Can Donald Trump Change the World?
Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, Friday, October 6, 2017. (Official White House photo by Shealah Craighead)
First Venezuela, and now Iran. What exactly is President Trump trying to do?
Some on the Left and a few on the Right will tell you he’s using the presidency to make money. Maybe, but let’s look at what he’s doing and what the world will be like should he succeed. Trump wants Greenland for strategic purposes, but hasn’t been able to move the needle.
So, he looked south and sent the military in to arrest Nicolas Maduro, the dictator of Venezuela. Already, Operation Midnight Hammer had, in Trump’s words, “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear capabilities. But maybe not, so now we’re in an all-out war with Iran.
What’s next?
Trump wants to take on the Mexican drug cartels and obliterate them. He wants the Cuban regime to fall. If he accomplishes all these things in his second term, the world will be a different, and potentially better place.
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If course, he could start World War III.
That all depends upon whether some nuclear-capable Middle Eastern state opt to detonate a nuke and create worldwide upheaval. Or perhaps the world’s two biggest nuclear powers besides America decide to provide military support to Iran, or Venezuela, or Cuba. That could get messy.
Donald Trump knows, as we all do, that America can’t bomb Beijing or Moscow as we can Tehran. Doing so would bring on Mutual Assured Destruction. So, those countries are off the table so far as a shooting war is concerned.
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But not the smaller countries that cause a lot of the world’s problems. Trump seems to believe that the U.S. can push them around and have our way with them. The oil and drug producing country of Venezuela seemed easy enough. Blowing suspected drug cartel ships out of the water in the Caribbean seemed easy, too.
Iran’s not proving to be that easy, even though the President has boasted that we won the war in the first hour. Obviously not, but just as obvious is the fact that the U.S. and Israel have decimated much of the military capabilities of Iran, and have killed most of the leading clerics.
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Some people – me included – believe that the old Ayatollah’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei, was either gravely wounded in that initial attack on February 22nd, or may actually be dead.
Now what?
Suppose Iran, with its leadership mostly removed, loses the war and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps lays down its weapons, and some leader emerges to turn Iran into something resembling a democracy.
Better yet, suppose the idiotic “two-State Solution” that the Left loves so much is gone for good, and the Iranians stop trying to murder the Israelis. Imagine a Middle East living in peace. What a victory that would be, however unlikely.
Then Cuba. Then Mexico.
We all know Cuba’s in trouble, and especially so without the backing it got from Maduro. Cuba is, in fact, the socialist utopia that Mayor Zohran Mamdani seems to want for New York City. By all accounts, it’s a miserable place, but the Left revels in misery, so long as it’s someone else that’s miserable.
Cuba is likely to fail, and perhaps to fall into chaos. Again, failing some kind of help from Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping, the island country off the coast of Florida is going down. If Trump has a plan to stabilize Cuba and install a government that will be friendly to the United States, then he can add another notch to his gun.
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The Mexican drug cartels are a different thing, because we’re unlikely to want to bring down the Mexican government. Ideally, we’ll work with President Claudia Sheinbaum to wipe out the cartels, probably by taking them out the way Israel took out the Iranian clerics.
What do we have after all these victories?
Let’s see. If all this works out, we’ll have a stable government in Venezuela and control of that country’s oil. We’ll have peace in the Middle East and an end to the constant fight to exterminate the Israeli people. Peace in that region means stable oil flow, and lots of development to rebuild Gaza and Iran.
Of course, Cuba, being so close to our shores, and us having a naval base there already, should be easy by comparison. The skyline of Havana will grow and Cuba will become rich off of tourism. And, with no drug cartels operating in Mexico, all that’s left to do there is to get the country to teach more English in its schools. At some point, the Mexican people will not want to emigrate to the U.S. because Mexico will be on its way to becoming a rich, first-world country.
Call all this happen? The odds are heavily against it.
But what a wonderful world if it did, and Donald Trump, who likes to get things done, is trying to get these things done. If the rest of the world sees the potential and gets behind it all, maybe (with a little luck) most of this could be realized.
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The fly in the ointment is all the cultures that clash with each other, and never want to work together. There would always have to be a Trump-like figure, lurking in the background, with a promise to bomb the hell out of whoever tries to jack with this new world order.
That would just leave a few odds and ends to cleanup. Namely, Russia, China, and North Korea.
Trump has to leave something for the next president to do. Besides, Russia and China are major nuclear powers. As hard as it will be to bring stability to Iran, that pales in comparison to dealing with our two most powerful adversaries. Fixing Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and Mexico is a fabulous start. But consider: President John F. Kennedy started by sending “military advisors” to Vietnam. And we lost 58,000 soldiers there, and President Lyndon B. Johnson lost his political career.
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The smaller, non-nuclear countries always look easier to deal with than how they end up being. Iraq is a great example for the United States and the Afghanistan occupation is for the old Soviet Union. However, if Trump can just get those four countries stabilized and at least somewhat democratic, drug-cartel-free, and America-friendly, he might win that Nobel Peace Prize he so badly wants.
I’m not so sure. He’s taking on a lot of complicated projects, and American deaths will mount.
The culture clashes will be hard to overcome. Making the Arabs love the Jews will be at least as hard as making the Methodists love the Baptists.
But if he can do it – and Trump is a very different type of president from anyone who’s come before – and then he wants to build some hotels in Gaza and Tehran and Havana and make a few bucks, I’m all for it. All this stuff he’s doing is quite commendable, and except for those Americans who are killed in the process, it could make life far better for the rest of us. By the end of his second term, we’ll either be wishing Trump had never tried to change the world, or we’ll be carving his likeness onto Mount Rushmore.
Lynn Woolley is a Texas-based author, broadcaster, and songwriter. Follow his podcast at https://www.PlanetLogic.us. Check out his author’s page at https://www.Amazon.com/author/lynnwoolley.
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