2005 Inaugural and Ensuing Events/Next Poster Adds To Story

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...expand the CCCP to include all of former communist Europe, Finland, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia and a large section of northern China, as well as Sapporo and the Korean Peninsula. Last but not least, Russian forces are starting to be massed on the western shore of the Bering Strait, preparing for a eastward strike.

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Meanwhile, a break-in at the Belarusian embassy in Switzerland, intel from CIA moles in the Kremlin and emails between Casey's office and Russia make Putin's scheme known to President Santorum...but, it isn't revealed to the public. With Santorum's pants on fire, he either has to withdraw Casey or face the music.

But remarkably, there is a period of relative stability in America, until one night when someone at the Pentagon spills coffee over a machine, causing a cruise missile to be accidentally launched from Alaska, hitting one batallion on the other side of the Bering Strait. Immediately, Putin uses this as an opportunity to declare war on NATO. World War Three is on.

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...Santorum is secretly videotaped to be gay. To days later at a press conference he tearfully apologizes, and, showing a bit of decency, resigns and is whisked away to MacDill AFB in Florida, where he undergoes a cosmetic surgery and changes his name, and disappears from the public arena.

However, one question remains: who will take up this job? With the Vice-Presidency vacant, it is up to the Speaker of the House to take the oath. None other than the one-and-only...

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At this time the American economy has fallen into freefall due to the war with Russia. The massive increase in military spending, combined with Congress' refusal to raise the limit on the national debt, which by now stands at $10.5 trillion, causes the government to default. Panicked bondholders in Japan frantically dump their bonds, causing the economy to spiral into chaos and the government to print money. On one day, major stock market indices slide by almost 35%, while general economic life slows to a standstill. With the possibility of a Kucinich presidency, investors panick even further.

Meanwhile, a British nuclear submarine shoots down a MiG fighter jet over the Baltic Sea, while Russian submarines are deployed in the area.

Before long NATO and Russian submarines meet off northern Poland and engage in a fierce battle. Armed hostilities in World War Three have commenced.

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Taking advantage of the madness stateside, Russian landing crafts rumble towards Nome, make a landing, and armoured vehicles trudge towards eastward encountering sporadic fighting from an American military without any central commanding. Cruise missiles start raining down on American bases in Iraq and Turkey, as well as the site of Iran's nuclear reactor.

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...the eastern United States continues to spin into chaos, with armed militias taking over control of the former United States Government. After a week the stockpile of nuclear warheads at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is looted by armed bandits. Little did they know that those nukes would fall into the hands of...