In the mid-sixties, the TV series Get Smart had an international spy organization known as KAOS, pronounced chaos. It represented the forces of evil designed to disrupt world peace and cause chaos. Today, we have a president who uses chaos for his own evil intent. Chaos is used as misdirection, much as a magician uses distraction to steer the audience’s attention away from what they are really trying to accomplish. Look here, not there. They manipulate focus to hide secret actions.
Trump tells the world that he is going to invade Greenland, no Iceland, no Greenland, but maybe not. He gets the two countries confused. As any grade-school student knows, Greenland is mostly covered in ice and Iceland is covered in lush green vegitation. It was Norwegian Viking, Erik the Red who named Greenland in 983 A.D., in a sneaky attempt to lure settlers to this new land. The trick worked and settlers in the first century were fooled into moving to the mostly ice-covered land. Donald Trump is still confused.
Like a kid who likes to blow things up just to see them blow up, we now have a president in control of the most powerful military power in the world with the same mindset. He is a lame duck president who cannot legally run again so his only restraint at this point is that he doesn’t want to lose the House in the midterms. If he loses the House, he faces legislative gridlock and aggressive legal scrutiny. He could possibly face impeachment but not removal. He has been impeached before and will not be worried beyond the claim of becoming the first president to be impeached three times.
It is chaos for chaos’ sake. Attack Venezuela. Threaten to annex Canada. Threaten to invade Columbia, Mexico, or Cuba. “Acquire” Greenland through any means possible. Abandon NATO. Use your secret police force to attack democratic strongholds in your own country. Sic the Justice Department on political leaders who you don’t like. Attack and threaten US schools and universities. Ignore the economy. Accept unearned trophies. Tear down the East Wing of the White House. Rename the Gulf of Mexico and arts centers on a whim. Impose arbitrary tariffs and make wild tariff threats to intimidate. The result, chaos.
Chaos in government, marked by instability, unpredictability, and dysfunctional decision-making, can have severe repercussions for the economy. When a government operates in a state of confusion and disorder, market confidence falters, leading to the potential loss of trillions in market value. This instability triggers significant volatility, making it difficult for investors and businesses to make decisions with any degree of certainty.
The creation of "radical uncertainty" in such an environment causes businesses to hesitate, freezing investment and stalling economic growth. Supply chains, which rely on predictability and stable policy, are also disrupted. As chaos persists, the overall economic climate becomes less conducive to constructive activity. Growth and stability suffer.
Trump couldn’t care less. If attention is on Greenland, nobody is talking about his involvement with pedophiles and his association with American financier, human trafficker, child sex offender, and serial rapist Jeffrey Epstein.
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