IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE, THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2023 - SCENARIOS ONE & TWO.

 IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE, THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2023 - SCENARIO ONE.

What is the world approaching as we engage in our Christmas celebrations this year? A universal belief in affording goodwill to all men and women? Or only to some... to those who think as we do?

It was Christmas Eve, the year of Our Lord 2023 and every home was preparing for the annual festival of peace, harmony and presents for the kids. Snow fell here and there, bringing an extra special level of Christmas cheer to those households fortunate enough to be within those weather zones.

In a world of troubles the perennial feelings of festive happiness arose in most hearts still.

2023 had been a hard year to get through with a heart imbued with the desired lightness that most sought. 2022 before it had been the same. An almost alien presence had burdened those hearts. Further consumption had failed to totally overcome the threat that seemed to linger in the very air and particularly in the coughs and sneezes of fellow humans.

There was an awareness that the world was splitting into two halves with the fracture points threatening endless war. Wasn’t this meant to be a world free from strife where we all got along? Wasn’t this what consumers were told, if by subtle means of inference, celebrating all the new seductive products the manufacturers had to sell? The ads continued to say said “Don’t worry. Our products will make you happy. Forget what’s happening a while.”

Malls were still full of course. Myriad confections and gadgets were on display. The usual array of happy-go-lucky and sentimental Christmas movies were doing good business. The children, oblivious to anything other than the delights of Christmas and the presents to come played and laughed as usual. All seemed relatively normal within the emotion-enclosed vacuum chamber of Christmas joy.

Walking through snowy or rainy streets after the ritual of considering and buying presents for everyone within the family circle, having delivered the e-cards and bought the turkey and tree, all most likely felt well. There would be lots of special entertainments on TV and classic movies to watch. The general urge was to put all heavier subjects out of sight and out of mind for now. Sadly, this state of self-imposed reverie was not to last.

It was a few seconds after midnight on Christmas Day when the first missile reached its target. Central Moscow had lost its most renowned location, the Kremlin. Only seconds later the square mile around Beijing’s administrative quarter was also no more. Two additional targets in both cities were also hit in the capitals as a rain of missiles hit a range of other targets across a range of cities in both Russia and China. Unknown to those who had been charged with creating a wall of defence around these nations the USA had checkmated all their efforts.

It was simply impossible for the USA and its allies to contemplate the loss of their abilities to steer the course of humanity’s long road on Planet Earth. The inevitable consequence of China and Russia rising in economic terms meant that the influence of the elites of the western world would wane in direct proportion. This was entirely unacceptable to them and certain recent world events had brought them to this final act.

The situations in both Ukraine and Taiwan had come to a head, mostly through the pressure exerted by the western powers seeking to take both Russia and China to their limits of toleration. Time was running out for the western powers. For a variety of reasons including the failure of the Ukraine regime’s counteroffensive and the continued support of Russia by the nations of the global south it was clear the western powers were losing. They had seen the trend of a rising east and a declining west becoming ever more pronounced for several decades and the critical phase had now been reached. Beyond this point, they saw the window of their opportunity to regain their dominance closing. Now was the time to act.

The decision had not been taken lightly, though harder heads had prevailed throughout the decades-long decision-making process. It was agreed it was now or never. The circumstances provided an existential threat and they could no longer delay their inevitable last option. They had long decided on this final act. It had only been a matter of time while other options, seen as largely unlikely to make any serious difference, were given time to run their course.

Everything had been calculated to the minutest degree. The whereabouts of both Putin and Xi had been precisely known for many years due to satellite contingencies that remained unrevealed to world media. The defence matrix of both nations too had been mapped in precise form and contingencies developed to monitor them too in precise detail. The final nail in the coffin of weakening the adversary powers had been their development of hypersonic weaponry and their cooperation in sharing these technologies.

So it was that Christmas Day 2023 would go down in the emotional memory of those across Eurasia as one of the most evil forms of geopolitical infamy ever known. This while in the West every mainstream media news source called it a "tragic necessity", leading to “an end of the threat to the rules-based international order”, that had been brought about by Russian and Chinese aggression.

Half the world burned while the other put into action their contingency plans to contain the consequent anger and neutralise its effects. The western world had long been a virtually closed system for decades and now it was only necessary to close down the remaining independent voices who might communicate their “disinformation” and “fake news” taking a hostile view to these “sad but necessary” actions by the western powers. Satellite coverage would be expanded to ‘monitor the peace’ and eliminate the possibility of any future threats to it.

All were urged to look forward to a new world and era of peace in the year ahead. 2024 was to herald a new dawn for humanity where democracy, freedom and universal human rights were to be afforded to all the Earth’s populations. The danger from opposition forces to this noble goal was ended. Now the world could unite and the Space Force above would ensure that every citizen would now be free from fear, be continually watched over, guided and protected from false opinions and all this now for eternity.

It was to be the happiest Christmas for all who believed in freedom, ready now to protect that freedom and resolutely crush all who might threaten it, in the name of the Lord God above.

“MERRY CHRISTMAS & GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

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IT WAS CHRISTMAS EVE, THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 2023 - SCENARIO TWO.

What is the world approaching as we engage in our Christmas celebrations this year? A universal belief in affording goodwill to all men and women? Or only to some... to those who think as we do?

Christmas was being celebrated across most of the world and, as usual, most fervently in the western world where consumption was reaching its seasonal peak. In Moscow and Beijing however, the business of leadership and governance went on as usual.

