America’s TOS was supposed to have addressed this, no not the alcoholism the

checks & balances on power

Otherwise you get a pyramid a barfly can climb to draw your maps and shoehorn his way into your textbooks with half-hearted quips.

Church the lurch

secured BP their first oilfield in the Middle East to build the world’s largest refinery on the gulf and fuel British imperial might from the 1920’s to 40’s.

By the time an art-school dropout capitalizes on the schadenfreude of that Versailles fiasco the fix is in.

Dealers aren’t surprised by 3am texts. They expect you to want more. Financing war between empires is a

captive market

it was only a matter of time.

Although it didn’t hurt that Germany’s central bank head was very close to Britain’s central banking baron.

That would be a Mr. Montagu Norman, the self-described

currency dictator of Europe

Every now and then an asshole is stupid enough to go on record for the sake of vanity and a Time magazine cover and the world is offered a glimpse into the higher echelons of inbred power.