I always want to know the plain facts, even if distressing. I want to know the diagnosis, with all its ugliness, rather than fuzzy pink lies.
I want justice and truth served, ASAP. Whatever the cost, either nationally or personally. It may be the just the bitter medicine that is needed. As an herbalist, I know that the herbs needed for sickness, especially fever and infection and to eliminate toxins, are always bitter. The herbs to build strength are mild tasting. And before strength can be built up, the toxins and infection need to be eliminated.
*sigh*
Okay, you asked for it.
We have little industrial base.
We have a zillion dollars in entitlements of one stripe or another.
In classic Kleptocratic fashion, that money will initially be stolen from taxpayers.
We will soon have hyper-inflation.
The domestic taxpayers will start to balk.
The entitlement recipients will revolt if their rice-bowls aren’t filled for them, and will need to be kept otherwise busy.
In classic a Kleptocracy the solution is to invade the neighbors and steal their resources and means of production.
When the neighbors are bled dry, invade their neighbors.
At some point, someone across the sea takes an interest.
The someone across the sea has little choice but to stop this expansionism before it reaches their own borders.
A no-holds-barred war starts.
It ends only when the will of one side or the other is broken.
Winner occupies the resulting gravel pit.
Now go back and re-read that and tell me if I am talking about 1930s Germany or modern America...