It is possible to take this even one step further. The last U.S. president for example exclaimed, "China is raping us" and other angry nonsense to which I wondered how will that translate to a thin skinned authoritarian. Well they stopped taking our garbage and cracked down on Hong Kong shortly afterwards.

Then the current U.S. president starts off by declaring "Putin has no soul". Again how does that translate ? Could that blunder be the match that set off this bomb. And in the latest state of the union we proudly brag how we have destroyed their currency. Why!

So we do this shit over and over again. American politicians and the media dismiss, lie, and humiliate. Why does the Muslim world hate us ? "Because they hate freedom and are jealous of our success" according to our self-destructive trope. I could go on.

I think it was Y.N. Harari that claimed historians make a living by connecting cause and effects that are sufficiently equal in proportion to be plausible explanations. Maybe they are right. Or maybe, he contemplates, that it's trivial random causes more akin to chaos theory.