It's very, very nice, and sad.

It's unlikely the whole world will burn any time soon, I really believe that. I think it's a horrible, horrible show, but just a show. For domestic consumption. There's no fragile power balance. No alliances that are strongly based on blind ideology, conflicting delusions, if you will.

NATO is divided. There's no extreme paranoia. Clinton will do nothing drastic (though that might be a problem, there's still the threat).

It's sad how countries are sacrificed, but that's how it works.

Syria and Iraq are bigger problems. But rather contained. Many countries in Eastern Europe think they can afford to stall EU negotiations. They don't seem frightened. Maybe foolishly so, but the EU is toothless but will be protected. Many European countries can use migrants, many Syrians are well-educated.

It could be far, far worse.