Do we really want to get down in the mud and wrestle with the Russian Bear right now? I think the chances of us intervening in this are pretty much nil. We also have the “We Are The World” Chinee to worry about. They have been acting downright surly, considering they’re hosting the olympics, which most of us are essentially boycotting, IINM.
I don’t know if I can go as far as calling us bankrupt, but you may be right. Like the brittle shell that was the former USSR the air may be let out of our balloon quite suddenly.
Course, if we ARE bankrupt, and we write off all the debts we owe “the planet” everybody would go down in a heap real quick.
Agree ichabod. See other posts on the thread about the Bear, think we must sit out and do some serious planning, get a hell of a lot more domestic energy cranked up and recover economically a bit. On economy we are deflating and will see temporary depressionary conditions for a short time. Greed in Washington cut too deep along with fighting two battlefields simealtanously. We’re going to have to clean our own house out first and our enemies know it.
The match is now. It's fish or cut bait time.
I predict we whine and cut bait.