Thanks for another fascinating session and the simultaneous NO session results! Things do certainly feel like they're accelerating lately and this has already been a strange year in a number of ways.
I think this latest show of force in Syria really does show how desperate the elites are (not to mention pathetic and incompetent) to maintain control in the face of a coming reality that they can't stop or control. Thinking about this part:
(L) That's why they passed that gargantuan military spending bill. Problem is, the US doesn't have the infrastructure or skilled workers for it anymore.
If the US military industrial complex is as corrupt and incompetent as it appears to be, then throwing more money at it won't fix the problem either; like they could put another $1 Trillion into the F-35 and that plane would still be a piece of garbage, because more money never solves incompetence and corruption.
I also think at this point that Russia (and probably China to some degree) has the west so outmaneuvered and in my mind quite possibly outgunned, that there won't be a nuclear war--that is, the psychopath elites in the US don't even have the power left to overturn the proverbial chess board. They've been failing for years, their failures are getting more and more spectacular, and they aren't (and probably can't) change their tactics--I'm confident that they can make quite a mess on their way out, but I don't think they have many options left, and all the roads (that I can see at least) for them right now lead to failure.
Interesting times indeed!