The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-07-2020, 05:29 AM)beechnut79 Wrote: I can envision the bulk of the society looking for an escape hatch as feelings of restlessness and wanting more freedom come to the surface during what remains of the pandemic...

All of that I would count as extensions of the virus crisis.  Possible.

I have considered how a classic crisis war would start.  With everybody busy with the bug, I don’t see it overly likely to start abroad.

But Trump might be behind in the polls, and might try to win with a war surge in presidential popularity.  Alternatively he has a few months between the election and the inauguration to cement his legacy.  For lack of anything else to do I have let my blue imagination run wild and tried to anticipate the worst.

I can’t see him starting a land war in Asia.  He might invade an island in the South China Sea, but I don’t see China giving him much of an excuse.  For Russia he would want local bases, which I do not see the locals granting.  He has disengaged from the Middle East.

That leaves the nuclear forces.  My imagination falls short of believing he is that crazy.  Crazy, sure, but not that crazy.  That would be irrational.

Don’t see Biden wanting to start anything.

So far, I haven’t come up with anything I feel likely.