Clearer by the day...

It is conceivable that the U.S. will suffer some
minor crash and pull back from all of these
disastrous policies and stabilize its Empire at a
lower position of global power. I doubt it can be
done. The problems are so interdependent and
extreme now that it seems pretty clear that the
System is totally corrupt – "rotten" – at the
top, very much like the Soviet System by the
1980's. Small crises and crashes are likely to
accelerate into a Great Crash that can only be
dealt with by getting out of The System in some
way.

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