Since the economic (T.A.R.P.) meltdown of 2008, American oligarchs have been hedging their bets — funding stink tanks to formulate big, rational, intellectual plans to deal with the American Imperial Collapse. Problem is, they are incapable of following any of these plans. Because? Stupid wars-4-Israel and the crushing debt they’ve caused. This is a business plan fraught with peril! So, you get a lot of nonsense like Mattis blathering, “It’s all Putin’s fault!” Sad. Pathetic, really. Watching an empire expire.