What's about to blow will be big and destructive, with the power to distract from other events that otherwise might end careers. When we've reached the point where leaders need distractions of this magnitude, we will have clues beforehand, as we do now. Here are some of the crises in critical stages which, if populations are not distracted from them, will bite the hands that fed them:
1. Is Trump in the Epstein files? Who else is in there? Because Trump won't disclose the files it appears to his base that he's protecting child molesters, a career breaking perception, at least it has been. A major terrorist act would be enough to get our minds off the sordid scenario.
2. 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 parts of 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 its chunk of the 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.
3. It appears to a divided world that the Israel/Hamas conflict is between good and evil, with different opinions on which side is which. At this time the crimes of each are becoming clear, which will require a horrific act explained by one side as defensive, the other as offensive, to distract from the crimes of each.
4. Trump's base is having doubts about him not only because he's hiding the Epstein files, but because his policies are destroying their livelihoods. He can't face Americans much longer like this. A big terrorist attack would be useful right now.
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).
