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On Monday, Jan. 16, former President Donald Trump solidified his frontrunner status by decisively defeating his GOP rivals, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, at the Iowa caucus. As the possibility of another Trump-Biden rematch looms, some voters are not clear about which candidate is better suited to guide the country during these uncertain times.
Straight Arrow News contributor Adrienne Lawrence examines the various wars, conflicts, and skirmishes happening globally. Lawrence contends that given the potential threat of another world war, preventing Trump from securing a second term in the highest public office should be the top priority for Americans.
South Africa is seeking genocide charges against Israel, whose relentless attacks on Palestine have taken more than 23,000 lives and incensed a number of nations in the Middle East, such that the Houthis of Yemen and the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah are aggressively in the mix, as the U.S. engages in violent airstrikes along the Red Sea.
In the east, Taiwan has elected the leader of a party that rejects China’s territorial claim of the nation, infuriating China, a global power that’s cuddling even closer to Russia, which has been amping up its attacks on Ukraine since New Year’s Eve. And also, Russia happens to have the world’s largest stash of nuclear warheads.
Argentina’s newly elected president just flipped, with greater precision than Simone Biles, abandoning his platform and compounding the problems brought by the 190% inflation epidemic in the South American country.
Oh, yeah, there’s still that thing between Venezuela and Guyana. They’re dancing, shall we say, after Venezuela threatened to annex a mineral-rich region of the latter as the U.S. offers to establish a military base there, and so on.
And welcoming in 2024, the world is in the midst of a very problematic moment in time. And our nation, the United States, is a world power, with the most military installations and bases worldwide, and the second-most nuclear weapons only to Russia. That being said, why would our nation want to put a human hemorrhoid at the helm? And please forgive my childish language, but my word choice is entirely on par with the exact wording that Donald Trump uses.
And guess what? I am not a former president, nor am I running for office. Now I’m also not standing for any of the other GOP candidates and I am not excited about another round of Joe Biden. But I am hyped on avoiding a third world war. Believe it or not, preventing a global loss of life is kind of my jam. And given that such loss life [sic] hangs in the balance due to the ongoing chaos, Donald Trump does not deserve a second chance to abuse his power as president of the “free world,” especially when global stability is in danger.
