The Modern Fausts could not find the Devil, so they made a deal with Xi in Wuhan. The Wuhan virus drove politicians to succumb to insanity and to virulent hypocrisy. Behold, in the sunset of the economy (the tightening of the belt), the feathers of truth descend: the four Nuppets of the Sino-Apocalypse have arrived as foretold, and Huge Birdy walks among us as a commissar who walks on water like it's a road to hegemony. Why? In the nick and prick of time, the Orwellian U.S. ministries closed and destroyed small businesses. The Wine-Garden-Kinder Bureau opened re-education camps for Marxist ideology. The smoke and mirrors reflected the Zeitgeist, but Nero didn't "fiddle while Rome burned;" he read poetry. Despite all that, the Great Putnik invaded Ukraine.