I think that scenario is pretty unlikely. MAD (mutually assured destruction) still rules, and for quite a while now the US appears to have settled for "asymmetric warfare". Their desperation in that respect has been really showing over the last 10 years or so.
Indeed,but desperate psychopaths aren't known for rational thinking.
I get what you're saying,but I'm referring to a last ditch effort sort of situation.Psychopaths don't act rationally at the best of times,so what will happen when you add high strangeness/odd weather?I think emperor Justinian is a good example there.Also should they decide to release the race specific plague,do you think Russia won't know or recognize who's responsible?In one of the previous sessions Cassies said that the US would be hated and bombed.While they did mention ''natural'' bombs they didn't specifically rule out man made ones.
I mean ultimately I'm spit balling ideas here.For example,there's a book called The adventures of Little Baron Trump written in the 19th century that talks about Trump being the last president and America destroying itself ''as an evil eye looks on''.So far it seems to be on the mark.Also this is a bit of a tangent,but I'm currently reading Programmed to Kill and at least two of the serial killers, Manson and Henry Lee were both sent to school wearing dresses.Obviously that alone didn't make them serial killers,but it's interesting that the people responsible for manufacturing them appear to have the same leanings as the current left.Or more accurately,the left has the same leanings as the people that program serial killers.
Another tangent,a ton of serial killers came from Santa Cruz.A little hippy area where lots of hippies moved to get away from the big city and it's lifestyle.The area had no cops and being full of hippies,naturally had no militia either.So no rules.Pretty soon meth dealers/cooks moved in.So did satanists and every other kind of evil.Not long after the little hippy area had one of (if no the) highest murder rates in the country.
Reason I brought it up is that I've been trying to figure out why hippies disgust me.And I mean that,i have a gut reaction to them the same way I do to the general new age crowd.Even when I was 16 or so just looking for answers and fully mired in the new age materials,i just couldn't shake off the feeling of disgust i had.Like smelling something rotten on a hot day,some phrases or the general ''look'' of the people who are
really into it would throw me off.I used to think that maybe something was wrong with me,after all how can you be disgusted by love and light right?Well I think i kind of figured it out.Not fully,but at least halfway there.
It's a lack of morals.They preach love and light and acceptance ''Just smoke pot and listen to music,why doesn't everyone do that''.But they don't have any actual values,nothing they're willing to stand by.And they judge others for having standards,for caring about something other than pleasure or mental masturbation.Hippies were not able to prevent their communes being co opted not just through a lack of knowledge about psychopathy,but also through lacking a spine.For your community to survive you need people in it who will draw a line,who will say ''These are our values,we don't want or accept what you're preaching and we won't tolerate it in our community.We will defend ourselves,violently if necessary.''Naturally,hippies disinclined to violent defense became victims instead and the Santa Cruz area became littered with mutilated corpses used in dark rituals.The reason I brought this up is that I still see some of this hippie thinking of ''any violence bad'' and it's important to remember that ''
The rules dictating that it is being less than human to defend ones self and what is right and true may just have been put in place to make one weak.'' I'm not saying to go out and raise hell,just don't be like the Santa Cruz hippies.
Edit : removed double quote