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We're now well into "Fall of the Roman Empire" territory not just in the U.S. but around the world. As was famously written, "The fall of the Roman Empire was not an event, it was a process."

And the lesson history teaches in this regard is that once the stable patterns are thrown out of equilibrium, the only predictable aspects are escalating sequences of action/reaction chaotic events.

There are many shoes left to drop in multiple directions, in ways impossible for anybody to foresee, except that they are likely to be increasingly disruptive in ways that impact all sides. Such events that are very unlikely in stable societies are far more likely in unstable ones such as where we find ourselves now.

In other words: "You ain't seen nuthin' yet."