I stopped following the books some years ago, but the Hubs was watching a 2014 movie from Clancy's post-humous juggarnaut, called Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.  It had been paused on the screen, and I noticed the plot description provided by Philo, where I get my streaming TV fix.

Given the Ukraine invasion, DC's neo-demonization of Putin, and the interesting global side effects of Putin's action so far, I thought the Philo tag –  "Jack Ryan uncovers secret Russian plot to crash the US economy" – to be amazingly prescient.

There really are no secrets, only obscurations, lies, competing narratives and mysteries waiting to be solved.  I wouldn't want to give Putin too much credit, but dare I ask if there may be an actual "plot" to crash the US economy?

Naturally, my first guess as to who is crashing our economy, and our country, would be our own US government, the MICIMATT, and the Federal Reserve network of affiliated banks, investors, and beneficiaries.  Apologies for repeating myself. If they aren't destroying the US economy on purpose, in an insane desire for complete control over everything and every idea, then they are either really stupid or just devilishly lucky.  We could call this the Orwell assumption.