And the award goes to…Pakistan! Escalating tensions between the US and Pakistan have only been getting worse. As Pepe Escobar notes, this “row”–as it is called by the mainstream media–has the potential to deteriorate quickly into one hot mess:

Expect a festival of MQ-9 Reapers droning North Waziristan to death. What US President Barack Obama calls a tool of “unique capabilities”, for Pashtun farmers is a weapon of terror.

• Expect strike after strike conducted out of a control room in Nellis air force base in Nevada.

• Expect an array of strategic missile bombings with spectacular collateral damage.

• Expect more Joint Special Operations Command-ordered special operations forces “kill/capture” raids.

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