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Donald Trump is following a plan much more detailed and comprehensive than it would appear from simple slogans such as “MAGA.” Faced with resource depletion and ecosystemic collapse, the world’s economic machine is sinking fast. Governments are now acting as passengers of the Titanic, scrambling to save themselves the best they can, even if that means pushing someone else underwater. So the USA is retreating inside its immediate sphere of influence and Europe finds itself in a bad position without the resources to rearm and defend itself. The USA will try to expand northwards into Greenland and perhaps Canada in order to take their natural resources. But if Trump were to say this to the American people, they would think him feeble-minded as they did with Carter. Instead he uses propaganda to blame the situation on whichever “enemies” come to hand, and the people cheer him on.
Imperialism is bad but the collapse of empires can lead to centuries long dark ages. The fact of the matter is the dissolutionment of the United States would be a decades long process to minimize the impact of its collapse, instead we may very well see it gone within a couple of months at this rate depending on how things turn out.
Already most international trust is gone, it will be at least a decade before that comes back.
If everything stays on the current track the US will self impose as much of a full isolationist policy as it can within this “presidential” term, this is to fully focus on the internal situation and destroy any option of rebellion and dissent.
Police/National Guard will be strictly enforcing presidential decrees and oppressing the American people .
Their armored personnel carriers and gatling guns will come in handy now.
In a few years workers will be forced into (cheaply bought up) government/factory housing because their own properties will be too expensive to keep.
And with the upcoming low wages the need for 4 jobs just to be able to buy groceries will keep them locked in fear of losing any pay they have or the house they may rent.
By the time the things inside the US are fully locked in, the tax breaks have fully caught up, losses of foreign trade incomes and loss of military sales all stack up.
So the US is declared bankrupt by the outside world because the trust is gone a long time now and the US makes it clear there is no intention to pay its debts.
This will cause the US to look outward again, not to make allies but to conquer lands for products/goods that it still has a (growing) shortage of.
If there was no moment for a true WW3 before this, it will be the moment it starts:
The US will declare war on multiple countries and attack them in small scale skirmishes. Meanwhile China has massively invaded Taiwan, the US will not be able to stop it. Crazy Kim launches missiles at Japan and South Korea just to join the chaos, Iran openly attacks Israel with backing of multiple other Islamic states, they have not forgotten Gaza’s destruction. And Russia profits by invading eastern Europe unimpeded. Armies of 80.000 Europeans are no match for a force of 1.300.000 Russian cannon fodder.
This all sounds like futuristic doomspeak, but it all could happen within 8 years. China has been preparing for a large conflict to happen around 2030, even moving its industry deep inland. Trump is well on his way to demolish in 2 years any international trust that the US will do the right thing or can be called upon for help. He will leave/dismantle NATO and be excluded from a new NATO variant that buys its weapons elsewhere. Putin has proclaimed he expects to fight whomever within 4 years.
It is 2025 now, and things are very clear that Trump’s hunger for power will be the catalyst accelerating everyone to a very destructive WW3.