The thing about nukes that makes me the most uncomfortable aren't the vaporization deaths which would be pretty fast. For me, it's the people under buildings who die slowly or by asphyxiation as people desperately try to get them out. It's hard to get emergency personnel into a place that has just been nuked. Those stories about people being under rubble for days make me want to cry.
Carrington Event 2.0 happens exactly as all the nukes are flying and most of them fall from the sky. Only a handful of nukes actually turn out to have had good enough EMP shielding to continue operating in such a powerful geomagnetic storm, so there really are only 10-20 million nuke deaths (depending on the breaks). The nuclear exchange actually ends up doing far less damage in total than Carrington. The internet is down indefinitely, power grids are out of commission for the time being, enough satellites fail to cause a Kessler syndrone and ruin LEO for decades.
The war in Ukraine which triggered the nuclear escalation continues as a semi-conventional war, despite the precarious domestic situation in every country. Both sides scramble to restore their reserve nuclear weapons to a usable state and launch, Russia takes a lead on this but has a limited capability to reach the US mainland, so the cities and military bases of Western Europe receive the worst of the damage.
Left and right wing revolutions spread across much of the world, before long Putin's government falls to a broad coalition of groups united around an immediate end to the fighting. China and what's left of the West rush to ally with various revolutionary groups and legacy governments to build up spheres of influence in the inevitable cold war, but with the US having lost D.C. and most major cities, it is ultimately unable to suppress domestic revolutions as normal and several breakaway states form which push for peace with China.
The right wing 'loyalist' factions never manage to cohere effectively largely due to in-fighting within the intelligence community, which ultimately splinters into a thousand disparate micro-Gladios, some able to do damage but not a serious threat to the new order. Some stable powers continue to exist outside China's control, such as like Iran and Israel, but the writing is on the wall for a move to the Chinese lead era where most of the world styles themselves along the lines of Socialism with [nationality] Characteristics.
Eventually a Sankarist pan-African project grows to form a new de-facto superpower in the world. They become the leading voice declaring that, with the global dictatorship of the proletatiat largely achieved, the time has come to begin the dissolution of disparate national governments in favour of a system of global institutions, with regional organizations being instituted only for particular reasons as ad-hoc and temporary projects. In practice this is an attack on the continued toleration of a bourgeois class in China and several other states, with the view in Africa being that their abolitionist (of private property) model has by now proven itself superior to the 'pet-capitalism' retained in Chinese economics, which they increasingly see as both inefficient and offensive.
The debate is never really resolved, but neither does it escalate into hostility in trade or military terms. Ultimately interest in it simply wanes as the elder bourgeois begin to die off. Between the increasing material irrelevance of their capital to the economy and its growing uselessness as a signifier of status, the younger bourgeois come to see the whole thing as little more than a quaint family tradition. Private property fades to become just an esoteric form of personal property and then to nothing, having no existence left except in video game mechanics.
I watched your movie with my younger nephews and nieces, it was alright but you should have made it more communist. Why didn't you eat the landlord?
They cut the fking thing out
Goddamn libs also made me smaller to fit into the nyc backdrops
should have posted it before the invasion if you wanted credit, smh
My next prediction Zelensky signs a peace treaty with Putin, Azov wants to assassinate him and he runs to asylum in the US and hosts SNL
