Thank you, Martin, for this educative analysis. Reading it today, Feb24, seems a little strange, as you posted it on Feb 14.

Even so, your posting here explains a lot, and seems quite helpful in understanding the worldwide dynamics that presently move, pangeia-like, at glacial pace while our online understanding of it all seems to zip around the worldwideweb as if we know what the hell we were talking about.

Some of us do know what we're talking about. Apparently you are one of them. Thanks for sharing your perspective here on Medium.

Keep up the good work. It definitely helps me to see, as Paul Harvey always said, "the rest of the story."