by CMay | 2026-01-28 03:28:35+00:00
Well, let me give you my perspective.

Congress has been in a state of relative gridlock for many years, across multiple administrations whether republican or democrat. As a result, presidents have increasingly been leading by executive order rather than legislation. That is not Trump's fault, that is just the state of the country.

This means that not only has the number of problems the US faces been increasing, but those problems are not being addressed. Meanwhile, Russia and China see this as a weakness of the US and seem to be scaling up militarily for expansion.

If this is a signal of the potential for a world war in the coming decade, it is NOT optional for the US to do everything that it can to prepare for it. First to deter it. Second, if it does occur, to be ready or at least have a head start. This alone is more important than most other domestic issues, because it could mean 10s of millions of lives or worse.

Manufacturing base, national debt, immigration, military readiness, military spending of our allies, enemy basing points within our region and many other issues become critical in wartime.

You can see how the US is trying to address those things. We're devaluing the US dollar and implementing tariffs so that it makes business sense to manufacture stuff in the US again while reducing China's trade abuses. Existing manufacturing capacity was critical in World War 2. Trying to reduce government expenses and establish other income sources for the government. Hazing our allies to give them a tougher push so they'll invest more in military spending, since strong allies makes us all stronger together and a better deterrence. Putting pressure on Venezuela and Cuba so Russia is under more economic pressure to agree to a peace deal in Ukraine and China loses a critical piece of any long term multi-hemisphere strategy.

People thinking that Trump is a king or dictator are delusional, because the US doesn't work that way. If Trump rounded up thousands of US citizens and simply burned them alive, he would be arrested by the military and impeached by congress, because there are red lines that basically everyone agrees on.

Talk about taking over Canada or Greenland is just rhetoric to get better deals and improve ally strength, because this is what Donald Trump has been doing since the 1980s. Doing something with Venezuela is part of basic US national strategy, not simply a spontaneous whim of Donald Trump.

Watch more 3 hour lectures, analysts, official talks, traditional journalism. Watch less social media, emotion oriented youtube, entertainment news, comedy news, etc. Garbage in, garbage out. Seek out high quality truth oriented information that lets you form your own conclusions, and get better at the skill of forming your own conclusions.

The reality of what's going on in the US and in the world is just very different than it is often being presented. There is an information war occurring and it is battling over your emotions and your opinions.

This doesn't mean you have to like a current president personally or morally, or even agree with everything they are doing, but at least you can gain more perspective around what is real and what is not.