I’m assuming the Crisis will end around the end of the decade. There will be a high in which we implement the lessons learned in the recent Crisis. What then are the lessons on the table?FullMoon wrote: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:47 amWe're not as overwhelming as we used to be and our collective adversaries are much stronger than ever before. We need a massive increase in leadership quality across the board if we hope to even have a chance. But hope is cheap and we're already looking at something like Navigator described in his book. and I was thinking Trump might be the Grey Champion. But that would mean we have a successful resolution of the crisis and start rebuilding a better future. Not looking like it at this rate.
No more racism with or without war. No more war with or without racism. Sanity in avoiding economic collapse is necessary. Democratic and economic culture works better than militaristic and authoritarian.
These all make me dubious about Trump as the Grey Champion. Biden, Obama and other past Democrats won’t be in position to say they solved the crisis. The hypothetical 2028 democrat who fixes the above and reverses Trump might do it. I see Trump more as a Black anti champion, Putin and Israel friend, war starter, and bringing the crisis to a head. Compare him to Jefferson Davis or Hitler, major advocates on the stay-the-same conservative side.
I could sympathize with the depleted, exhausted vulnerable comment, except Russia, China and Israel are at least as bad. (Give Trump time. Many nations are rebuilding their economics and trade to exclude the current US.) I could see Iran closing the straits which allow much of the world’s oil to pass. I could anticipate September 11 style terrorist responses to the recent bombing. I could see Iran’s population becoming more supportive of their autocrats as a result of Trump’s actions. It is apt to get worse before it gets better, especially before the 2026 mid term elections.
But cyclical history suggests everyone getting tired of crisis and ready to move on to a high. The question is what would it take to resolve the problems, preventing them from happening again, and moving on to building infrastructure. Think a little less about the crisis and more about how to resolve it.