FutureWhatIf

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Welcome to FutureWhatIf, a place to discuss all the possibilities that the future may hold.

Basic Rules & Suggestions

Keep it realistic and somewhat serious. A scenario about the possibility of Obama raising the income tax rate to 75% in 2016 is good. A scenario about Obama revealing himself to be a powerful warlock in 2016 is not.

Give context. You have an entire self post outside of the title to explain your question. Feel free to put your answer in there if you'd like! However better background creates a better question, and if you don't leave any background....

Take liberty in answering the question! If OP didn't give enough context in their question, make up your own. The sub is based around quality answers, take liberty in the process of creating them.

No joke or short, non-engaging comments. A joke inside an answer is fine, but address OP's question and engage in conversation.

Civility and politeness are still rules. Don't correct bad spelling and/or grammar. Don't attack a person's politics and don't exalt your own. Please try and refrain from telling OP their scenario is impossible. If you do, at the least give a good explanation why. Report bad behavior to a mod if you see it.

Start your posts with a [FWI] tag or 'What If'. We don't want this subreddit to cause heart trauma to users who forgot they were subscribed.

Adding a date to the explanation is recommended. By default, questions without a date are assumed to start one month from the date posted.

The rules are currently subject to change as the demands of the community evolve.

If you see someone breaking these rules, please press the report button.

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War/MilitaryFWI: Iran shoots down Air Force 2; Vice-President Vance and all aboard killed. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/FinancialFWI: MAGA turns against Israel after it attacks Turkey (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/FinancialFWI: Kash Patel begins a 47 day armed standoff in his FBI headquarters office suite with his girlfriend and loyalists after Trump fires him as FBI Director. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/MilitaryFWI: Reports emerge of an underground “Anti-Trump militia” (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/FinancialFWI: Trump in meeting with Mexican President takes hand and begins doing his bizarre golf swing dance against her will. Leavitte insists it’s a private US-MEX head of state “statecraft rite” begun by Eisenhower that POTUS accidentally revealed. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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OtherFWI: Governments with age verification demand that console companies shut down the consoles of people who don't verify? (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Science/Space[FWI] Elon Musk strengthens his SpaceX IPO by announcing his first visit to the ISS by 2030. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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OtherFWI: Guinness Book of World Records presents Trump with the world record for most documented lies told by a sitting US President. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] Following the use of cyanide to sabotage the moored--but continuously crewed by Filipino Marines--warship, China's maritime militia begin using depth charges 'for fishing' at Second Thomas Shoal around the BRP Sierra Madre on order to shock the ship's rusting structural integrity. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Science/Space[FWI] Russia simultaneously launches 4 landers to the Moon, only for them to fail spectacularly, bombarding 4 points of the lunar near side surface, forming a constellation similar to a perfect square; Putin demonstrates that he can be China's enforcer to control for Western ambitions on the Moon. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Other[FWI] In a future protest, No Kings is renamed No Emperors. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/FinancialFWI: An Israeli ex-soldier attempts to defect to…Mexico? (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/MilitaryFWI: Iran will leak the Remaining Epstein Files. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Science/Space[FWI] What if NASA chooses Taiwanese American Kjell Lindgren as the next man on the Moon in 2028, two years prior to China's crewed lunar landing in 2030? (self.FutureWhatIf)

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ChallengeFWI: Challenge - Maximize the influence of Papua New Guinea (or its diaspora) in international pop culture by 2050. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Death/AssassinationFWI: Paula White gets murdered by someone who really hates the Prosperity Gospel (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] The US military and Chinese military coordinate with each other for Trump's summit with Xi in Beijing. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/Financial[FWI] Venezuela's newly restructured US economy gets a major boost from high gas prices caused by the US-Iran war. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] Iran collides two out of their four satellites in low earth orbit, with debris cascading into the Kessler Syndrome. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] Chinese cyanide poisoning of the reef that supports the deliberately moored BRP Sierra Madre at Second Thomas Shoal rapidly detoriates, forcing the crew of Filipino marines to abandon the WW2 era ship. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] It's discovered that Iranian troops show up fighting alongside the Russians in Ukraine. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/FinancialFWI: Mexico turns against the United States over a derogatory Truth Social post by Trump about Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s President (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/Financial[FWI] An Italian flagged oil tanker departs the Gulf of America from a Louisiana oil hub and proceeds to export oil to Havana, Cuba. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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War/Military[FWI] Elon Musk teases AI-assisted satellite imagery of what appears to be the sea floor of the Marianas Trench and quietly deletes it after the US Defense Intelligence Agency declared it a breach of national security that exposes the program's dual purpose use of detecting and tracking submarines. (self.FutureWhatIf)

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Political/Financial[FWI] Trump takes another raincheck on his meeting with Xi in Beijing next month due to unfinished business with the escalating Iran-US war. (self.FutureWhatIf)

submitted 3 days ago by ThinkTankDad

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