{"id":1363,"date":"2017-01-29T15:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1363"},"modified":"2017-01-29T15:12:23","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T15:12:23","slug":"i-have-a-dream-or-rather-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/29\/i-have-a-dream-or-rather-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a dream&#8230; or rather nightmare."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rather bad scenario going around my head about World events at the moment which I really hope doesn&#8217;t play out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>After Trump and Steve Bannon engineer the fall of democracy and the rise of the life time President Trump behind the scenes they hatch a plan with Putin and Russia via their shared ideological thinker Aleksadr Dugin. They agree that Putin can have Europe, except the UK and Ireland, as that&#8217;s Trump&#8217;s ancestral home, and Trump\/Bannon can have the Americas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Simultaneously the USA and Russian Federation invade Canada and Eastern Europe respectively taking the World by surprise. The only nuclear capable nations other than the two major powers either can&#8217;t react or don&#8217;t want to. Britain&#8217;s &#8220;independent&#8221; arsenal is neutered by the USA automatically and joint strikes by the CIA and Russian special forces take out France&#8217;s systems. China looks on and starts to mobilise its defences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Russia sweeps across Europe as the local forces are no match for Russia&#8217;s without American support. Similarly, Canada is soon subdued. Britain and Ireland stand alone, left only with pea shooters. The USA turns its attention to Mexico&#8230; The British Isles can wait&#8230; until they beg to be under the USA&#8217;s rule.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Meanwhile, China is not expansionist but increases its defences and influence in Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>A new World order is established.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alarmist? Maybe. Possible? Who knows? Likely? Stranger things have happened in World affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a rather bad scenario going around my head about World events at the moment which I really hope doesn&#8217;t play out. After Trump and Steve Bannon engineer the fall of democracy and the rise of the life time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/29\/i-have-a-dream-or-rather-nightmare\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-lZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}