"We have known about this for half a century, and have failed to do anything meaningful about it," said one NOAA researcher. "What's it going to take for us to wake up?"
"It makes no sense to strengthen Saudi Arabia's oil dictator in order to stop Russia's oil dictator," said one critic. "The planet is on fire, and Biden is about to reestablish relations with one of the key arsonists."
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The potential danger of the escalation model applied in a conflict involving the two countries most capable of using nuclear laden ballistic missiles defies imagination.
In addition to an economy held together with the baling-wire of Fed stimulus (that’s ending), both the U.S. and the world are facing a wild spectrum of assaults that could have huge economic impacts.