“...On the other hand, the U.S. Government will have more than a foreign war on its hands to deal with...”
At which point, Biden will probably suffer some sort of debilitating something and Kamala will become president.
I don’t think anyone in the government will survive long enough to be “anointed” anything.
We’ll be lucky if Humanity survives in the end. Cobalt 60 has the ability to sterilize the entire planet. No go for up to 100 years, and if enough is spread, everything is dead.