The Third War of the Worlds

I return you now to your regular weekly reading of Principle Based Politics . . . Wait. I have just pulled up a live feed from CNN, which has further news. I will pass along in real time what they are saying. The projectiles reported minutes ago are missiles.

CNN is cutting now to reports from the U.S. Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, D.C., where an urgent announcement is being made. The speaker is warning all Americans to prepare for incoming warheads, potentially containing unknown weapons of mass destruction. The only missiles entering U.S. airspace so far have been intercepted off the coast of Hawaii, but our military believes others are being readied for launch.

Now MSNBC, which I’m also monitoring, is interviewing Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania. While imploring Americans to seek whatever shelter is available to them, he already is arguing that “America First” isolationism led directly to this attack. “This is the natural consequence of the Second Trump Administration decision to abandon Ukraine in 2025,” Shapiro stated. “This emboldened not only Russia, but all of CRINK” – an acronym referring to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

Fox News, of course, is reporting the facts differently, and it now has President Vance live on the air, speaking by telephone from an undisclosed secure location. “The Biden Administration started this with its weak defense budgets and pullout from Afghanistan. There wasn’t time for Donald Trump – God rest his soul – to strengthen our national defenses and image before his stroke, and I have been fighting pushback from Democrats in Congress ever since I assumed office last year,” Vance ventured.

Impacts now are being reported in California. Looking for the best eye-witness disaster coverage, I have switched over to the Weather Channel. “This is the most terrifying thing I have ever witnessed . . . it’s indescribable,” the raincoat-clad reporter shouted from Malibu Beach, just before his feed went black.

Bombs of various types falling everywhere now. USA launching our own weapons, per X. No time for complete sentences. Looks like a real war, everyone says – a true “war to end all wars.” (I wonder: Because the world ends?) Just pondering, while I still can type. Internet now down.

MS Word still works, thanks to Bill Gates, and I have battery left on laptop.

Everything looks normal outside my window in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, except there are no people. Nothing moving, except my wife and me. Must have been AI-powered stealth or biological weapons used here. I will continue to write my thoughts for posterity’s sake – in case anyone survives to find and read this. It may be that the two of us are the last people left on the planet. Hunkering down, praying, and conserving power until we are sure it’s over.

[Four days later.] Heading outside now to look for other survivors . . . I found only one, a man who had walked all the way from Iowa. He, too, was searching for signs of life.

“What happened?” the man asked. “I came in from combining beans, and it was like the world had just stopped.”

“I was in my basement,” I said. “Just starting to write my weekly political blog. It all happened so fast.”

“Our country should have expected something like this,” he mused. I agreed.

We went on to ponder how one thing leads to another – a favorite conversation for native Iowans. We noted how it all started with the careless election of unprincipled political “leaders,” which produced government dysfunction and the desire for electoral power. This led to voter-pleasing, but uncontrolled, federal spending, which generated a huge national debt, forcing a reduced defense budget. While the political parties fought with each other over all of this, the CRINK tyrants were building their weapons, watching us, and plotting how to destroy us.