Trump hasn’t even been inaugurated, and the world is already responding to him as the President of the United States. Trudeau of Canada just made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago to negotiate a sealed border deal. That’s more than can be said for Biden not only now, but for the four long years of his presidential decrepitude. But that’s because Trump’s commanding presence is precisely what great leadership looks like, and Biden’s mumbling shuffles and old-man yells aren’t. A world leader quietly causes the world to realign around him without him doing anything — because of what he could do, and what he would do if he so chose to do it. As the Chinese pre-communist Sun Tzu famously said, the greatest wars are won without fighting them. That’s how the US won the Cold War. And Trump won world peace on American terms without a war in his first term. And now he’s already doing it again: winning with leadership and dealership, and not with loved one’s blood and the national treasure.

If the forever war faction in the American Uniparty is smart, it will switch its stock portfolios from globalist munition makers to domestic American manufacturers who make things in America for Americans to use in times of American peace and plenty instead of shipping expensive weapons overseas to be blown up in the middle of nowhere.

And as Trump again leads from strength for peace, the world will look, the world will see, and the world will follow. And those who don’t will be left behind. And they know it. And so like Trudeau, even they are hurriedly trying to book tickets and get their boarding passes in hand.

ROBERT JACQUES

JAMES STUCHELL

Williamsport

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