Whether you think the end of NATO, the threat of a resurgent Soviet Union, and the end of the dollar as a reserve currency would be good or bad, they now seem rationally like realistic possibilities.
**How stupid would it be go to dump stocks, dump buffer-EFTs (at a 10% loss), go to cash including the tax hit from selling out IRAs and everything...**
By "cash" I mean a mixture of cash dollars, CDs in dollars, and foreign currency EFTs and maybe foreign Bond EFTs (EFTs holding the foreign equivalent of USA treasuries, say Swiss government bonds) (if there is such a thing).
America has shown extraordinary resilience, but in dependency on foreign investment, and foreign brains, and domestic education. All those are profoundly under attack. Add to that American power and wealth for 175 years has derived from being the world's most prolific fossil fuel producer -- who's future depends on the continuation of the shale fracking revolution who's future is increasingly in doubt.