There are locusts in Africa, stinkbugs in Turkey, Covid-19 most everywhere, and saber rattling in the South China Sea. All of these happening now.
I'm hearing the hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Don't they sound a bit closer than normal?
It's Sir Austen Chamberlain's supposedly Chinese ironic curse in action: "May you live in interesting times." Sadly, we do.
