Commentary Washington, Beijing, and New Delhi may all undertake major, high-risk adventures within the next year. Other powers will use the global chaos to chance their own defensive or offensive opportunism. Periods of great dislocation always cause sudden, seemingly unpredictable decisions by national leaders, anxious to retrieve declining situations or to take advantage of opportunities. The greater whirlwind of change began as the Cold War gave way to “the new total war of the 21st century.” Then, the U.S. 2020 election year’s “coincidence” with the COVID-19 global mass psychosis created an epicenter to that whirlwind. The sudden loss of U.S. national prestige caused by the manner of the August 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops and civilian personnel from Afghanistan caused President Joe Biden to begin initiatives domestically and internationally to recover the authority of the United States. Biden is being pressed to rebuild that authority before the November 2022 Congressional …