Thinking the Unthinkable: When Will Russia Invade Europe?

Western elites remain somnolent about Putin’s aggressive plans against us, even when they are rather plainly stated – when will NATO wake up?

Today, Donald J. Trump commences his second term in the White House, an outcome that sounded outlandish four years ago, when he left the Oval Office in disgrace following the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill riot. However, it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future, as Yogi Berra is reputed to have said. Since 2021, Democrats played a fool’s game of applying lawfare against Trump on multiple fronts, which backfired by instead restoring his political fortunes. Then, after an increasingly senile Joe Biden’s political collapse, Trump retook the White House in the greatest, and perhaps unlikeliest, comeback in American political history.

Trump’s second term agenda will emphasize border security and the deportation of criminal migrants who entered the country in large numbers under his predecessor. In foreign policy, Trump reoccupies the Oval Office with a win already, his brokering of a ceasefire and hostage exchange between Israel and HAMAS. While this isn’t a peace deal, per se, it brings Gaza less war than it’s experienced since the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel that ignited the current conflagration.

Being himself, Trump brings flash to his inauguration with his high-profile efforts to keep TikTok alive, a cause that’s dear to Zoomers as well as the Chinese Communist Party. How Trump can do that, given that the Supreme Court just upheld the law passed by Congress last April banning TikTok if it failed to cut ties with its CCP masters, is legally unclear. Simply put, TikTok is a front for Chinese intelligence that collects vast amount of data on its users, which Trump understood in 2020 when he signed an executive order effectively banning the app from the United States.