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Is Idiotic Signal Chat a Harbinger of Upcoming Disaster? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-26
Here’s a prediction: Sometime during the next four years the United States will be attacked.
It could be a terrorist attack, although maybe not as devastating as 9/11.
It could be a nuclear attack – admittedly a much smaller possibility – with the guess here being it will target the West Coast.
Why there? Because I think it could come from a country that would rather see our four-time indicted, twice-impeached, sexual assaulter, tax fraudster, insurrection inspirer, wannabe fascist dictator, convicted felon, Russian puppet, President Donald Trump or whichever Republican tries to succeed him in the White House after the 2028 election.
There’s a pretty heavy concentration of Democrats on the West Coast, so such an attack would not only wipe out a lot of anti-Trump voters and donors, but it could also produce a Wag the Dog scenario where Republicans are able to convince the country that, because we’re under attack, only Trump or another Republican should be the commander-in-chief, not some weakling, socialist Democrat.
I know, these are some pretty wild predictions, and I’m hoping I’ll be wrong. But after watching the Trump administration’s Signal chat disaster I have absolutely no hope that this administration could possibly fend off all the threats against our country.
The Signal chat episode is the product of an administration filled with corrupt, incompetent, sycophantic, idiots. Few of them are deserving of the positions they hold, and we’ll pay a price for that. How big a price remains to be seen.
These failings will no doubt lead to bigger, more serious problems. They have to. A cracked chair that can’t hold a 150-pound man isn’t going to hold one that weights 250. The possible repercussions of this kind of stupidity on the world stage have the potential to be exponentially more serious than this incident, as bad as it was.
That’s because when you leave our borders you’re talking about other countries with nuclear weapons, nations weighing how much they can afford to count on their associations with America anymore, and foreign intelligence organizations that can’t help but wonder if sharing critical information with the United States is in their best interests.
Yes, big stakes. And we’re counting on this ship of fools to pilot us unscathed through such dangerous and consequential waters?
Do you want to make that bet?
If I ran a country without nuclear weapons, I would have already started looking into developing them. Why wouldn’t I? Trump’s actions have clearly forced the hands of our allies to consider life without the United States in their corner, and that includes its nuclear arsenal.
This issue is articulated well in an opinion piece in the New York Times titled, “America’s Allies Are Shaken, and Now They’re Taking Action.” The author, W.J. Hennigan, who writes about national security issues for the Times, starts with this chilling observation:
“President Trump’s deference to Russia, his unprecedented rebuke of Volodymyr Zelensky, and his no-holds-barred approach in prodding European partners to spend more on their military budgets are having an unintended impact among America’s longtime allies: a possible nuclear free-for-all.”
“The goal of every American president since Harry Truman has been to limit the spread of nuclear arms rather than encourage their development,” Hennigan wrote, but Trump’s actions “roused allied leaders into thinking: Can we still rely on the United States to come to our defense in a struggle?”
The answer here is no, they can’t.
European leaders have discussed a collective military spending plan totaling about $160 billion for missile defense, weapons systems, and other military hardware. Hennigan noted statements by various foreign officials that he calls “a remarkable turn of events that portends a new nuclear landscape.”
*Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has warned of the “profound change of American geopolitics,” and that his country must now consider reaching “for opportunities related to nuclear weapons.”
*Friedrich Merz, who’s expected to become Germany’s next chancellor, said that his country should discuss a nuclear sharing agreement with France and Britain, which already have nuclear weapons.
*President Emmanuel Macron of France said his country was willing to consider extending the protection offered by its arsenal to European allies who are interested.
*South Korea’s top diplomat Cho Tae-yul left open the possibility of developing nuclear weapons, saying it was “not off the table.”
Hennigan lists Japan, Taiwan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey as other nations that could possibly seek to have their own nuclear arsenals.
Right now, only nine countries possess nuclear weapons. A mainstay of U.S. efforts to limit the spread of nuclear arms in the world has been its promise to protect 30 other nations using its own nuclear weapons. No country should count on the Trump administration to keep that promise.
You can read the Times piece here.
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Times columnist Thomas Friedman, in a wide-ranging opinion piece about Trump titled, “A Great Unraveling is Underway,” touched on both foreign and domestic issues.
Friedman wrote, “Top officials of our oldest allies say privately they fear that we are becoming not just unstable, but actually their enemy. The only person who gets treated with kid gloves is (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, and America’s traditional friends are in shock.”
Friedman defines Trump’s foreign policy as “smash and grab.”
“Trump aspires to be a geopolitical shoplifter. He wants to stuff his pockets with Greenland, Panama, Canada, and Gaza – just grab them off the shelves, without paying – and then run back into his American safe house. Our postwar allies have never seen this America before.”
You can read Friedman’s piece here.
Sadly, there isn’t one stand-up man or woman in this administration with the personal character, integrity, and guts to take responsibility for his or her actions. That absence of accountability starts at the top, and permeates it at all levels. No organization can function with any degree of competence when that’s the case. It’s doomed to fail.
Unsettling and dangerous developments are what’s bound to happen when the United States has an unstable president who’s installed an unreliable, incompetent, and corrupt security apparatus of political sycophants instead of intelligent, serious, professionals.
This is on us. Any weapons buildup is on us. And any horrific event – even if it’s an accident – will mostly likely be traced back to the decision of American voters to return the most corrupt, incompetent, and unfit president to power.
And we’re never going back. Our allies can never trust us again. Sure, we may elect a normal president the next time, but this is a country that’s shown it’s willing to elect someone like Trump – twice. No foreign leader in his right mind wouldn’t prepare as if this could happen all over agai
We’ve set ourselves on a path that we may never get off, and our country is worse for it.
Shame on us. And even more shame on us if we don’t do anything about it now.
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