What's coming, through covert design (see previous post), will be destructive enough to distract from situations that otherwise could end careers. When we've reached the point where leaders need distractions of such magnitude, we will have clues beforehand, as we do now. Here are some of the crises that are in critical stages which, if populations are not distracted from them, will bite the hands that feed them:
1. Trump is playing the whole world in his mediation between Russia and Ukraine. While he pretends to scold both sides, we get hints that Russia will end up keeping Donetsk, in the Donbas region - formerly Ukrainian territory along the Russian border - an area rich in rare earth minerals necessary for the internet age. After Russia gets Donetsk and possibly other areas of Donbas, it will likely do business with the U.S.- per prearrangement - in fulfillment of a deal that will piss off so much of the world that a distraction will be required at the moment the deal becomes clear.
2. Trump's base is having doubts about him because he's hiding the Epstein files, making him appear a protector of child molesters, a career breaking perception (at least it has been), and because his policies are destroying many of their livelihoods.
He can't face America and the world much longer like this. A big terrorist attack would be useful right now, and because of its timing, collaboration with the "enemy" should be suspected.
Leaders of other countries and armies have a similar need for distraction. The situation is reminiscent of the lead-ups to the first two world wars, in which leaders surreptitiously sought conflict to escape from the mounting pressures of peace.
Here's a breakdown:
World War I: On June 28, 1914, just before the war broke out, a Serbian partisan, who was opposed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire's domination of Serbia, assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand, the heir to the Empire's throne. In a harsh ultimatum to Serbia, the Empire issued demands that, according to many historians, were so extreme they appeared designed to produce the intense Serbian response that, through multi-national alliances on both sides, triggered major war throughout Europe. Leaders took advantage of their populations' misguided belief that war would free them from their frustrated and futile seeming lives (see Aldous Huxley's 1928 novel, Point Counter Point).
World War II: In 1940, before the U.S. entered the war against Japan, Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, warned President Roosevelt that mooring the fleet at Pearl Harbor would place it threateningly close to Japan, that it would be highly vulnerable to surprise aerial torpedo and bombing attack, and that Hawaii was too far from mainland U.S. to be adequately supplied. The fleet was deployed at Pearl Harbor anyway, because upper management needed major violence to cover its lack of better ideas.
Of course, manufactured distraction is not the only cause of violence; there is also our predilection for it. You can't, however, predict human violence based solely on its potential, since violent ideation is a constant, while you can predict violence from political tensions that, if people blame them on their leaders and are not distracted, will grow into domestic strife rather than righteous war against other countries.
