What tangled webs we weave.

Though any prognostications of the future have to take into account the impending implosion of the West. It is about where the Soviet Union was, in early 91. Though multiplied many times.

Nato is not going to survive losing Ukraine, as it is saddled with a corrupt, bitter, basically lawless rump state, while Russia absorbs and starts rebuilding much of the rest.

Nor will the EU survive the mechanized pitchforks and torches.

The US has something like 10 trillion of debt coming due this year, of which the Fed will likely have to buy much of. Debt doesn't matter, until it does. As we vote for captain of the Titanic.

Whatever lessons humanity and the rest of the world take from this, at least they will have a clear example of where unbridled corruption and reality denying propaganda and delusion leads to.

When the scab is peeled away, the wound is still a long ways from being healed, but it is hopefully a step in the right direction.