What does the future hold? In this newsletter, my readers contemplate how much worse things could get. Adam Garfinkle imagines this scenario ... claireberlinski.substack.com/p/what-does-th… 
A second wave: "By mid-October, the US death toll approaches 310,000. Trump denies the numbers and blames the Deep State for the rise in infections and deaths, obliquely implying that Democratic sympathizers ... "
And one in China, too: "Meanwhile, rabid Wolf Milk nationalists cause chaos in the manner of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution: Insisting the CIA deliberately re-infected China to prevent China from accruing the reputational advantage it deserves ... "
An accident: "On October 17, 2020, an accident occurs during a routine US Navy freedom-of-navigation operation in the South China Sea, in international waters near Palawan Island. Half a dozen US sailors are killed and two dozen are injured ... "
Then Russia: "On October 24, a preternaturally quiet Russian President Vladimir Putin takes advantage of American and Chinese distraction to send significant numbers of “little green men” across Russia’s border with Latvia ... "
Then a constitutional crisis: "Trump then uses the war and health crises as a pretext to 'postpone' the November election, which polls show he’s going to lose. Most Republican governors say they will obey. Democratic governors unanimously refuse. ... "
Read the rest to find out what happens next. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/what-does-th…
