spending hundreds of millions of dollars to purchase these massive liabilities until they realize they’re escape pods where you can fit your entire family.
If the mainland becomes toxic, you just get on your boat and sail away.
They have all the facilities of a 5-star hotel, water filtration, solar and satellite connections, and an abundance of fish for nutrition.
Technically, you can survive at sea forever, or at least until you get somewhere safe.
Although they’re expensive to run, think of the superyacht as a home that you can take with you wherever you go and not have to leave everything behind.
Your family is already familiar with the layout, and it will make the mental toll of going through a war more bearable.
But if you could go anywhere, where would you have the highest chance of survival?
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Buying islands or land in New Zealand
If you’ve ever played the game Plague, you know the value of islands in a pandemic or biological war.
This is why most billionaires purchase islands for themselves.
- Why did the tech elite of Silicon Valley purchase islands in Hawaii?
- Why do British billionaires own islands around the world?
- Why are some of the richest people in the world buying land and homes in New Zealand?
Going fully off the grid, self-sustaining, water purification, electric batteries, diesel generators, and solar roofs are all available for purchase.
Sure, they might be expensive to make habitable and sustainable long term, but once you do, are you stranded on an island escaping war… Or have you just arrived in paradise, away from it all? A proper place to wait it all out is on every rich person’s list when it comes to preparing for war.
How you mentally deal with the situation and the scarring it has on your psyche and your family is one of the most important things to consider, which brings us to the next one:
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Pique mental and physical shape
What if you had only one opportunity to get out, but you pulled a Velma and went blind as a bat because you lost your glasses?
Rich people are getting Lasik surgery, knee replacement surgery, and taking supplements to make sure they’re in their best physical shape possible.
As hilarious as it may be, we’ve heard of people taking archery and fencing lessons just in case.
Not just because there might be a zombie apocalypse or a war coming in, but the rationale is that if you can afford it, why risk it being a liability in a life-or-death situation?
And it’s not just physical. The mental tool is huge.
All the weapons in the shelter won’t do you any good if you freeze at a crucial moment.
Your family relies on your ability to make smart choices in the moment, so people who are mentally strong have an edge over everyone else.
Being able to process and navigate difficult situations is a massive asset in both business and life, and survival in war situations is more of a mental game than most people realize.
It might be a long shot, but having a game plan ahead, having a reason to keep going, and having someone remind you that there’s more to life than the moment is a big deal.
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Cooperation with other billionaires
Survival is a team sport, and who you know matters more than how much money you have.
While researching this topic, we found a paper that looked at the death toll of both world wars separated by wealth classes in Europe.
No surprise there; the rich endured fewer deaths per family than the poor.
What’s even more interesting is that the white-collar rich from the city outlived the rich from the countryside by a massive margin.
Although that might sound counterintuitive, the aristocrats in the big cities worked together to get themselves out of messy situations, while the rich from the countryside were all alone and lacked direct connections to influential decision-makers, so when push came to shove, their wealth didn’t matter as much.
Rich people prepare for war by pulling resources in moments of crisis. Now you understand why it pays to have friends who can provide valuable access.
Take a moment to think of your current friend group. In the case of a catastrophe, who could you rely on, and what would be your game plan?
Send them this article so they can get ready as well.
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Privileged information access
Every time something big is about to happen, there’s a small group of privileged people who find out ahead of everyone else.
Just like Nancy Pelosi does with stocks, there’s a market for information.
The way rich people prepare for not just war, but really any status-quo-changing event is by acting on privileged information.
The people who escaped Germany in the Second World War were the ones who moved at the first signs of danger.
Rich people do the same; they’re always moving.
Think about the last pandemic and how the rich moved faster than everyone the moment COVID broke out in China. Those islands and holiday homes came in handy when the world was in lockdown.
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Luxury bunkers with air and water filtration
With the assets you have on hand right now, how long could you wait it out?
Months? Weeks? Days? There’s a market for doomsday prep.
Even more so now in the geek tech community, who’ve been playing survival games for years and have recently started buying gear. They’re called brogrammers.
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Outside of the small fry, the rich are actually digging hard at this.
This means they’re creating habitable bunkers deep within the ground where their plan is to just way out for years, whatever calamity might strike.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman told The New Yorker that he estimated that more than 50% of his “fellow Silicon Valley billionaires” have acquired some kind of doomsday hideaway spot in the US or elsewhere in the world.
These aren’t cheap either, with prices going from $250,000 all the way up to the millions.
There are even underground condos where you can buy an apartment for you and your family to wait out whatever’s happening outside.
Air filtration, water from deep inside the ground, solar and manually powered tools, micro gardens with artificial light, and even entertainment rooms.
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Private army
In case of war or apocalypse, you will need protection, but how can you be sure that the moment all hell breaks loose, the army won’t throw you out of the bunker and take it for themselves?
This was actually one of the things debated by the rich behind closed doors last year at Heretic Miami.
The short answer to the military dilemma of the rich lies in the skin in the game.
You provide the same level of comfort to the families of the soldiers you hire on your dime.
Sure, there’s separation, meaning you have your own private area, but they’re taken care of as well. This should buy you some time, and if things go really bad, you can go into lockdown mode and do it on your own.
This might sound hilarious, but if you’re unable to deploy your resources effectively, you’re just building someone else’s inventory!
Because they’ll just come in and take it.
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Gold, Art, Bitcoin, and anything valuable they can carry
No, this isn’t a segment sponsored by Masterworks. Chill out.
The truth is that you need to be able to transport value across time and space.
Since war is hyperinflationary, your paper money is worthless, so you need real stores of value.
