Pessimist

I hate to be the one to say this... but I am beginning to think that everything Donald Trump is doing that he claims should win him a Nobel Peace Prize is going to fail... unless suddenly "war is peace".

Everything. Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, India, China, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, the EU, even America... all of it.

World War III is about to begin, and Donald Trump is the man who is making it happen.

And I'm beginning to think that all his trade negotiations are going to meet with devastating blowback triggering a financial crisis worse than the one at the end of the George W. Bush administration in 2008.

I just can't convince myself that all his shallow blustering will succeed - key word "shallow".

And I used to be a Trump supporter until he fired me (figuratively speaking) and a big bunch of his supporters over the Epstein thing. Maybe that's it. Maybe I've been blinded by my own resentment over being treated that way.

But I doubt that's it.

I'm more inclined to think that Trump is about to discover that he is a victim of the Peter principle. Everything now is over his head - and he doesn't seem to have a clue that it's happening.

Pride cometh before the fall.

I tend to think that Trump thought everybody was going to revere him and do whatever he wanted them to do. It's not turning out that way and it's pissing him off. Trump on the campaign trail promised he would meet with Putin and settle the Ukraine war. OK, so how many times has Trump met with Putin to negotiate a settlement? Once in the past nine months? Seriously? And even then he didn't take Putin seriously. He expected Putin to do what he was told to do. He didn't bother to listen to Russia's needs. Just, hey Putin, concede to Zelinski's demands, man. Don't argue.

Trump seems to think that Putin won't defend Russia when NATO invades it, that Russia will just fold and let Europe and the US (and the wealthy Jewish oligarchs that run the world) plunder it.

I remember a talk that I had one time with the guy I took a hunter safety course from. He was a serious sort of guy, a bit of a GI Joe type, even brought in his 50 cal. one time to impress us, and the topic of Putin came up. He sternly warned me to never trust Putin. Since Putin was about the only actual Christian leader in the entire world I didn't want to believe that his advice was sound but now I understand what he meant. Putin, like most Russians, will fight to the death rather than surrender. He will nuke the world if that's what it takes.

But you know, maybe I'm wrong about all this. Maybe the world will finally start behaving Donald Trump.

Maybe...

not too likely, but maybe...

or maybe I'm just wrong about this whole big mess...

key word "shallow"