Head For The Bunkers?

In August 2015, I tweeted that if Donald Trump were to be elected President of the United States, we would have to ‘head for the bunkers.’
A Trump presidency was considered highly unlikely back then; but here we are. And while heading for the bunkers might not be the most appropriate response (yet), where we are is undoubtedly a more dangerous world.
Nearly two years ago, former US National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that, ‘as we look around the world, we encounter upheaval and conflict.’ As Kissinger observed at the time, ‘the United States has not faced a more diverse and complex array of crises since the end of the Second World War.’
And what seemed true from the perspective of Washington, DC, was doubly so from a European perspective. To put it plainly, Europe feels as though it were surrounded by a ring of fire, from the revisionist and revanchist Russia in the east, to the multiple meltdowns in the Middle East and North Africa in the south.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Dec 16, 2016.