The Muggles were again at war, this one immeasurably destructive. Grindelwald’s secret agents had incited Moscow to drop an atomic bomb on Western Europe, and the Americans had retaliated. Britain and France also had nuclear arsenals now for their own defense, the secrets shared freely with them by the Americans. The Muggles had abandoned their large cities en masse, not wanting to be in obvious nuclear targets. Muggle society itself had almost collapsed, with mass absences from work and school, widespread looting, and the attendant surge in parasitical petty crime that accompanied this type of civil disorder. They did not know it, but they were primed for a super-powered global savior to restore order and rule them benevolently.