You look tired.

I seem to be tired all the time now.

Exhausted, I fell asleep sitting upright, and when I woke up it was already night, or at least that s what I assumed with no sunlight or moonlight by which to measure time.

After two years and 10,000 miles of endurance, courage, and hope against impossible odds, the Red Armies reached northwest China.

But the fiscal road ahead looks increasingly perilous, with political consensus fraying badly in recent years.

Specifically, Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy are still at risk, while bailout fatigue pervades the eurozone core.

Indeed, the travails of the European Union have revealed the limits of transnational political community building, even among a comparatively limited and similar set of countries.

Further studies are also needed to understand better the impacts of current and future anthropogenic stresses on marine biodiversity in order to identify means to mitigate them.

Instead, they tend to collapse from a strange internal malady a combination of the elites encroaching disgust with themselves and a realization that the regime is exhausted.

I mean, even if women tried to have a baby every single year from the time they were 15 to the time they were 45, assuming they didn't die from exhaustion, it still seems like some women would have some time left over to hear the word of God.

But could it have been otherwise? This should not be a surprise, because the tumultuous Gorbachev and Yeltsin eras left the country exhausted.

Everybody knows how American style hyper consumerism can destabilize social relations and lead to aggressiveness, loneliness, greed, and over work to the point of exhaustion.

But US fatigue following the conclusion of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico, together with rising domestic protectionism, helped to keep TAFTA on the ground.

The American led coalition can help by taking more steps that would reinforce a message of hope and optimism for the exhausted and demoralized Sunnis of Iraq.

Moreover, these populists attack the EU as an elite imposed project, while pro European coalitions have become exhausted, disintegrating in the aftermath of EU accession in 2004.

While the decision of the newly elected Government to abolish primary school fees is both welcome and necessary, in the short to medium term it will place further strain on an already overstretched educational infrastructure.

Politically and economically exhausted, and attentive to electorates clamoring for a shift of priorities to urgent domestic concerns, Europe and America are no longer very capable of imposing their values and interests through costly military interventions in faraway lands.

And some of the most heartrending emails that I get on my website are actually from adolescents hovering on the edge of burnout, pleading with me to write to their parents, to help them slow down, to help them get off this full throttle treadmill.

That Russians tolerate a government of ex KGB men, for whom lack of compassion and intolerance of dissent are the norm, reflects their exhaustion from the tumult of the last 20 years. Now the Kremlin seems to think that what is good for ordinary Russians is good for independent nations as well small and weak countries will be shown no mercy once Russia is given the tools to intimidate, isolate, and threaten them with the prospect of an energy blockade.

I said, Oh, come on. I mean, even if women tried to have a baby every single year from the time they were 15 to the time they were 45, assuming they didn't die from exhaustion, it still seems like some women would have some time left over to hear the word of God. And they said, No.

But the possibility of attack was of course anticipated, and military planners determined that the only possible response was to counterattack as heavily and for as long as might be needed, until Palestinian attacks would stop, whether from exhaustion or agreement.

At the same time, the Committee has taken note of the reporting fatigue indicated on several occasions by a number of Member States and will discuss, in cooperation with other relevant subsidiary bodies of the Security Council, how this issue can be addressed, including by seeking ways to provide advice to States on content of reports.