The issue of Greenland is far from settled though. Trump came up at the last minute, after he did another TACO by deciding not to invade militarily or imposing tariffs on countries in the EU, with a "framework" of a deal that he didn't offer too many details about. Which, if his history is any guide, there is nothing there. It's all smoke and mirrors, for now. But the Danes, Greenlanders, and the EU are still looking to see if Trump will hit them with something else soon. They have all decided to stand up to him but he could still do some serious economic damage.

Then there are the serious rumours coming out today about Trump planning a regime change in Cuba before the end of this year.

It's becoming too much. All of us around the world are getting very tired of hearing about what Donald Trump is doing to someone, somewhere, next. We need it all to stop. It's time to fire this man and his crew and try to put things back together in some semblance of a democratic republic.

Unfortunately, no one wants to grow a set of cojones and start the ball rolling. The Republicans are just sitting around collecting a paycheck and the democrats are too chicken to stand up and fight.

The U.S. has a fractured judicial system now, cracked right down political ideological lines. Some judges are standing up for the rule of law, only to be overridden by Trump loyalists higher up in the chain of command. Forget about the Supreme Court.

To add more misery to the burning dumpster fire called the United States, Trump is crashing the economy real bad. The crew of clowns in his cabinet are dancing around the bonfire with bottles of liqueur drinking and spitting on the flames every chance they get.

Lutnic and Bessent were absolutely disgusting in Davos, so much so that the EU central bank president, Christine Lagarde, walked out of the dinner they were all attending. The EU and Canada are making more and more moves to step away from Trump's United States. Canada's PM just made some huge tentative trade deals with China, the EU, and Qatar. He's headed for India within the next week or two to make more. He wants Canada to stop being so dependant on U.S. trade from now on, which I applaud. His speech at Davos last Monday was a rousing rallying cry for all of the middle economy countries who have been bullied by Trump.

Even though I live in the U.S., I am cheering everyone else on. I hope all of these countries around the world that Trump keeps disparaging, give him the middle finger and move their trade away from Trump's United States. Once the money stops coming in, and the feds can no longer sell any more bonds and T bills, maybe the now broke politicians will wake up and do something to get rid of the mad king

Of course, the rest of us will be in some serious financial distress by the time this happens. I've been talking some about the uptick in civil unrest, and I don't mean about all of the ICE raids taking place across the country, but the class war between the haves, and the have-nots. That class war is starting to heat up even more lately with everything Trump is doing, both at home and abroad.

Affordability is on most people's minds these days, including myself. I see the price of food jumping up everywhere and the empty shelves and bins in my local grocer. I know all of you have seen it too. At least those of you who actually visit a supermarket on a regular basis.

One of the biggest things I'm watching for, with all of these economic and financial YouTube podcasts I watch, is the rapidly increasing national debts of most of the countries in the world. It seems the whole developed world is living on credit and a lot of them are having a hard time just paying the interest accruing on the principles when the bills come due. I know the U.S. is like that right now. Add to that, all of the latest economic stress from a demented president, and you have a recipe for a global recession. The global trade network is so integrated between countries, that decoupling from an economic powerhouse like the U.S. is going to cause a lot of financial pain during the transition. Not just for the Americans but for nearly everyone who exports to the U.S. as well.

And that is what I'm most afraid of. Like most senior citizens around the developed world, I live on my pensions that I paid into and earned in my younger working days, and those pensions are dependent on a financially solvent government. If the United States becomes insolvent to the point where they can no longer afford to pay out those pensions and social security benefit money, me and millions of other people are all going to be on the street, homeless and marching on Washington D.C. to take back our government.

It could get very ugly as I'm sure Trump would recall his private militia, called ICE, to provide personal security for him when the people come for him. It won't be like when Nixon and Kissinger were asking themselves whether the protesters would leap the barriers around the white house to come get them. With Trump, he wouldn't hesitate to have his militia start shooting people if they came after him. And this group of derelicts his DHS has hired wouldn't hesitate one bit. That's part of how they got hired for ICE in the first place. By their willingness to carry out violence against other people, immigrants or citizens.

Right now, we're a ways away from something like that. Maybe by a few months anyway. If Trump crashes the economy, as he has nearly done twice now in just a year, the gloves will come off. The American people will come for him and his enablers. And ICE will get rolled over by sheer numbers.

There will be shootings, you can take that to the bank. We have already seen ICE's eagerness to meet out violence and extrajudicial killings lately so, killing a few protesters for their dear leader won't make many of them pause. Some of them would probably relish the permission to shoot fellow Americans just for the thrill.

Despite that, if American citizens were to take up arms against Trump's personal militia, the battles wouldn't last long. Most of these new hires have little to no combat experience and little training or discipline. They're just overpaid street thugs hired to forcibly go after anyone with dark skin, citizens or not. They're not asking and they don't care. They're told who to go after, with little oversight, and they feel emboldened because they always show up in large tactical squads for their raids against unarmed civilians. In some latest leaked news by a government whistle blower, ICE has been told they can forcibly enter private property without a warrant, which explains a few things. I can't imagine why they didn't want everyone to know about that.

