RE: Stranger than Fiction
You are viewing a single comment's thread:
- But this isn't a movie, this shit is actually happening in real life, publicly, broadcast globally. It is like the US government has watched too many movies, and are acting on what they have seen.*
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan came immediately to mind as I read down those lines, before it was even mentioned.
It's disheartening to note the rise in physical violence across the US since Trump took office. I don't think it's unconnected to the personality of the US President, his warmongering disposition and tendency to violence, maybe not in action but at least in words.
I followed the 2021 elections and saw how Trump verbally abused Biden and how his words had divisive influences on the American populace. To be honest, Trump isn't refined enough in character to be US president. He might have been a better fit for a communist dictator or such. Sadly, many deluded Americans approve of his methods and actions and are singing his praises and urging him on.
A year or so now as president, he's failed to end some of the unrests in parts of the world he vowed to end. Like the war in Ukraine or the unrest in the middle East, both of which I think he said, in a debate with Kamala I viewed live on Twitter, he'd end in 24 hours of assuming the presidency. Instead, fresh conflicts have sprouted, the Iran-Israeli altercation, now Venezuela.
Venezuela might prove to be a global disaster now several of the other world's great Powers, like China and Russia are being drawn in. And he had the guts to boast in a video the American military is the best and most sophisticated and most lethal in the world. He's forgetten about the peace that was one of the main talking points of his election campaign.
Trump might just be the ruin of America and maybe the world, supposing a world war breaks out. There are a lot of similarities between Trump and Hitler though they are subtle ones and biased people will most likely not see. Only difference is Trump has the means to do worse than what Hitler attempted.
That’s a heavy take, and I totally get where you’re coming from. It’s honestly a bit rattling how much weight a leader’s words carry when things feel this shaky on a global scale. At the end of the day, words can either glue us together or pull us apart.
Some folks argue that in a world full of 'big players' with expansionist vibes, playing nice isn't always enough. It’s that classic "peace through strength" mindset—the idea that you need a solid backbone to keep others from overstepping.
Even if we don't see eye-to-eye on Trump’s style or the whole military side of things, I think we’re both on the same page: "we just want the chaos to stop and some stability to kick in". Maybe the real answer is somewhere in the middle. Anyway, props to you for keeping the dialogue open. We definitely need more of this.
Yeah. Thanks for reading.
I think what many miss on the "peace through strength" is the underlying motto attached to it. That is "no empathy". That would entail, once started, there's no turning back, there's no empathy that can be attached. What happens, happens, it's a deal with it situation regardless of who gets hurt.
I agree with your points.
I think basically at the moment, the USA wants the American continent (North + South America, Canada and Greenland), Russia wants Europe and China wants Asia - and I'm not sure they're going to help or hinder each other (not in any expensive way anyway). It's going to be up to all the other countries to try and stop this from happening.
If moves are made, considering how impatient governments (people) are these days, and how large egos have become - it is going to be very, very bloody.
Yeah, that "every man's right to bear arms, or not to be infringed upon", with today's technology, isn't going to be a whole lot of help. It might help to keep the hoodlums at bay, but reality is when Trump said you can keep your guns and god, he probably closed the door behind him and laughed his ass off.
It's a highly precarious situation. It needs to be handled delicately.
I'd think if this was part of the planned global realignment(s) of global power players, your assessment is real close to mine. But while they continue in their struggle for that realignment, the other countries are more incline right now to be setting up digitalization systems. Which will ultimately be used to control the populace behaviors. Basically, these activities distract the populace one from the other in these implementation plans.
I will though, go way, way out on a limb here, sort of humorously, when people talk of where the safest place to be in any nuclear war, I'd be inclined at this moment to say, in any situation where we'd see things happen in this country we've never seen before, the safest place to be would be close to a major data processing center. They aren't going to blow up that which they plan to use to imprison the population digitally.
But if China was worried about the USA's AI being superior, wouldn't they specifically target the data centers? Or vice versa?
I actually think the safest place in a nuclear war would be a country like New Zealand where apparently a lot of billionaires have built their bunkers.
I think though, that there are no winners in a nuclear war so I'm hoping that things don't get that bad.
I don't think the billionaires, if they built bunkers anywhere in the world, are planning on allowing the general populations to share them with them. China's been at it for a while now, I'd think their AI is likely superior to ours. I don't know, I am not an expert on AI and who is doing what. I honestly don't think they'll throw around nuclear weapons, would take way to long to recover from the radiation in any given area. I think most AI data centers will be built in Greenland if Trump gets his hands on it like he wants to. The climate is perfect for data centers, and the availability of water isn't such a big issue. Expanding an electrical grid would seem to be their most concern. I think that's his real reason for wanting Greenland. Will keep the centers from sabotage when people start fighting back on the digital imprisonment that will stem from it. If it's full of crucial minerals data centers require, it's a one stop shop from the natural resource, to manufacturing (natural resources), direct to data centers. Lots of space for a huge expansion of data centers there. If this was just about mining for mineral for national security, they'd just propose deals to Greenland to be a supplier. Also I would imagine that any data centers backing national security, military, are probably underground.
I think that this is what many of the various "lobby" interest groups are hoping for. War means increased wealth creation opportunities for them, and they expect they will survive.
*I think one of the main differences between Hitler and Trump though, is that Hitler has some kind of ideal about improving the world. Trump, is about enriching himself and feeding his ego.
I've often attributed what Jared Kushner said, that they have gone over the history of the last seventy five years to see what worked and what didn't work as a similar conclusion that you came to. Rebuilding after the war and the industrial revolution worked, and I'd be inclined to believe they could be using the green energy transition similarly positioned to work.
I don't think it's a coincidence that areas we seen conflict arise back in his first term are arising again. Los Angeles, Portland, Minneapolis, those areas all have one common thing, they are all major import/exports centers in the US. If we really are going to see things in this country we've never seen before, as Trump has stated, how completely unhinged and brazen he has gotten in his second term, there is a possibility something may go down before the midterms. I am not of any understanding that the vast majority of people are going to let this one slide, if it's not dealt with, I think there's a potential here we'll see more people voting the democrat ticket than we seen with Joe Biden. I say that as a republican, who pledged never to vote again, but I will break that promise to myself if nothing gets done about this, and I won't be voting republican.