Edging closer to Armageddon 

“Darkness has called to darkness… where our money talks and multiplies the darkness of a land...” — Robert Lowell

The recent shock to the world of seeing the United States not only assassinating top General Qassem Soleimani of Iran, but also President Donald Trump threatening to bomb 52 locations — including, per his tweet, places of “very high level and important to the Iranian culture” considered world heritage sites — has awakened to many the deep shifts that have now entered the geopolitical power game.  Or perhaps some have just belatedly realized the aggressiveness with which the US will pursue its interests, with an entirely different standard of appropriateness and proportionality from the rest of the world.