Suppose 1. obamas goal is to destroy america and its military 2. assume biden is obamas third term 3. obama gets none of the blame for anything that happens. 4. explains why the regime is going for broke and doubling down even when it cuts their leading man's throat. 5. a disastrous large scale, intentionally mismanaged war in ukraine or europe, would, after the fiasco of afhganistan, be the nail in the coffin for the u.s on the world stage. For this reason I expect the regime to start a large scale war, e.x. iraq/afghanistan-scale or larger. It's not about what the least-likely-to-act nation in this scenario wants. It's not about what russia wants. It's about what the regime in DC wants and needs, or can be dragged along into doing. Now, think about this. if biden is in the pocket of israel and china, and every indicator points to that being true. And china is in bed with israel. And china wants to cripple the u.s, and take out the only other competitor on the world stage (or cripple them too so they come begging), how would they do that? China would use obama, to order biden, to attack ukraine and russia. Game, set, match. Unfortunately, history does not treat kindly those who lose, simply because those who lost were ambushed. Having looked at the situation better now, I put this as a 40% chance of a distraction. Blackrock and vanguard are both losing control in the u.s., and the only way to match hyperinflation and die-offs cratering demand, is to artificially stimulate demand. War does that. Both china and russia have already built SWIFT alternatives, traded in oil, gas, gold, and their own currencies, just waiting to launch, waiting for a reason. There are two outcomes over the next decade: The political, economic, social, and military backlash at home, lead to a resurgence in u.s. strength, or the u.s. collapses. The guns complicate that equation, and the number of farmers, and independent-minded people complicate it too. What happens if china, israel, and russia wait? They take a 50% risk that we recover, as states go anti-federal, causing foreign lobbys and NGOs to lose control, when currently they own and dominate (in all but name) our financial, political, and intelligentsia class (journalists, bureaucrats, universities, institutions, etc). America is 50/50, given *current* variables, likely as weak as it will ever get in broad terms. Going in to a new century dominated by automation, and having plenty of resources, the international banks cant risk the renewal of america pushing off any amount of foreign control. It happened already with blackrock being dumped as just one example, and states going to gold-backed currencies as money. They will use russia, china, and israel, to halt this process. I predict a proper war, or significant prolonged conflict in the ukraine, mostly for the purpose of first, pumping up demand, to hurt the u.s. in conjunction with hyperinflation, and then a subsequent one-two punch of mass reindustralization in the u.s. to respond to this demand (re-instituting rationing and putting people to work in order to *normalize* war-time measures and new draft-like powers). The second hit comes when the hyperinflated dollars start to flood back into u.s. markets, to pump up the *domestic* hyperinflation, destroying *demand* because costs rise too fast for the system to adjust, even on a command economy. This will *rapidly force* the uptake of digital currencies, mainly of the u.s. domestic variety. The regime, utterly bushwacked, then lays off the war, in exchange for the pay out it will get: forcing people onto digital curencies in exchange for the price of their assets. As an aside, once the war is large enough scale, the u.s. government, states, and military, can use the precedent of "gold buybacks" to "requisition" customer ammo "for the war effort". "Every bullet horded, is a russian victory.", "Every bullet horded, is a russian that survives, and a u.s. patriot that dies in the war effort", "every bullet not accounted for, is a bullet in russian and chinese hands." It plays war and patriotism against the second amendment itself. Therefore anyone who sees through this, and decides to physically fight, can be labelled not just a terrorist, but "directly aiding the russians!" by firing those bullets at "our guys" instead of giving them up to "aid the war effort." "It's for the war effort!" becomes the new "follow the science!" Russia gets a reprieve here, because they can send their muslim populations, which have been a nuisances to them, to fight and kill or die in ukraine, which will please the banks anyway, because they want to replace europeans. Everyone wins, except citizens of the respective nations. I see no reason why this wouldn't be their plan already.