This could well happen with a financial collapse of great magnitude because there would be tremendous political turmoil. The consequences and the failure of government officials and institutions would be massive and shocking. It is in such situations that political turmoil comes to a boil and almost anything can happen including massive civil unrest necessitating martial law. The question really will be determined by the extraterrestrials as to how badly they want to see humanity suffer at this particular point in time. If they keep the system going, they can keep milking the cow. If they kill the cow, that game will have to stop for a while and they will not gain as great a reward siphoning money away from a much, much smaller pool of surviving investors. So, in some respects, the severity of the financial downturn will be a harbinger of a worsening globally on many fronts that could well include human annihilation at the peak.
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