Is The World Order Changing?

 Half the people voted for Trump. If you did, is this the world you foresaw?

• He wants to be King. They could have guessed that. They should have known he only cares about one man and one man's view. Obviously. But others share parts of the view. But do you share all of it, because you no longer have a say.
  
• He wants to add territory so that he can be remembered as a conquering hero. Of course, if you read history books, those empires didn't last and the conqueror was usually killed.  Alexander the Great is remembered as a destructive despot that left a mess for others to clean up, not as a good man that moved the world forward. Just sayin'.
• He believes that the super powers (US, Russia, and China) will and should divvy up the world.
• NATO will be irrelevant. Treaties will not be respected. He does not respect them.
• As the Northwest Passage becomes more important, Greenland and Canada become vulnerable to aggression. Russia will not respect NATO. Well, of course not, if the US withdraws. And then he will argue that Canada and Greenland can only be safe if they become part of the US, which Russia would not attack dirrectly. Twisted logic for certain. In fact, NATO with Europe and the US has more than twice the money to ward off assault than the US on it's own. We certainly do not have enough money to handle China and Russia. We need help. The west is stronger as one voice. The Ukraine has been a good wake up call for Europe, but Trump heard only the message he wanted to hear, the one that could make him king.
  

• And he believes, following the Russian model, that out economy would be better off on its own.  That's just stupid and will lower our standard of living. I suspect he believe the US oligarchs will be better off. Why else would Musk be there? Obviously? There cannot be another reason. It's not government efficiency, it's privatization. Anyone who thinks isolationism and tariffs solve competitiveness problems is hopelessly closed minded; if you feel your are falling behind, dig in and get going. Figure out where your strengths lie and play to that. One of our strengths, over Russia and China, has been trust. It's hard to accomplish anything great without trust. I guess we're blowing that. 

 

I hope we can earn back the trust, as a beacon of light and a country you can safely do business with. But that will likely take 50 years. No kidding. 50 years. We still look at Russia and Germany a certain way. 50 years at least.

Note that I have skipped human rights and climate change. That's important too. But you can see the hot mess we're creating without the home front issues.

I think the above is the product of a very short time view and a egocentric mind, but I also think that the dementia is catching. The exact opposite "making America great," he is weakening the country. Instead of the leader of the greatest non-imperial empire the world has ever seen, we will soon be isolated. The accomplishments of WWII, paid in blood, and the many leaders that followed, are being washed away by a flood of blind ego. Many great Republican presidents are weeping.

We can fix this, a least some of it, in the mid-terms.