A few months ago I wrote a post about what happens after
Trump passes away. Since then the economic, political and geopolitical landscape
began to fall off a cliff.
There needs to be some kind of come to reckoning about what
we do as a country once mother nature takes over. He is not young and contrary
to White House nonsense, he is not healthy.
And once he passes here is the short list of problems, if
things stand as they do, Vance faces:
Iran war: Trump has put us in a precarious
situation as it is and once he passes we have no real strategy. Not an iota of
one to start negotiating. Vance has different viewpoints than Trump also. And
then there is Hegseth, what might he do in the immediate aftermath. Will anyone
in the Pentagon step and in and try to manage the war? Iran may be just sitting
back and waiting for this moment because they could come out of this real strong
due to Trump’s lack of vision and Vance’s ideology of no foreign wars. The
Strait of Hormuz will be under their control for decades possibly. The whole
war is a disaster to begin with and Trump passing will force , to even have a
chance of salvaging anything, into a very forceful stance. And yes what does that
exactly mean? The repercussions of this war are an immediate and long term
disaster.
Economy: First the war has driven
up the price of oil, gas and food worldwide. Vance may do something stupid to
try and resolve the war to get shipping through the Strait of Hormuz so he can
hold on to any inkling of a presidential bid. We are about to lose on three or
four fronts economically on the world stage and only very stringent matters
will let us hold on to some semblance of respectability. China is loving this
and my bets are on they loved having Trump over to gauge his health to see how
fast they can move on Taiwan, world trade and more.
Putin and Europe: Putin is getting
desperate and in a bid to save his Presidency he may take even more action in
Europe while we are dealing with Trump’s death. No one in Trump’s
administration has the cajones to do something about him or will care. Europe
will be hung out to dry and either get mired in a slow moving WWI scenario or
come out with a quick victory and manages to save their identity. Unfortunately
not their economy unless their victory is complete and they can open their doors
to a new Russia so new trade with Russian oil and gets off the Middle East
pipeline. If Europe survives Putin and a more open Russia emerges then that is
good for Europe, yet all countries not named Iran in the middle east will
suffer a setback as they lose customers for their oil. Iran will still be the main supplier of oil
to China and will be openly competing for other Asian markets. This can only
embolden Iran and with us out of the picture some of the other Middle Eastern countries
are in trouble.
Israel: Just saying the name almost
says enough. Once Trump is gone, what is Netanyahu’s fate? What is Israel’s
fate? Does Iran rebound enough to repress their surrogates attacking Israel?
Will we even respond? Could we respond?
Japan and Korea: Not as dramatic as
Israel, yet they are both facing what will be a very emboldened North Korea.
Domestic political turmoil: Who
survives Trump? Are there real Trump allies willing to create violence in
America for their benefit? Who fights
them? Then there is the duopoly’s lack of vision for a post Trump world.
Neither side is ready with a plan going forward to address the above listed
issues or even the most basic of issues like restoring law and order, punishing
the grift and fraud, actually passing a domestic budget and whatever else may
come up. We still need healthcare costs addressed, social security improved,
better education, the infamous infrastructure addressed, homelessness, food
security, small and mid size businesses helped, tax reform, campaign finance
reform and imagine the financial markets in the immediate aftermath. Who does
what? Does the market crash?
In my original post I just talked about the very basics.
Since then, I have only seen one or two articles maybe talking about a post
Trump world. We were unprepared then and Trump has only made things worse. The
possibility is there for complete domestic upheaval and no one in this country
has the political clout to pull together enough of a coalition to maintain some
stability.
And this could happen at any moment. Am I doom speaking? Yes
a bit. Could more practical heads manage to salvage the aftermath? Yes, but we
need to start planning now to help that become a reality.
And the duopoly is not ready. Too many Republicans have succumbed
to Trump’s influence over the party to even begin to think, much less act productively.
Their desire for power has rendered them incapable of governing responsibly.
The Democrats are clueless. Sure they talk pretty words, have wonderful platitudes,
shout to high heaven about the evils facing us, without even knowing the true
depth of those evils and then more down to earth, have no real plan. They think
they do, they talk like it, but really pull back the curtain and again it is
high minded words and platitudes. And the current Youtube and other blogs from
the ideological spectrum only add to the partisan madness. They are not independent.
They are noise. They complain about the other side or just make stuff up for an
audience. So many pro and con to Trump are so tied to him that what do they do
afterwards?
I have tried throwing out ideas to take better paths
historically in this blog. Yet some of them are very grandiose. Yet who knows
maybe some large projects may help bring us together as a country. If we all
started working on the same goals instead of pointing fingers at each other we
may live on. For now though, natural disasters and more are going to test us
each and every time. And slowly due to Trump’s rot on our infrastructure, it
will catch up to us.
Hopefully my pessimism is misguided and we drudge our way
through and come out on the other side with some semblance of our country. It
looks bleak to me, yet though I still have hope. If saner heads on either or
both parties or my dream of more independents and third parties come to
fruition then we can rebuild this great country because more often than not, if
a people survive a calamity they usually build something better. Or let’s hope
so.
Cheers
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