I’d make a more realistic one. Let’s say that Iran, Syria and Russia get ISIS on the run, and they finally leave Syria. Where exactly will they go? Iraq or Saudi Arabia. In either case, they are dumping ISIS back onto the US and it’ll trigger some 50,000 men deployment back into either....by Feb of 2016. ISIS will be the US problem then....completely.
the petrodollar has become the jesus nut of American capitalism. Putin knows this and he been positioning himself to undo that nut for years-the gazprom deal with China, the precious metal stockpiles, the leverage over Europe. He has recently introduced legislation that eliminates the dollar from trade between the commonwealth of independent states. China is complicit and has already started dumping dollar denominated assets as has Russia. His endgame is clear to me. He’s going after the petrodollar and us with it and there are a lot of other nations that will happily join him in this.