“...interesting concept too!”
For quite a while I’ve thought that such “fiction” would be a good way to explore political strategies, especially given all the speculation about “Civil War II.” How might it unfold? Short fictional scenarios, in particular. What would “work”? What wouldn’t?
I expect someone will raise a red lantern in a university tower or an office building. That can be all it takes to begin a shooting war:
The Red Order of Revolution was issued on 26 January, and a red lantern, a symbolic indicator of the uprising, was lit in the tower of the Helsinki Workers' House. A large-scale mobilisation of the Reds began late in the evening of 27 January, with the Helsinki Red Guard and some of the Guards located along the Vyborg-Tampere railway having been activated between 23 and 26 January, in order to safeguard vital positions and escort a heavy railroad shipment of Bolshevik weapons from Petrograd to Finland. White troops tried to capture the shipment: 20–30 Finns, Red and White, died in the Battle of Kämärä at the Karelian Isthmus on 27 January 1918.