The vision of the US as a giant bank served by a giant military and kept functioning by lots of poor people on bikes and in cars delivering food to the bankers and their adjuncts before returning to their rentals to enjoy crappy imported goods manufactured by the bankers' foreign clients has, well, failed to inspire.
@thejackhopkins This ignores the fact that that region was used to flow German tanks and troops through not that long ago. Resulting in the death of an estimated 25 million Russians.