On The Menu For The Remainder Of 2022: War, Pestilence, Famine

Enjoy this summer while you can, because global events will soon escalate to an even more alarming level.  Needless to say, if 2022 ended right now it would be remembered for a lot of really bad things.  Prior to this year, we didn't have a war in Ukraine, nobody was talking about monkeypox, inflation was a relatively minor concern, food riots weren't erupting in poor countries, and we weren't facing the prospect of a very painful recession.  

So much has happened in the last six months, but I have a feeling that the next six months are going to be even crazier.

 

How could that be possible?

Well, how about another major war?  On Thursday, Yair Lapid and Joe Biden signed "a joint pledge" that expressed their shared intention to do whatever is necessary to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

During a joint appearance following the signing, Biden made the position of the U.S. government very clear...

Biden said Iran has an opportunity to accept the agreement that is before them. "If they don't, we made absolutely clear: we will not, let me say it again, we will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon."

Of course U.S. officials have been saying similar things for a long time.

But now the IAEA has officially announced that Iran "possesses enough fissile material to construct a nuclear bomb", and so the time to put up or shut up is here. READ MORE