Given Trump's simple-minded "Blame China" campaign strategy, when do we think

[Atticus]

he will instigate a military confrontation in the China Sea or elsewhere?

I'm thinking September.

[Alacritous Crier]

1. I believe...

he may start a "wag the dog" conflict to distract from all his other failures but I don't think it will be with China.

[RainCaster]

2. Late September he will attack some minor podunk European country ending in "stan"

We will hear some word salad bullshit from him about a Muslim coronavirus terrorist threat.

Of course he will declare this action a "complete victory".

[dalton99a]

3. He's too chicken shit to engage a well-equipped nuclear power

[abqtommy]

4. tRUMP/reTHUG/cultist campaign strategy involves ratufcking, and lots of it. That's been their

go-to strategy for many years now. They know they can't win a fair and secure election...

[Cosmocat]

5. I don't think he will start any kind of military conflict with China

somewhere else, possibly.

But:

1) He is a raging coward bully, and as we know from being in school with these types, they don't start fights with anyone who could possibly be a threat to hit them back and hurt them. They ALWAYS pick on someone who is not able to to hurt them in any way.

2) He and his grifting spawn have far too many intertwined interests with China. They are definitely foils for him politically, but you see how he alternately kisses their asses while taking shots at them. Trump interests trump ALL.

[NCjack]

6. His little foray in Venezuela just exploded in his face. That was the softest candidate.

He has a hard-on to do some country. Maybe Greenland. That would be easy.

Or maybe Saint Pierre & Miquelon (France).

[crickets]

7. +1

[brooklynite]

8. Please...

Trump always talks tough, but he's never engaged serious military activity.

[Atticus]

9. I just don't trust him to know what's "serious". I understand he's a coward, but he's

also an idiot. "Oopsie!" Is not a term often used in international relations.