Watching the lurches over the last couple of weeks and
putting on my paranoid hat I had this bad brown acid trip:
How World War 3 starts.
Trump is sworn in, there are ugly scenes at the event
(not that this is really germane to this story but it’s part of the background)
Within a few months of this, a major terrorist attack
involving multiple targets hits the United States, casualties are heavy and the
Trump admins is caught flat footed.
In response the Trump Administration begins the registration
of Muslims in the us (at first immigrants and the citizens) at the same time putting
boots on the ground in Syria and eventually bombing Iran which ignites the
middle east – Iran being a somewhat tougher nut to crack than Iraq (which was a
basket case by the time we invaded) and
the bloody mess in Syria cause first mission creep then full scale US military involvement
in the region on the scale of the Iraq war – And it’s a mess, there is no
specific plans on ‘winning the war’ just a lot of bellowing about taking gloves
off and the like.
Iran not only continues to survive under the attacks but
manages to land a few blows here and matters get worse – more troops and planes
And then as the US is looking to be completely involved
in the middle east – China says quietly to North Korea – do what you want –
which involves an active invasion of South Korea – which the US military stretched
and heavily involved in the middle east we have no reserve to send – and things
get really bad fast – and then China hits Taiwan and we are forced to try and
get on a real war footing only to discover that that can’t really be done today
– so the Trump administration will be faced with the choice do we nuke China or
not because of Taiwan and risk world war 3 – my grim guess is yes and in our case the
answers to the Fermi Paradox will be that we have done blown ourselves up before we could
communicate with other civilizations.
Peace out.
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