For those who care, a quick status check on the USA; it's quite precarious: A Stress Test For A Straining Superpower Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org, https://buchanan.org/blog/stress-test-of-a-straining-superpower-138961 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stress-test-straining-superpower ... From the protests, riots, rampages and statue-smashing of the last two months, it is apparent that millions of Americans detest our history and heroes. Though nowhere in recorded time have 42 million people of African descent achieved the measures of freedom and prosperity they have in the USA, we are daily admonished that ours is a rotten and sick society whose every institution is shot through with “systemic racism.” ...