These thugs wouldn't stand a chance against any trained, experienced combat veterans. Even if the resistance veterans were all senior citizens like me.

As I've said before, the people in the U.S. are nearly there. They're on the edge of armed resistance against these street thugs terrorising and killing peaceful people, non-citizens and citizens alike. For a lot of them, the only thing holding them back are their local governments calling for peaceful protests. With the terrorism taking place in Minnesota right now, that may not last much longer. The rallying cry will be justice for Renee Good.

If Trump sends in federal troops to more democrat led cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, that may be the spark that sets off the dry tinder, as I mentioned last week. Will we be witness to Americans shooting Americans soon? Or will cooler heads prevail and the military be ordered to stand down against Trump's orders? You tell me.

It's hard to tell right now. I know some people, one a close relative, who would watch with glee as federal troops fired on peaceful protesters. This close relative would call the protesters leftists, communists and liberal democrats who deserved to be shot for daring to protest against Trump. But then, he's never served in the military or ever fired a gun in combat, much less while the enemy is shooting back. He's another arm chair soldier who would probably run away as fast as possible if anyone took a shot at him and came close to hitting him. Imagine someone like this times about thirty five percent of the U.S. population? That's about how many arm chair soldiers there are in the U.S. The majority of them cowards hiding behind their computers and social media accounts.

I find that it's these people who keep pushing the envelope the most with social media because they can hide behind their keyboards. They don't have too worry to much about anyone taking an actual shot at them in anger. They feel very safe hiding behind their house walls and PC monitors while real soldiers like me fight their battles for them. There are a handful of white supremacists in the country, some with military experience, who would stand on the side of the ICE troops but they are few and far between. The majority of the civilians standing with Trump and his federal militias are cowards who wouldn't fight unless cornered. I have first hand experience of what it's like to be in combat with enemy soldiers taking shots at you. I don't recommend that for anyone.

I truly hope we don't see street fights in the U.S. between local resistance fighters and government troops someday soon. A lot of people will die on both sides and that will be the real tragedy. I can see Trump yelling and screaming for his troops to kill anyone who dares to stand in the way of his troops carrying out his orders. Much like he asked Mark Esper during his first term if the national guard troops in Washington could be ordered to just shoot the protesters in the legs.

I said on last weeks podcast that I'm not advocating for armed resistance, yet. In this blog post this week, I am advocating for armed resistance and here's how it should go. Much like the first battles between the colonists and the British Red Coats at Lexington and Concord in April, 1775, there will need to be enough resistance fighters to overwhelm the ICE squads terrorising people in these neighbourhoods. By showing up with enough guns and people to surround these so called agents, they can be given a choice, either surrender or die.

Of course, Trump will invoke the insurrection clause and send in some federal troops. This same tactic can be used with them also, if they were to be sent out in the streets. Disarm them and escort them back to where they're bivouacked. From the looks of a lot of these federalised troops, it wouldn't take much. First of all, most of them don't have the heart for this kind of deployment, so they wouldn't put up much resistance in the face of overwhelming odds. Their NCO's would also be the same way. There might be some hot heads who might fight though and that's the chance any armed resistance would have to be willing to take. Would we see some pitched battles in urban and suburban neighbourhoods? Plan on it and hope not.

Someone has to find a way to make these ICE terrorists stand down soon. I am all about the local governments using judicial means to accomplish this but we can see how this is not helping anyone right now. Something more in your face needs to be happening until the governments get things worked out. How many more people have to be permanently disabled and killed before a way is found to force these terrorists off the streets?

No one want so start a battle where civilians will be caught in the crossfire. Killing women and children will only make things worse, as we've seen with the Renee Good murder. We're now talking about war zone refugees. On the other hand, maybe evacuating people out of areas where ICE is targeting people and moving them somewhere with armed resistance protecting them. Sure it will disrupt the local economies and everything but isn't ICE already doing that?

But hey, I'm just spit balling some ideas. Whatever the plan, someone needs to step up soon before too many more people end up dead from gunshots on the streets and choke holds in detention centres. I wonder what would happen if roles were reversed and it were white immigrants who were being targeted by dark skinned ICE agents? How many arm chair soldiers would we have then?

In other local news, is everyone ready for the major winter storm that's hitting central and eastern North America this weekend? I went out to pick up some extra flashlights and batteries today as part of my preparations in case the lights go out. I would have gone to the grocers but most of the stores were full of panic buyers so we stayed away. The Home Depot was bad enough. I may venture out to get some extra milk and a couple of things in the morning before people wake up. My wife warned me that the store shelves and coolers will likely be largely empty. I guess I'll find out. I did notice that the tariffs are in full swing as the flashlights and batteries are now more expensive than I remember. The flashlights were imported from Thailand. The batteries? I didn't look. It doesn't matter though, I need them so what are we to do? And Trump says the economy is doing great. Prices are lower than before he took office a year ago. It's obvious that he hasn't set foot in a retail store in years, if ever.

Take care everyone. I will be back next week with more about what I and many others are thinking about and I'm daring to say out loud in my blog. Sláinte