On an alternate Covid timeline where more deaths have accumulated and lock downs returned after Halloween. Lock downs for Zero Covid based on China. Democrat leadership went extra mile
strongly Bi-Partisan as a safety precaution from the Ukraine biological lab incident November 1 caused by Russia destroying power.
Then came the missile Crisis of November 2022. NATO viewed it as direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and historic enemy bloc. during the Covid Wars. This was the moment USA came closest to nuclear conflict in a two front war with China and Russia. Certain surprises regarding US -British-- non-nuclear strategy of sea air space enabled bets against the Anglo-Americans to lose big.
The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides. The dramatic crisis was also characterized by the fact that it was primarily played out at the White House and the Kremlin level with relatively little input from the respective bureaucracies typically involved in the foreign policy process. The pro-American putsch across the Russian Federation toppling the “Neo-Soviets” on November 8 shocked the world.