Response to a Friend’s Facebook page/post.
I DON’T see hints of a world war. Such as those events that blew up into WW1 and WW2. What I see is Donald Trump shaking hands with heads of state and a dictator is taken out and he isn't cool with NATO (he cut U.S. share from 22 percent to 16 percent in 2019). War in Ukraine or unrest in the Middle East were/are brought by a number of factors. It'd be sheer cluelessness to pin those on Trump or any POTUS, for that matter. Geopolitical shudder isn't that linear.
This divide in U.S. society was actually predicted by (revered historian) Howard Zinn before he died in 2010. Repeat: 2010 or before Mr Trump was even considered in GOP’s shortlist for a presidential candidacy. I am not American-born. I survived a 20-year dictatorship (real hardships). Yet I am baffled why Americans are this divided. Probably we don't worry as much about food on the table as others, so we have a lot of time to fight and talk about all-Trump. Meanwhile, he is compared with Adolf Hitler, as though the world doesn't know who Hitler was. Such a weird comparison.
I don't really pay attention to Nobel. I bet Bob Dylan would have tossed his in the dumpster. He didn't even want to accept it. All this Trump/Machado Nobel crap is media rabblerouse. And Trump seems like riding along with the insults. Such nonsense is bloated like a major American event! As though other heads of state were never recipients of "unexpected" gifts in the past.
The truths that are happening? As America wrestles with its own shadow, continually widening cracks between them, China surges on. China doesn't ambition to take over the world. But economic-wise, China and BRICS have been wobbling G7's geopolitical clout. America, it seems, is more concerned with internal fighting and demonization of Donald Trump. By the time we wake up and he is gone, the fissures are already so wide and bloodied that healing would take generations.
But no civil war. But, I fear hate in the streets. Mental crisis that implodes and explodes out there. Yet still, we will blame Left or Right for those horror. Or blame Trump. ☮️☮️☮️
