Apologies for the typos today, I've had an eye exam with pupils dilated so I'm not exactly seeing straight!

Energy is what will cut down on all nations military adventurism. The one true blessing of the energy crisis is that it won't make distinctions between industries that must die.

I really believe the ability to foresee this is generational. I know of very few boomers who have even considered the possibility of the US military running out of gas. Yet, boomer political leaders know it full well, and have been conducting foreign policy accordingly, hence the era of wars for oil.

Iraq won't be the last, either. There are other energy giants like Mexico, Venezuela, Nigeria, etc. and all those nations do not currently kow tow to the US.

We'll see quite a bit more of that in the very near future, and the great irony of it all is--the wars for oil will run the world out of oil faster than converting an imperial superpower military industrial economy (which is what the US is and has been since the late 19th century) to a peacetime green economy will, and cost humanity far, far more than the peaceful conversion to a sustainable mixed economy, with both socialized/nationalized industries and private industries that aren't based upon consumer capitalism of the past.

The victory of imperial consumer capitalism over communism and mixed socialism/sustainable capitalism in the 1980s hasn't been all it's cracked up to be for the people of the planet or the planet.

In fact, from the way it is looking now, it looks like the 1980s was already too late to do anything to pull back from the brink of climate change.