June 2025. The night sky over Iran ignited as America’s B-2 bombers shattered the crust of the earth with bunker-busters designed to erase history. Fordow and Natanz vanished into molten pits, and with them, the last pretense of diplomacy. Iran responded with fury — not just with missiles, but with meaning. Hezbollah lit northern Israel ablaze, oil terminals burned from the Gulf to Haifa, and cyberattacks shut down hospitals in New York and water systems in Berlin. Within days, every major U.S. base in the Middle East was under siege. The world realized, too late, that World War III had already begun — not as a war of nations, but of systems, currencies, civilizations, and narratives. There would be no fronts. Only fires.

2026. America, drunk on its own exceptionalism, staggered into a multi-theater catastrophe. Russia made its move on the Baltics. China closed the South China Sea and placed Taiwan under siege. The Strait of Hormuz became a graveyard of oil tankers, sending global prices into the stratosphere. The dollar collapsed under its own weight. Countries fled from U.S. debt like rats from a sinking Leviathan. BRICS, now swollen with defectors, launched a gold-backed currency called Solari. The Empire had no answer. The stock market died in a single weekend. Cities went dark. Grocery stores emptied in hours. Martial law became the new American dream.

2028. The United States ceased to exist in the way it had for a century. Texas refused federal control. California declared itself a sanctuary republic. Militias clashed with federal troops in the Midwest. The Second Civil War didn’t look like 1861. It looked like Mad Max filmed on TikTok. Washington, D.C., became a fortress city surrounded by barricades and bitterness. The military fractured — some loyal to Trump’s emergency government, others defecting to regional authorities. Europe burned in riots as food prices spiked and NATO disintegrated. Paris became ungovernable. Berlin shut its borders. A new dark age settled in — not of ignorance, but of overload.

By 2032, the world had become unrecognizable. A Global North-South inversion had occurred. While the West tore itself apart, African and Southeast Asian nations formed regional power clusters, largely ignored and thus spared. The Middle East became a nuclear graveyard. Jerusalem was glass. Mecca was abandoned. Iran’s leadership was gone — but its ghost lived on in global resistance movements. The U.S. was no longer feared. It was pitied — a post-apocalyptic archipelago of broken states, faith cults, and hyper-surveilled smart cities ruled by oligarchs. The age of American gods was over.