The question is my mind is, are these events necessarily mutually exclusive? The Republicans have been more than happy to hop off to war in the past, they have a strong track record of playing up to the military, and even though Trump has hijacked part of the Republican party with skeptics, I don't think it will matter too much if some spectacular "Russian" attack occurs on allied soil. The reasoning will be how ever we got into the war doesn't matter, we're in one now, and we need to fight it. Also, a large mass of propagandized mindless Americans will demand something be done about it, and the efforts of a few representatives with a more nuanced view of the situation will be drowned out in the madness and they will be dragged along with it. So the Republicans sweep the election, the war continues with renewed vigor, and the deep state rolls ever forward.