Ah, there is a plan.
Army Group Steiner will move south and save Baghdad
Science and Democracy have one unique strenght in common.
They provide institutional mechanisms for negative feedback. When pundits are wrong, the mechanisms will, eventually, reveal the error and self-correct.
When those mechanisms fail or or abandoned we lose.
Testing these institutional mechanisms to destruction does not seem like a very good idea.
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