Posted on 04/17/2026 10:39:47 AM PDT by ransomnote
I hope everyone who can do so will attend the Great American State Fair and take others, particularly the younger generation, so they can take part in a pivotal historic celebration, in honor of the triumph of the American Revolution 2.0.
This is spot on. I think it’s been pretty clear for awhile now, but only recently has it been screamingly obvious. The post-WWII era is over. Trump is re-making the world. And things are going to be better.
The only thing that can really stop him is the Republican Party. And they just might succeed.
Make no mistake. This marks the end of tightly integrated international trade.
Should have included Venezuela in the title. It was a critical foundation before the move on Iran to gain control of China’s lifeline.
WE NEED GREENLAND though to increase the scope of our GOLD DOME air defense system..
Trump is the FIX IT man Gotta love it !
-PJ
Also Venezuela and Cuba. Probably also add in Nicaragua.
Biggest victory since WW2.
Go to DC? Not for any reason, personal safety being #1.
The Trump appointees I respect the most are democrats..imagine that...we should do away with the 2 party system and vote only for the candidate.
Is this the entrance to the seven years of peace?
“This marks the end of tightly integrated international trade.”
All of us have benefited from that trade, but a significant number have been greatly harmed by it. The way trade is formerly and is currently implemented has been a double-edged sword. It made things like cell phones available cheaply to millions. The cost of that was hundreds of thousands of Chinese who are very nearly slave labor. (Not to discount the Chinese labor that is actually slave labor.) The other cost of that is the thousands of lost American jobs. It used to be someone with only a high school education started in the mail room and twenty years later might be running the company. All of those ladders to success went abroad.
The cultural and economic impact to America’s working class is huge. Recovering from this will take decades and the problem is that governments and regulations are dead set against starting a company or hiring people. And the attempt to tax everything will make recovering even more difficult. Somehow, we need to get government and probably unions out of the equation or we’ll be sitting on disaster for decades to come.
I asked my mother how her family survived the Depression. She told us about the many, many jobs her father undertook. Each of those jobs today requires a license, insurance and bonds. Some of them require a contractor’s license and those are purposely lengthy and hard to get. The problems facing “recovery” are lengthy and structural.
That was more defensive and mercantile than strategic. With our carriers now to big for the Panama Canal, it holds less strategic importance than it once did.
I wouldn’t bet on it. My bet has nothing to do with Trump. Peace in the world for that long a time is just very unlikely.
The doom and groomers were afraid of tge Soviet Union. Reagan did not. He knew they were weak. The State Dept. (the biggest deal state org) thwarted him at any chance.
Trump sees China the same way. In just 6 weeks with Iran, China is being squeezed.
Deep state not deal
That is no different than Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz.
-PJ
“We’re watching the world reset in real time.”
I’ve been thinking the same thing for a few days now.
Excellent point. Thanks for sharing.
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