Orlov: Placing The USA On A Collapse Continuum Authored by Dmitry Orlov via The Unz Review, The West is rotting!Yes, maybe, but what a nice smell… Old Soviet joke The word ‘catastrophe‘ has several meanings, but in its original meaning in Greek the word means a “sudden downturn” (in Greek katastrophē ‘overturning, sudden turn,’ from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’). As …