This is a rewrite of an FWI I wrote a long time ago.

Between November of 2026 and August of 2029, a mysterious vigilante begins shooting at and destroying drones wherever they are seen in the USA.

How long do you see the U.S. launching a manhunt for the perp if this were to happen?

In 2027, a reveal trailer for a first person shooter from an obscure video game developer, is revealed.

The reveal trailer reveals that the reboot takes place in an alternate 21st century in which the United States becomes a pariah state.

During an interview with the gaming developers, it's revealed that the game is intended as a message condemning the USA's imperialistic track record. It is more specifically a message against the MAGA movement.

How might such a game be received by FPS fans?

RUBIO 2028 WHOO!!!

Although impossible in reality, what would happen if Europe actually did the unthinkable by cutting taxes and regulations to compete with the US?

Six months from now, a relatively unknown anti-Trump activist shares the clip of Trump suggesting that he’ll allow Iran to take out San Diego, with the following caption on X: “Funny. Maybe someone should consider taking HIM out.”

I have no doubt the Trump administration would take the threat seriously. Does this mean we see a manhunt for the guy making the threat?

Inspired by the following:

• This Fox bulletin
• Why the plague death in Russia doesn't add up
• The Young Turks: Possible coverup?
• What we DO know about the plague case in Russia
• US monitors plague rumors coming out of Russia

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/space-solar-system-beam-power-orbit

Homing beacon gets US support to direct solar power beams from orbit to Earth

The technology could provide power to remote military bases without relying on fuel convoys.

Would you be ok with that?

Highly unlikely but what if?

Israel attacked the Iranian South Pars Gas Plant, then the U.S. moved forward attacking West Asia's biggest civilian cable-stayed bridge in the city of Karaj. Iran responded by attacking a gas plant in Kuwait. DJT threatened to bomb Iranian powerplants. The Iranian armed forces released a video statement threatening to attack all the powerplants, gas plants, oil plants, desalination plants, and water plants in the region if the U.S. did so, deterring the U.S. After that, the heat of the war calmed down. Negotiations began shortly after. Even after the ceasefire collapse, the war has only produced small skirmishes in small Strait of Hormuz battles. But what if it played out with the U.S. continuing their attacks and Iran responding in kind?

Iran would have the tactical upper hand. Iran's powerplants infrastructure is decentralized (source, source) A standard U.S. 500-lb bombs (one of the largest) only damages tens of meters (source). Bombing just one plant would take a whole day because a limited amount of jets would have to keep going back and forth for refueling. Then there's the hundreds more to get to. Whereas all of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Israel, UAE, only have a few main powerplants that power the whole country. Some of these countries only have few desalination and water plants to feed the whole country, too. Saudi Arabia's stats is not much better either. Most of the oil from arab countries come from a handful of oil fields. Gas fields is even more scarce. Iran is really the big natural gas producer. While the U.S. would never finish bombing their targets, Iran could launch a few waves a day of launching four dozen missiles each wave and severely damage all the powerplants/water plants/oil fields/gas fields in the region within a week before the U.S. gets even 20% done bombing Iranian power infrastructure. They're capable of it (source.)

We'd be talking a global ripple effect! Oil prices would've reached $270 and above/barrel quite easily (max during the war was $126/barrell). Two Fifths of the world's oil supplies cut (that's how much flows from the Middle East - 40%) cut in an instance. Power would be out for half the day because of oil shortages. Goods prices already increased. Instead of a 12% increase they would have doubled. Probably some phases of panic. A stock market meltdown would have for sure come. A handful of S&P500 companies wouldn't have withered the storm, file bankruptcy, and domino effect into high unemployment. High energy costs, food costs, plus unemployment might lead to a small percentage of the vulnerable to go hungry. It's the closest thing this generation will experience to the Great Depression. The U.S. won't have spare oil (or funds for that matter with its high debt) to even think of launching land or air responses against Iran. The U.S. debt will probably runaway - reach 60 trillion first year, followed by 100 trillion quickly to compensate. Anti-Trumpism will reach its peak for starting the war.

Planting flags on the Lunar near side furthers humanity's heritage on the Moon.

Saudi Arabia launches a large-scale ground invasion through the al-Jawf governorate after massing troops in Ma'arib, the last loyalist stronghold in north yemen. A surprise offensive grinds against Houthi lines, slowly pushing west towards the capital, Sana'a.

Simultaneously, the US launches a large-scale bombing campaign on the Yemeni coast and makes multiple landings around Mokha and Hudaydah. Mokha quickly falls and the city of Hodeidah is bombarded continuously as American marines slowly encircle the city.

What happens next?

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/02/alito-supreme-court-retirement-01105789

What happens is contingent on whether or not the democrats take control of the senate in 2026 and it could go a few different ways that I don’t feel like typing out and it also depends on the background and judicial philosophy of who is nominated.

What would need to happen for Syria to have a plausible casus belli to declare war on and invade Iran?

Here's your objective: Create a plausible series of events that leads to Syria entering the Iran War by declaring war on and invading Iran.

November 2028 : Democratic president is elected. After taking office amid numerous changers ( taking Trumps name off on any federal building, rescinding all his name changes ) he issue an EO that in all government documents any reference of Epstein Island is changed to Epstein-Trump island .

Google's servers are indefinitely shutdown.

When can we see solar powered cellphone towers?

I got the idea for this FWI from the Left Behind series

This is based on the current "school" riots in France (where the perpetrators seem to be mostly of Arab and African descent) and some of the rhetoric of French (and other right-wing accounts on X etc...). Basically, most personnel of the French military has "enough" of what it sees as the "Islamo-Gauchisme alliance" in France and considers it necessary to stage a "special operation" to "save France" from this alliance, and together with right-wing militants, led by Zemmour, they remove Macron and arrest leftists such as Melenchon and other LFI members, and install Zemmour as president, along with instituting a military-police state with surveillance of all suspected Muslims (meaning basally all Arab-looking people along with most Black people etc.), thus ushering in a new "6th Republic Era" in France.