Stand up to Trump already

Archimedes, the Greek mathematician and physicist once said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” So to speak, Donald Trump has done just that. He has single-handedly leveraged the world into chaos.

Two more tankers seized by the U.S., this time in international waters, it again crosses another precedent-setting boundary line. No pun intended. No one is effectively trying to stop these international law breaches by Trump.

The U.S. has previously stated that it will not tolerate the export of goods to countries it believes will benefit its enemies.

This really means any trade deal Prime Minister Mark Carney is trying to re-establish with China. Goods coming in or out between Canada and China, no doubt. Meaning in actuality, any deals that any Western Hemisphere country that the U.S. believes is a threat to them. Meaning not just militarily, but economically.

The U.S. under Donald Trump will militarily block any trade with other Western Hemisphere countries, in or out to other world nations, such as Europe. Such as anybody. Under these pretences, at the very least, Western Hemisphere countries’ economies will collapse and the U.S. will prevail as we will be unable to sustain ourselves economically or militarily. They will allow us to prosper just enough to do their bidding only. To make the bully’s lunch.

Do you know why all the United Nations and NATO countries, as well as others just talk and shake a finger? Because it’s all they are willing to do. They make themselves helpless because they want to see the U.S. back the “coalition of the willing” to defend against Russia. If Trump successfully claims Greenland and Canada, they will not be in this coalition that we are putting money into. The coalition must pay for U.S. support power. With their own money and efforts. With their sacrifice. None to the U.S. Without the U.S. even being a coalition member. They will, in theory, supply surveillance and intelligence only. For a very high price. Trump is transactional.

And so the world takes a knee to Trump. He truly is king of the world. NATO will allow Trump to take Greenland and Canada. Like they have a choice. NATO then dissolves. The power of NATO or the coalition of the willing, even though the U.S. is not to be a member, relies on the world giving the bully its lunch. Because the world coalitions such as the UN, coalition of the willing, NATO and the European Union only have power if the U.S. allows it.

The poor of what is to be the vassal Western Hemisphere will work for peanuts to benefit only the U.S. prospering. White, straight, MAGA Republican, Christian nationalists are the new Western Hemisphere order.

The white Democrats will be the workforce slaves. The non-white and non-straight will be made to disappear. It costs too much time, effort and money to imprison them.

All that was lost over two world wars, all that was gained to prevent it again, all humanity and peace. All will be lost again because of one man whose disposition is like that of a greedy petulant child with a loaded gun plunged the world into chaos from peace. He follows no rules. He has no conscience. No humanity. And with no one currently stopping him, he has no limits. The world has itself to blame for this. If the world really is powerless against this, then it never had any real power in the first place. The peaceful world order existed because of America’s huge military might and huge economic market population of customers. Without the U.S., the world has no power. The world got lazy and allowed this.

Democracy only works to stop a dictatorship if the world collectively and completely cuts off the U.S. economic and diplomatic place in the world. Military action may be required, too. Bullies only respond to force. Just like it once did with Germany after the First World War. Except the world didn’t learn. Enter the Second World War. Again, the collective world stopped them.

Apparently, they still haven’t learned. Time to stop Trump before it is too late. The world knows his real intentions. And the world’s continued passive responses get real opposing actions in response. Over and over. Every passing day, passive world response hurts itself. This is our own world leaders’ negligent fault.

It’s time for the world to stop talking and start doing before it is too late. The status quo responses of the world are not cutting it. They have no weight. Maybe no individual country can intimidate Trump, but collectively, the world can cut him off diplomatically and economically. He needs to see that he can be and will be dealt with. Otherwise, he will assume that he won’t be.

You cannot waste time and effort on building a sand castle that is threatened by each inevitable wave. You must deal with the waves by building the sand castle on top of a solid rock foundation. If the world must deal with the threat of waves prior to any plans to promote damage control, deal with Trump effectively first.

Otherwise, any plans of military and economic preparedness are just useless to help Ukraine in its future before Trump is dealt with. The money spent on a coalition of the willing will otherwise just create another useless, U.S.-dependent entity like NATO or the UN for clout. Trump will render the money spent useless if he extorts that money for support. He can and will name his price. Again, world peace would be threatened. There is no certainty of its success as long as this is the case. Shadowed again in the wake of Donald Trump’s immense and inflicting power of uncertainty, chaos and corruption.

The world needs to stop putting the cart before the horse. This should have been done a long time ago. Instead, we are where we are as a result. And unless the world effectively, permanently collectively deals with Trump first, like it wishes to do with Russia, it will otherwise be all for naught. The chaos we are in now is nothing compared to what could potentially and realistically materialize if we don’t do something now. It’s time.

The next time Donald Trump rolls the dice in his Monopoly Risk game of real world territorial conquest, the world needs to make sure he goes directly to jail, doesn’t pass go and doesn’t collect any more money, hurt any more people and is disqualified for cheating. Permanently.

WENDY FRIESEN

Brandon