This is actually the main purpose of jewelry. You have to put the family’s savings on your body and run with it.
Gold, jewelry, or valuable art have been historically used as stores of value in times of war.
It’s the first time we have a digital currency disassociated from any other currency that could provide the function of both a store of value and commerce.
We’re not saying crypto is your safe haven, but if on the other end of where you’re going, there’s someone willing to trade you goods and services for something that fits on a USB stick or even better than you can hold in your mind, there is value to it.
In times of war, stores of value like gold, silver, and, theoretically, Bitcoin will do really well.
If you’re more traditional, you go for the metals.
If you’re more digitally native, you go for the digital gold that is Bitcoin.
We’re not advising anyone to sell their homes and go all in on either, but it might be wise to look at it as an insurance instrument.
If things go south, you take it with you. If things go well, you might have an appreciating asset limited by scarcity.
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Active War Supply Chain
Some businesses make their money in wartime. Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Phillips 66, BP, and Sinopec, and the major weapon manufacturers, such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and BAE Systems, all see jumps in revenue during wartime.
They also happen to be some of the biggest donors behind your favorite politicians, but we’ll save that for another article.
The military, in and of itself, does not make money. Military forces cost exorbitant amounts of money to operate. That money comes from taxpayers.
The government prints money or cuts deals with corporations to support the war effort.
Manufacturing companies usually do really well in times of war because they can simply switch their assembly lines to military goods.
- Volkswagen made tanks.
- Hugo Boss made the clothes.
- Cutlery manufacturers make helmets. And the list goes on.
And before you say it’s just a German thing, know that Ford provided them with vehicle and war production services.
It is well documented that Henry Ford was an open Nazi supporter and virulent anti-Semite.
Businesses involved in the recent IRAQ war split $138 billion among them.
The same thing is happening with Ukraine and probably with the situation in the Middle East.
If you want to make money during times of war, look at the supply chain and figure out where you can fit in. By the way, the War Dogs movie is an excellent depiction of what’s actually happening.
When rich people want to make money from wars, they prepare their investments in the essential aspects of its logistics.
But before you do that, know there are ways to make money without supporting the war. Here’s one:
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Reconstruction business
After every war ends, there’s a period of reconstruction. The world needs to be rebuilt.
Some of the richest people in the world have the money, the tools, and the expertise required to rebuild better than before. – or at least faster.
Government-friendly companies usually get billion-dollar contracts to help with the reconstruction effort.
Kellogg, Brown & Root, the subsidiary of Halliburton, got $2.3 billion to help with the post-Iraq and Afghan wars.
Bechtel Group has 1.3 billion, and you can look up the rest yourself because the list is long.
The thing that kind of rubs us the wrong way when looking at it is the double dipping of the same organizations.
Here’s an example: BlackRock, the largest hedge fund in the US, is the one that financed the war in Ukraine.
They’re the largest owners of the largest weapons manufacturers in the US. So they make money when there’s war.
Well… A couple of weeks ago, they struck a reconstruction deal with Ukraine, where they’re lending money to the government as long as they’re the ones who get to rebuild.
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Guns and ammo
Not only are people who are investors in weapons manufacturing making money during the war, but the appetite for gun acquisitions skyrockets with every newsflash on TV.
People get scared, so they buy more.
In this case, rich people prepare for war just like everyone else: they stock up on as much of it as possible.
They buy high-end, they armor their cars, they wire their properties, and they have 24/7 security. They might not be the ones to pull the trigger, but they have the funds to give the green light.
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Satellite communications and private internet
Those who are not off the grid depend on the grid’s ability to provide. One hit and the grid is over.
- What do you do when the lights don’t turn back on?
- What do you do when there’s no signal on your phone?
- What do you do when you can no longer watch TV?
That’s where direct satellite technology comes into play, and why – like him or not – Elon’s Starlink actually changes the game.
I’m not sure if you know this, but there are 4550 satellites in orbit. SpaceX owns by far the largest number of satellites.
Number of satellites owned by Operator
To put things into perspective, SpaceX has 12 times more satellites than all of China has.
In a period of conflict, those who can maintain their communications infrastructure usually win.
Rich billionaires rely on these kinds of infrastructure projects to maintain their influence and protect their wealth. Starlink might seem expensive until you need it.
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Humanity pods in space or on other planets
That’s right. Rich people prepare for war but also for extinction-level events.
That’s the entire purpose of Elon’s Mars project, to have a second home for humanity if nuclear war or the end of humanity even happens.
Jeff Bezos’ blue origin tries to do the same and build space-floating countries, where basically people survive on structures much bigger than the International Space Station.
Richard Branson wants to open a hotel in space next year.
When the entire planet is on the verge of total collapse, the rich will go to space.
It’s a horrible thing to think about, but people spend their entire lives saying that money doesn’t buy happiness when in times of crisis it becomes obvious that money gives you a shot at escaping misery!
And for those of you still reading, we saved a little bonus for the end:
Bonus
The media is not your friend
In the last couple of days, it has become obvious that mainstream media is not your friend. They have their agendas; they take sides and twist the narrative to support the side they’re on.
The beauty of technology is that it gives both sides a voice.
It’s easy to see just how much pain and suffering both parties are inflicting on the innocent, while those responsible for that suffering are left untouched.
Although we tried to do a slightly lighthearted piece today, the last couple of days shook us to the core and made us take a personal vow to never allow our children and family to experience anything remotely close to the trauma and suffering that comes with war.
We hope the same for you – the people following our content. Stay safe. Tell the people you know you love them, and never allow hatred to guide your actions.
This is how rich people prepare for World War III. We hope it stays just that: preparations. But just in case, make a plan and be ready. See you next time!
