[Skybird]

When an aircraft at high altitude runs out of fuel, there are only two options, both of wich result in the same outcome.

Either you refuse to accept your status, try to hold altitude no matter what, by that you become slow, air finally stops flowing over the wings, you stall and fall down in an uncontrolled way, nose first.

Or you start looking for a place to conduct a controlled emergency landing, start to glide, trading altitude for sufficient speed to prevent stall, and that way go down - but hopefully without crashing, but doing a rough landing.

But anyway - down your way goes, this or that way, in both cases. America's current belief that it just can carry on like it always did, and that the old familiar ways will keep the plane in ther air, are illusory this time. It is a major turning point in American (and global) history, the end of a taken-for-granted part of American self-description. American optimism will not pull the car out of the mug this time, like it did so moften before. I do not have the impression that much of America already has fully realised the full historic dimension of this turning point. America will either fundamentally change - or break.

What current politicians in America do is to pull the stick to the max to not lose altitude, and making the people believe that one can keep altitude and speed with empty tanks by just imagining that there will be a magical in-flight fuel-up by magical fairy-tanker-flight 001 who does not even charge you for the costs of the magical fuel.

The AOA is becoming steeper and steeper, and the airspeed drops and drops further. Guess how that stunt necessarily must end.

One does not need to have a academical degree in economics in order to forsee the future. And economics is no science anyway.