The Doctor predicts the future

[dreamer_easy]

Hunter S. Thompson, writing in January 1974, speculated that Nixon might have an evil plan up his sleeve to avoid impeachment: a treaty with Russia to get its support of "an American invasion, seizure and terminal occupation of all oil-producing countries in the Middle East," solving both the energy crisis and unemployment via the draft. "... it would also crank up the economy to a war-time level and give the Federal Government unlimited 'emergency powers'." Then, posits Thompson, Russia and the US would cooperate in "a 'preemptive nuclear strike' against targets in China."

You can never be absolutely sure that HST is being completely serious, and in any case, Nixon resigned that August. But there are echoes of recent events there which gave me the creeps.