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“new data has emerged from Canada showing the near-catastrophic consequences to American alcohol manufacturers from President Donald Trump’s tariff wars. Yet despite clear signs that his tariff policies are backfiring, the president keeps doubling down.”
https://reason.com/2026/01/31/trumps-tariff-war-is-crushing-american-alcohol-makers/
China is preparing to invade or blockade Taiwan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXg204rMqI
Even the National Review admits that Trump’s family is getting rich from foreign countries in exchange for presidential actions that benefit those countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXm6xOwLAw
Some Trump supporters don’t like the lack of due process, lack of professionalism, and lack of targeting of Trump’s deportation operations.
Others are cool with it, or maybe not aware of some of the rule of law and rights violations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA7HpyIVhaQ
Taiwan is buying HIMARS to have mobile long range artillery to strike an invading Chinese beachhead, ships, and Chinese naval facilities across the strait in China.
The US is stretched between Iran and Taiwan, partly because of navy resources used to quarantine Venezuela.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWJHp_yHo8
History of India and Pakistan fighting each other.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gkJ6LCnCA8
China is supplying Iran to help defend the regime that just killed thirty thousand of its own people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t87q6xeSwQ0
“Washington already has tremendous access to Greenland under past agreements with Denmark; U.S. troops already operate in Greenland and Washington can send more. Trump’s demand that Denmark grant the territory to the U.S. is a body blow to U.S. relations with its European allies. It also hurts NATO, a military alliance that includes the U.S. and Denmark — and which would defend Greenland should an adversarial power threaten it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/21/mag-toosi-greenland-00740006
Is Trump pushing the world toward a realist Westphalian order with less emphasis on permanent alliances and international organizations, or is he really moving us to a royalist system where global actions are less based on countries and more based on personal, familial, and buddy enrichment and aggrandizement.
Greenland is less about the defense of the US and minerals, which the US could do in Greenland without threats of war because Greenland, through Denmark, is a US ally, and instead about Trump making himself look great by adding territory to the US and making his friends with business interests rich. Ronald Lauder, a billionaire with business interests in Greenland, suggested Trump take Greenland back in 2018. Similarly, refineries that benefit from the Venezuela attack include Trump megadonors. Trump raised tariffs on India after Modi said Trump didn’t play an important role in creating peace between India and Pakistan. So this action was more about Trump’s status and aggrandizement than realist and economic strategy for the benefit of the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37E9ztzxkE
“The classified assessment, compiled by Vietnam’s Ministry of Defence in August 2024 and titled ‘The 2nd US Invasion plan,’ was made public on Tuesday by Project88.
It reveals that Hanoi’s defence establishment was privately preparing for a possible ‘war of aggression’ even as the two countries upgraded their relationship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in 2023.
The partnership, announced during former US President Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi in September that year, marked the highest level of diplomatic ties since relations were normalised in 1995.
But the leaked document suggests Vietnamese military planners were treating the United States as a hostile ‘belligerent’ power and remained deeply suspicious of Washington’s intentions.
Far from considering the US to be a strategic partner on par with China, Hanoi considers it a rogue state that is preoccupied with regime change and which might invade Vietnam if the country refuses to join its anti-China coalition.
According to Project88, the assessment warns that the US could seek to undermine Communist Party rule through support for a so-called ‘colour revolution’ – similar to pro-democracy uprisings in post-Soviet states – and could exploit Vietnam’s long coastline and maritime geography in future conflict.
Project88 quoted the document as stating: ‘While there is currently little risk of a war against Vietnam, due to the US’s belligerent nature, we need to be vigilant to prevent the US and its allies from ‘creating a pretext’ to launch a war of aggression against our country.
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‘Hanoi sees Washington as an existential threat and has no intention of joining its anti-China alliance,’ Swanton wrote.
‘In this respect the plan upends over a decade of US policy, which has sought to court Vietnam into such an alliance, while turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in service of this goal.'”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vietnam-is-secretly-preparing-for-a-second-invasion-by-us/ar-AA1VzxWe?ocid=msedgntp&pc=NMTS&cvid=69821ebb1c2345ed855b809b25059d82&ei=6