What comes next?

If you're like me, and bought groceries or gas recently, or ate in a fast food restaurant, you have to wonder when the spiraling prices for each will eventually calm down, right?

I think most of us know why things are the way they are.  And there does not seem to be any chance the inflation of prices in all of those categories will reach a more comfortable pattern, particularly since our country has entered into a war with Iran.

In my part of the country gas is now about a full dollar higher than it was before the conflict began.  The price of goods continues to escalate, because it costs more to ship them from place to place.  Even the US Postal Service is going to start adding a fuel surcharge to its package delivery fees.  

The administration claims that we're negotiating, but the regime in Tehran says that no discussions are taking place.  There are claims we're nearly finished there, having carried out our objective, but the US is moving more and more ground troops into the region.  One day we're claiming we'll destroy oil and gas refineries, which would cripple the global markets for both energy sources, and the next we're going to destroy infrastructure like water purification plants, which is an international war crime.

Now our commander-in-chief is making noise about removing all of our troops stationed in Germany, which is one of the primary NATO forces in Europe.  And that ballroom that keeps being bandied about?  Supposedly it's a cover for some sort of "super bunker" that will exist underground beneath it, to ensure the safety of the President and his family and whomever else is deemed worthy of its protection.

Dizzying, especially when one realizes that it's almost impossible to separate the truth from the other drivel.

Hang on, it's gonna be bumpy for a while yet.