spat
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I think a lot of that stuff is chain reaction sort of events.
You get one, and several others follow.
Like stock market crash leads to civil war here leads to WWIII, etc...
You *know* if there is a civil war here every nation with any global ambition whatsoever is going to try to get involved....
We had half the world meddling back in 1865 when we were nobody and it took them 2 months to get a letter.
Today they'll all know in real time what's going on, and the outcome of that war would literally determine the direction of the whole planet for the next century.
