BND report on shifting power constellations

[Peter Presland]

...the USA as the wounded tiger will be even more dangerous in its death throws than today - willing IMO even to go Nuclear.

I agree it will become even more exterminatory in its desperation: I tend to think along the lines of "plagues" - but you could well be right. God help our children and grandchildren. No one else will.

That pretty much sums up how I see things too. Impossible to divine the detail but a few things are pretty clear. First among them is the overwhelming global dominance of US military/surveillance capabilities. In a world approaching a convergence apogee of population growth, climate change, ecological destruction and peak 'just about everything' - especially oil, the US is not going to relinquish that dominance without using it to its maximum first - let alone with ANY grace whatsoever if its doctrines, deceptions, propaganda and tedious self-serving political rhetoric are anything to go by. The world and its dog will continue to be required to see things the US/NATO way - or else. I have grave fears that we are on the cusp of becoming involved in a whole raft of 'or-elses'.