War, war, war everywhere

We’re watching something unprecedented unfold, and I can’t shake the feeling that we’re all missing the forest for the trees. Trump’s back in office barely a year, and the world is already tilting on its axis in ways that feel less like modern geopolitics and more like some medieval power grab. Kings fighting over territory, emperors expanding their domains, except now we have nuclear weapons and global supply chains that could collapse if anyone miscalculates.

Let me start with what’s happening right now, because it’s enough to make your head spin. There are sirens blaring everywhere, literally and metaphorically. Venezuela has fallen into chaos, and Trump has done something so audacious it still doesn’t feel real: he’s declared himself the acting President of Venezuela. Not as some symbolic gesture, but seemingly as an actual claim to power over a sovereign nation. This is a country that’s been firmly in China’s sphere of influence for years, and now the United States is just… taking it? The implications are staggering. This isn’t about democracy or human rights. This is about power, pure and simple.

And that’s where things get dangerous. Because Venezuela isn’t some isolated domino. It’s connected to everything else. China’s not going to just shrug and walk away from its interests there. Russia won’t either. We’re talking about countries that have invested billions, that have strategic interests they’ve cultivated for decades. And Trump just kicked over the whole board.

Then there’s Iran. I’m no fan of the Khomeini government. Let’s be clear about that. The regime has its own long list of sins. But what’s happening there now feels orchestrated, amplified, pushed beyond what organic civil unrest would look like. The US fingerprints are all over it, the way they’ve been all over regime change operations for the past seventy years. Iran has been relatively stable, at least externally, for a long time. They’ve weathered sanctions, isolation, internal dissent. But now? Now it feels like someone’s cranking up the pressure deliberately, trying to force a rupture.

And it doesn’t stop there. The US just announced a 25% tariff on any country that trades oil with Iran. Think about what that means. That’s not just aimed at Iran. That’s aimed at China, Russia, India, half of Asia. These are countries that depend on Iranian oil, that have built their energy security around diversified sources. And now Trump is essentially saying: trade with Iran and pay the price. It’s economic warfare, and it’s guaranteed to create enemies.

But wait, there’s more. Greenland. Trump wants Greenland. He’s not even being subtle about it. And this isn’t just about some real estate deal or resource extraction, though Greenland’s mineral wealth and strategic Arctic position matter enormously. This is about acquisition, about expansion, about showing that America can just take what it wants. Never mind that Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, never mind the European Union, never mind decades of international norms about sovereignty. If Trump gets his way here, he’ll have managed to antagonize the entire EU, Russia (which has its own Arctic interests), and China (which has been investing heavily in Greenland) all in one move.

Do you see the pattern? In less than a year, Trump has picked fights with nearly every major power on Earth. China’s angry about Venezuela, the Iran tariffs, and Greenland. Russia’s watching its interests get trampled in Venezuela and Iran. The EU is staring at a potential violation of Danish sovereignty. India and other Asian nations are facing economic warfare over their energy needs. This isn’t strategy. Or if it is, it’s the strategy of someone who wants conflict, who needs conflict.

And that brings me to the part that makes me sick: the Epstein files.

I know how conspiracy-minded this sounds. I know people will roll their eyes. But what better way to bury a scandal than to create chaos so vast, so all-consuming, that nobody has time to look at anything else? What better way to make sure those files never see the light of day than to engineer a situation where everyone’s too busy worrying about World War III to care about who visited what island and did what to whom?

Trump’s name is in those files. We know it. Everyone knows it. And those files contain details that could destroy powerful people, create criminal cases, end careers, maybe even topple governments. So what do you do if you’re someone who desperately needs those files to stay buried? You create a distraction. A big one. The biggest one possible.

And maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this is just Trump being Trump: impulsive, aggressive, transactional, viewing every interaction as a zero-sum game where he has to dominate or be dominated. Maybe there’s no grand conspiracy, just a dangerous man with dangerous impulses and access to the most powerful military and economic apparatus in human history.

But the timing feels too convenient. The scale of it feels too deliberate. We’re watching the world order that’s existed since 1945 get dismantled in real time, and it’s happening under a president who has very specific, very personal reasons to want everyone looking anywhere but at his past. Things were at ease for so long. Not perfect, never perfect, but stable enough that most people could live their lives without worrying about imminent global conflict. That stability is gone now. We’re living through something new, something dangerous, something that feels less like the 21st century and more like the worst moments of the 20th. And it’s only been a year.

I don’t know where this ends. Maybe cooler heads will prevail. Maybe the retaliations won’t come, or won’t escalate. Maybe somehow we’ll muddle through this without everything falling apart. But I do know this: we should be paying attention. Not just to the geopolitics and the tariffs and the territory grabs, but to what’s being hidden while we watch the spectacle. Because sometimes the real crime isn’t the chaos you can see. It’s the secrets someone desperately needs you not to look at while the world burns.