Or less than a month away from direct, public, u.s. military involvement in the war against russia. When I say "public" I don't mean in the sense that we're already involved. The discussion sites, chans, etc, are already aware of this. I mean 'public' as in official, acknowledged action and policy by the u.s. I think the civilian component will attempt to take it right to the brink without going over it, and then the DoD will sabotage that by going over the line. Forgetting the actual date range for a moment, lets just discuss the motives: The administration needs any reason, any at all, to distract from covid, and assume additional emergency powers. It thinks it can do this by taking us to the very edge of war. The military, which, you may be surprised to learn, is in an internal power struggle with the civilian government. It also has every reason to see the war escalate, because this provides an opportunity for it to expand its *own* emergency powers, and utilize those. In short, I think they are planning a counter-coup. And for this to happen, a direct confrontation would have to occur between the u.s. and russia. If the pentagon concluded, that the civil government's power comes from the manufactured consent of the cities, it is not hard to conclude that a large scale war with russia would be a net-benefit to the military faction. The cities would be destroyed, in ruins, and that much more reliant on the red states and military because only the military is organized enough to respond to such a disaster as attacks on u.s. homeland after starting a major war with russia or a certain asian nation. Historically, coups (and thats what 2008-2020 was), always lead to counter-coups. I think this is that.