Well, "Fuck the EU" is easy, pretty much mission accomplished at this point. But "Fuck Russia and China and Brazil" may be more than even the mighty hegemon can muster the biggest military in history to enforce.

And all the rallying rhetoric power of "Freeeduuum" has pretty much run out of gas, thanks to a century of repeatedly backing the cruellest dictators around to keep the Korpo-koffers overflowing.

The american military must be apoplectic with frustration, 0-man's speechwriters scraping the Thesaurus for more Orwellian contortions.

Once again one shudders to wonder how McCain/Palin would have played these hands.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty