And there must be many more jig-saw pieces in the chaos of conflicting aims. Someone else has brought up:

The Other 'War' here, on drugs: as noted, a large source of funds for terrorists worldwide, due to our massive preoccupation with punishment - already escalated to the Draconian level. Muricans will pay (obviously) the nearly infinite amounts demanded by the artificial scarcity - to obtain even that chimerical relief from the normal environment.

Given such internal contradictions (and supply/demand for drugs, is just one) and the vast unknowns next - about how skillfully (or not) are the international approaches made (?) I think it's a pretty safe call:

Nobody anywhere, has the foggiest idea what the next few months might bring us all. Since *some retaliation* is simply mandated: we'd best all hope for a huge slice of luck in next machinations, particularly in finding something resembling "just punishment" (?) upon a number of bin-L cells.

Because if this soon slips from growing frustration into blind vengeance...



A.