This is my first post on C99, and it may well be my last.

I don't even have that much to say, i thought i was completely disillusioned by the end of the 2016 campaign. There was nothing left to shock or disappoint me.

And then I read this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/12/stephen-colber...

There has been much talk about our politicians trying to drum up a hot war with Russia and/or China, but I don't think that is their real goal. A hot war is "fine" if you are doing it to a country that does not have the ability to project force on a global level.