It is NOT 85 seconds to midnight.

It is 60 seconds to midnight.

In a week: Russian energy ascendant despite Ukraine invasion, because US and Israel attacked Iran — who closed the Strait of Hormuz — limiting fuel exports to Asia.

In a month: New Start is over. Nuclear testing will start again, ASAP. Bunker buster, suitcase, low-yield, and mini-nukes are going to be tested. Then deployed. Will MAD theory keep preserving détente?

In 2 months: Venezuela "liberated." Deals made. Maduro captured.

In 6 months: Domestic crackdowns. Authoritarianism, posturing, threatening, criminality.

In just over a year: Bolsonaro and Duterte and Yoon captured, imprisoned, tried, and convicted*. For official acts. In the end, despite the charge, for betraying their nations and people. For treason.

*Duterte just had his charges confirmed.

Gaza, Yemen, Sudan. All bleed profusely.

G7 nations dither, posture, and state.

Bolsonaro, Yoon, Duterte, Maduro. Next, Netanyahu? Like Louis XVI, would Trump fall?

International order is a mental disorder.

They, the US administration, are scrambling. Desperately, desiring to Wag the Dog. Its not working. The dog's dead. The dog died when "No Kings" & "Fuck ICE" became Americas rallying cry. "Free Palestine", "Palestine Action", a keffiyeh, sees you bound, gagged or shot. The 0.01% holding all the cards. See also:

Oh, and the Jeffery Epstein-didn't-kill-himself files.

Cities in ten countries are burning. Iran, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Cyprus. Add Russia, Ukraine, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Congo. With flare ups in Central and South Asia, Taiwan, and South America. So, too, do the vice wars rage. Drugs, racketeering, humans, counterfeits.

It's dubbed "World War" only after.

Loan sharking has taken a downturn. Banks generally take clients for extortion.

This timeline crashes. Few will survive.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists should reset the Doomsday Clock.

It is 60 seconds to midnight.