Red, There is such an increase of nationalism (Brexit-Germany neo nazis-Hungary-America 1st-Poland) that hearing your cosmopolitan viewpoint is practically rare. Its like a bridge cracking prior to a collapse.

Allegheny is a region like the Catskills and geologically part of the most ancient mountain chain on Earth, now worn down to a stub, that stretches all the way to Scotland. I grew up in those olde hills.

The trump withdrawl from Afghanistan has become a titanic ship of state sinking and only the crew is rescued. However for 1,000's of years defeat is always inevitable for invaders.