Yeah, way more scattered thoughts

I remember watching from the luxury of a ski condo at Whistler BC as Iraq spiralled into looting.. same can easily happen

They are a deep culture, a sense of place perhaps, but the rifts can be far more fractured than we know. 

Unwinding blowback with blowback

Isreal gets what it wants, we waste are missiles
Russia has no need to quit if we don't have bombs
China takes the island? 

There is the hormuz question. Makes you think Venezuala oil was the primer to cover the closure. 

I always wondered why assasination wasn't the standard rather than war.