At least a year and a half ago, I speculated that it wouldn't make sense for the Dems to allow themselves to lose the 2022 (gateway to 2024) election.
I speculated that if they couldn't guarantee a win by other means, they would probably go for martial law to (indefinitely) "postpone" the election. At least that is what I would do if I'd committed multiple felonies in order to seize power and had no chance of winning, nor stealing, the 2022 senate races.
So, with 1 month to go, I am going to call a "heads up" warning that the next month would be PERFECT timing for a false flag which can be blamed on the Russians and used as an excuse for martial law. Martial law, delaying the election, would be the next best thing to a Democratic victory.
P.S. I will be VERY happy to be wrong. Indeed, I expect to be wrong. On the other hand, I will do my best to be prepared mentally for a surprise.
Precedent: 911, Covid, and, according to some historians, Pearl Harbor were effectively false flags, either started or abetted by the US itself. And let's not forget Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
P.P.S. From Putin's standpoint, even if he were going to confront the US directly, it wouldn't make any sense for him to do that before the November elections. He is fighting, primarily, the Dems/Deepstate. He would vastly prefer a clean Republican sweep of Congress in November, and he wouldn't deliberately do anything to interfere with that.