As will I, but I don't know that I expect the US to be a major player in the likely upcoming round of dueling hegemonies. I think it depends a lot on what happe

As will I, but I don't know that I expect the US to be a major player in the likely upcoming round of dueling hegemonies. I think it depends a lot on what happens here over the next couple of decades, and very little of what has happened here over the last couple of decades encourages me to optimism on that score. Maybe I'll feel better when the current gerontocracy starts dying off at last. They can't possibly hold on that much longer. Or so at least I'd like to hope...but there, too, so much depends on exactly who ascends to replace them, and that's contingent on too many things for me to feel confident about any prediction I might make.