THE CATALYST*

* And hopefully not the cataclysmist. 

We all know that Donald Trump is a buffoon who has become inexplicably wealthy and influential.

He is egotistical, narcissistic, greedy and generally awful as a human being but ...

                                                     ... and he does have a big butt ... there are some things that he is doing that, by accident, are maybe an acceleration of what is likely to happen, over time, anyway. Things like: the slimming down of the bloated USA government and institutions; the fall of the USA 'empire'; the rise of China, India and Pakistan as global powers; the consolidation of billionaire 'oligarchs' in positions of political power etc.

There's one thing that he is triggering, more by default than by deliberation and that's the polarisation of the geopolitical landscape.

A while ago I wrote a post about the unification of South America. See:

THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW PART TWO

I could have followed this up with the unification of North America, Europe, Africa and the 'sub continent'. Maybe I will sometime given the incredible number of comments that post attracted.

Trump's annexation plans for Canada and Greenland, for all its bluster, has some possibility for the future - but not as he would plan it. His trade war ambitions against Canada and Mexico have at their root, a desire to weaken those countries and their economies to make them dependant on and subservient to the USA. This will in time, blow up in his face and that of any follow-on right wing imperialistic presidents. Like with The Tarot the prediction is not what will happen but what might happen:

Tarot readings are often used not as a means of predicting a fixed future, but rather as a tool for exploring potential paths and gaining insights into the present, helping individuals make conscious choices and understand their current situation.

Trumps braggadocio is more likely to weaken the USA economically and militarily rather than its neighbours and, bizarrely make (in the longterm future) a possible scenario of unification of the three powers that make up North America - USA, Canada and Mexico.

Similarly, his geopolitical dabbling in European affairs, his attacks on NATO and the UN and his siding with Russia against the wants and needs of Ukraine, Germany, France, UK, the Scandinavian countries etc. might accelerate (and there are already signs of this like France stating that it could position its nuclear arsenal in Germany, closer to Russia) a more formal coming together of Western Europe (with some of the Eastern European countries like Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic etc as well as turkey).

It's not a far stretch to see China collecting its Asian neighbours together as well into an Asian consolidation and, India, Pakistan and the 'sub-continent' countries doing the same if they could ever get over their religious and cultural differences. I did suggest this as long-term though. Much longer-term could be the unification of Africa.

We live in interesting times.