Quote from d08:
It might not be full scale war but in your scenario there's plenty of motivation on other sides to cause serious consequences. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who has studied scenarios such as this, your view is a very naive and primitive one where the other side simply accepts the situation - hardly how things go in reality.
Good point when things are still stable, let chaos break out and everything is on the table.
Rennick Alan Poe out

This does put a new paint job on things..under this projection the tables will turn in 10 years and we can demand higher interest rates on our foreign bond purchases