One possibility about its relationship with the Fourth Turning: The problem people want to solve isn't about North Korea itself. There's no groundswell of support for invading in order to bring them under the control of the United States, South Korea, or NATO. Nonetheless, nobody is happy about the perceived submission to them. Instead, this is about control. People want the freedom they are accustomed to and will resist efforts to attack it. If the Feds try something, similar reactions are likely. That might be what's going on in our collective heads, which could mean that this Crisis will be very different from WWII.
There are those who think the cycles are part of larger cycles, with consecutive Fourth Turnings not being quite as similar as alternate ones. One justification is that there are people alive from the previous Fourth Turning, who might both remember the triumphs and recall the difficulties of that particular fight. If so, this next one could we will be more like American Civil War or even the Glorious Revolution - not a war against an external enemy, but an internal fight over the power and abilities of government. (Which, perhaps, was the case with the American Revolution as well.)
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