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Golitsyn may well be proven to be right, although there have been a few twists and turns that he did not anticipate. The Chinese and the Russians are replicating the roles of the Japanese and Germans of the last century, but unlike the fascist Axis, the Asian power is the more prominent player. The Iranians may be the 2020s equivalent of Italy.

The only man who could have served as a modern Churchill is playing golf at Boca Raton and is likely targeted for extensive lawfare by the Deep State.

Germany and therefore Western Europe will sit this conflict out. They have no military force capable of resistance, and Russia controls the natural gas supplies. Ukraine and possibly the Baltic States will be reabsorbed into Russian Empire 3.0. Poland and the other former Soviet satellites will see the handwriting on the wall and work out deals with Moscow.

China may strike quickly before Taiwan and other East Asian nations develop an effective nuclear deterrent. They may attempt a modern version of the Battle of Tsushima, in which the Japanese Navy decisively beat their Russian counterparts. The Chinese believe that American moral decadence and inadequate maintenance of military assets (only partially addressed by Trump) will provide them with a decisive victory. As with Europe, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, etc., will look to cut deals with the new hegemon in Beijing.

In the Western Hemisphere, Biden's open borders are carte blanche for terrorists of both the Muslim extremist and Communist varieties. Communist satellites in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua are also bases for future attacks. Combined with internal terrorist groups like BLM and Antifa and a Deep State more concerned about swatting the gnats of rightist militants than fighting the wolves of leftist and black supremacist groups, the potential for instability is escalating, especially in the blue states where law enforcement has their hands tied and where police commissioners and sheriffs are sympathetic to leftist terror.

Conservative anger at the Left's escalating war against American institutions and even common decency will likely lead to a replication of the "better Hitler than Blum" attitude of the French Right in the 1930s. Putin and the Russians have cultivated sympathy among paleoconservatives and libertarians by their facade of nationalism and Orthodox Christian trappings. LewRockwell.com is essentially a Putin fan club. If the U.S. faces an overseas war, traditionalist young white men will not sign up as they did in 2001, 1965, or 1941. A military filled with women and beta males will be defeated if they try to challenge Russian or Chinese forces in ground warfare. Even if our tanks and planes are better than those of our adversaries, "social justice" goals of diversity and inadequate maintenance will lead to disaster.

I wish I could be more optimistic, but barring divine intervention, the future of the United States and Europe is bleak.