Vladimir and Xi kept in close contact due to the highly critical juncture for their countries which had now reached its climax. In both Ukraine and Taiwan, the USA and its allies were hard at work creating mounting pressure on both leaders.

The forces of NATO across the ex-Soviet nations of the Warsaw Pact were increasing their presence by the day, while the NATO leadership showed no signs whatsoever that this process would be brought to an end. In Taiwan U.S. military forces were active while the political elite in Washington made no secret of their plans to recognise the island as an independent state. This was an outcome that was completely unacceptable to China. The situation had reached a position of impasse for both nations and to continue in the hope of some change within the West was clearly futile.

There would be no better time to act than during this time when the necessity to grant personnel leave to enjoy the Christmas festivities with their families would mean some, if not all, posts were unoccupied. 

The decision to act now had not come lightly. The leadership in both countries had exercised immense patience over the past several decades, partly due to the remaining hope that the USA could not possibly countenance a world war in pursuit of its aims, partly out of certain economic and technological weaknesses now resolved.

It was with a heavy heart in both capitals that the campaign now about to be initiated had been drawn up. It had been hoped that the push for complete global dominance by the USA would be abandoned when the inevitable outcome of a world war was realised in Washington. It was clear to both leaders now that there would be no such moment.

The USA had become the most dominant world force prior to World War II but it was in the aftermath of that war and subsequent years that its strength was shown in the ability to mould the new geopolitical architecture of Europe and the Far East. Then, at the conclusion of the Cold War, it demanded full recognition of its status as the unipolar superpower. It was in this fervour of nationalist pride in its supreme power to dominate the entire world that it began its push toward Russia’s borders. Then came 9/11.

9/11 resulted in the demand from within the elite political superstructure of America that any and all entities demonstrating any opposition to U.S. power be eliminated. A program was initiated to attack, weaken, undermine, subvert or invade each and every such nation, starting with Afghanistan, then Iraq and ultimately including the nations of both China and Russia. At first, the enormity of this desire was not fully appreciated in either Moscow or Beijing and it was only with great reluctance that the awful fact of this goal became accepted.

It was from the middle to the end of 2021 that the response came. First from Beijing with a new breed of officials who began to speak plainly and authoritatively and in no uncertain terms in response to U.S. accusations, demands and ultimatums. In the latter part of 2021 Russia also hardened her official stance against the obvious and growing threat from the USA, UK and their allies. No attempt at resolving differences was being made by the West. To all intents and purposes, diplomacy was dead and buried. The USA wanted full spectrum dominance by the elimination of all those who they saw as adversaries and indeed if truth be told, enemies. They were targets for destruction and diplomacy could only delay the day of that destruction.

In Moscow and Beijing, there were now no longer any illusions about American plans for them. An existential threat to them by the West was abundantly clear and there could be no doubt of the outcome if they merely voiced their opposition in the hope it would relent. It had become clear to the leadership of both nations that it would take more than words to enable the continued survival of their nations, their cultures and their right to national sovereignty and security.

Russia was winning its special military operation in Ukraine but clearly saw that the western powers were not going to concede the new security architecture for Europe that Russia required to feel safe. The assumption was more and more clearly felt that the USA and its allies were not going to restrain themselves to any degree whatsoever in the face of their imminent defeat. A nuclear strike by the USA and its closest ally, Britain at the very least, if not from NATO bases across Europe appeared highly likely.

So it was that on Christmas Eve 2023 as it was celebrated in the West in the seconds after twelve midnight heralding Christmas Day that the plan long developed in coordination between Moscow and Beijing was enacted.

In the years preceding this point of determinate action all necessary technologies had been developed including the hypersonic capability that would now be crucial to the task. In addition, the ability to block western defence systems had now been honed to as near perfection as possible. Everything was ready for what would now take place.

The coordination of hitting both Washington, Whitehall, Brussels and NATO HQ concurrently was extremely precise. Every strategic location had long been mapped in precise detail. The current location of every last member of the command structure of every western nation was precisely known on a moment by moment basis. Subsequently, a flurry consisting of thousands of missiles powered by hypersonic technology of all sizes hit targets precisely across the western world.

The massively dangerous capacity of the West was swiftly neutralised. Mopping up operations detected and neutralised what remained of lesser targets in a second wave coming moments after the first. The final world war was over in seconds. The elites of the West had brought on their own destruction while seeking the destruction of others. 

A third and lesser wave came moments after the initial two waves of devastation. Then came the messages of reassurance to the general populations of those countries hit hardest. A new world was being born this night, a world where one nation or group of nations would no longer dominate, where diverse modes of governance would not determine whether a nation was an enemy and thus a target but where trade would build tolerance between all nations. The solemn assurance was made in live broadcasts by both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping that neither Russia nor China would seek to replace the USA in its stance of sole superpower but that the era of multipolar democracy had now arrived.

A new world was to arise from the ashes of the old. The overwhelming hubris and arrogance that had personified the western world’s stance to all the nations of the world as evidenced in its constant flouting of international law were never to be seen again. The world could now move on toward the destiny all balanced hearts had endlessly hoped for, a world of unity in diversity, of tolerance, of rising standards, increased trade, of harmony of purpose, tolerance for differences of all kinds and most importantly of all… a world where peace was ever sought, never war. 

“С Новым Годом!”

“WELCOME ALL TO THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD OF PEACE NOW NEWLY BORN!”

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