At the rate things are going there won’t be much left of the world by Trump’s inauguration. Israelis, ISIS, Turks and Iranians are scrambling to claim parts of Syria. Romania has overturned their elections because the people chose the right-wing candidate. Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan are seething with unrest. South Korea has arrested the head of the military and is investigating their president for treason. France’s parliament was dissolved through a vote of no-confidence and Trump has told Canada and Mexico that if they want any more money from him, they’ll have to agree to become parts of the United States. And that’s on top of the usual carnage in Ukraine and the threat of nuclear war if NATO continues to allow their long-range missiles to target Russia.
Well, I don’t suppose that the State Department and the Department of Defense have anything to do with any of these events. Do you?
I think what the geniuses in those departments don’t realize is that Trump thrives on chaos. I forget which of Bill Clinton’s psychopathic advisors said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” But Donald Trump has learned that lesson by heart. I suspect that he will be using his authority to apply leverage on his enemies foreign and domestic. The crises he will put to good use are the migrant crisis and the wars in Ukraine and Syria.
This week Trump met with France’s Macron and Ukraine’s Zelensky. I think he gave both of them the same general message; prepare to make a deal with Putin. We don’t know what Macron’s reaction was but Zelensky went ballistic. He was so upset that he declared that Biden must allow Ukraine to become part of NATO before Trump gets into office. Well, that’s not going to happen. What will happen is unknown. The neo-cons unleashed the chaos in Syria in hopes it would deter Putin from continuing his progress in Ukraine. It doesn’t seem to have worked. Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove and several other major Ukrainian defensive centers are on the edge of collapse and there does not seem to be a pause in sight. The Ukrainians have decided to drop the draft age to eighteen to provide an additional 200,000 soldiers for the front but there seems to be a significant desertion rate occurring and mass surrenders are also increasing. I suspect by January 20th things will be increasingly desperate for the Ukraine.
As for Syria, well, I hope Trump will be wise enough to leave Syria to those who want to burn their fingers on a boiling pot. We have no business there. And it looks like a trap for anyone who is stupid enough to think that trying to referee a free-for-all of raving religious lunatics is a good idea. Think of Iraq.
As for his domestic enemies, cutting off the checks to sanctuary states like New York and California should be great sport. New York especially has gone out of its way to antagonize Donald Trump through lawfare. The least he could do is return the favor. Something tells me there is an imbalance between what Albany can do to Trump and what Trump can inflict on the Empire state.
And finally, there is Trump’s main event; waging war on the Deep State. There is the place where his personal desire for revenge and the country’s interests intersect beautifully. Any and all havoc he can wreak on those bureaucratic tyrants will lessen their ability to torture us. I think the DOGE initiative is exactly the way to tame the monster in Washington. Freeze their salaries, brutally slash their ranks and reduce their power. Actually, closing down divisions and departments would even be better.
Well, it’s a little more than a month so we’ll continue to hear about the chaos that the desperate minions in Washington are unleashing on the world. But their days are numbered and they know it.
Well said OCF. I’d like to thing that Trump will take retribution on these aholes around the world and with the deep state, but I think Trump is actually too forgiving much of the time. He’s tough with words, but not always tough in action unlike our enemies who’ll stop at nothing. In that regard, I’m not confident at all that we’ll see accountability for all those who unleashed warfare on Trump and his allies. I want it, but he’s too much of dealmaker and not the dictator they told us he is and will be. In some ways, I’d… Read more »
Yes. He has not acted as tough as he’s talked.
I forget which of Bill Clinton’s psychopathic advisors said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s press secretary. Went on to become mayor of Chicago if my memory serves me true.
Oh boy. I’m starting to get my regimes mixed up. Then again Bill Clinton, Barack Obama. Both of them pushed us down the same awful road. Just different mile markers.