[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "FRiend, if the coming CIA offensive is so reprehensible that Nuland quit rather than signing off on it, we are indeed in deep crap now."

That is an interesting take. A different take would be that things are getting out of manageable hands, and the "plausible deniability" of time passing will be relied upon to make some kind of....

As to being in "deep crap now," the rapidly rising national debt coupled to many states' and municipalities' rapidly rising debts is deep AND rising crap.

Herb Stein said that which cannot continue will stop.

[kabar]

Biden, Scholz, Macron, Sunak, Meloni, etc. are looking for some face-saving way to exit the Ukraine War. But they keep doubling down on stupid by escalating the rhetoric including the possibility of sending NATO troops to Ukraine. Over the past few weeks the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, and others have signed ten year bilateral security agreements with Ukraine.

My biggest concern is a "false flag" operation to provide the direct involvement of NATO in the war. Gulf of Tonkin redux. Or France or some other NATO country could just send their troops in outside of NATO.