Among my mottos when I was running businesses was: in a crisis, overcommunicate.

That’s what I’m doing now. For we are in a crisis.

As you will see in this must-read (and easily read) tocsin from Dean Blundell, America seems to have bumbled into, worse than a horrific mistake, an existential mess.

Knowing too little about a topic to opine, one must decide whom to trust. These days I trust Paul Krugman, Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Reich, and Blundell, among others. Here’s Blundell’s take on our present predicament:

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedThis isn’t about being anti-American. This is about the catastrophic danger of an incompetent, authoritarian regime dragging the world’s most powerful military into a conflict it hasn’t planned for, can’t sustain, and may not survive intact.

Iran is executing a textbook asymmetric warfare campaign. Europe is cutting the cord on American security guarantees. And the people running the Pentagon think Jesus is coming back to sort it all out.

Spread the word. Buckle up.