Watching President Trump speaking from Saudia Arabia, I almost felt sorry for a moment for our enemies. They must ponder how to stay relevant as the world seemingly metamorphosizes before them, powerless to stop the transformation. In the speech, the President said something so powerful yet so unconventional that I had to stop to consider why he was the first leader of our country ever to say it.
“Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other,”
Commerce is a recurring theme for Trump. His detractors miss the significance of exactly why commerce is so central to Trump’s vision of new world order peace and why he does not believe in “forever” enemies. I admit that Trump’s beliefs are unconventional for many, including myself. Trump sees Russia, North Korea, China, and a great many nations and people as future participants in a world of commerce. At the same time, Trump sees some nations, traditionally friends, as potential enemies and impediments to such a change in posture. It’s a lot to take in.
Stakeholding vs. Dogma – Trump’s Vision:-
Distilled down, Trump’s vision can be seen as the power of stakeholding vs. dogma. I admit millions of us are heavily invested in dogma, including myself. Dogma is generally thought of as:
- A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith set forth authoritatively by a religion.
- A principle or statement of ideas, or a group of such principles or statements, especially when considered authoritative or uncritically accepted.
- That which is held as an opinion, a tenet, a doctrine.
Trump sees dogma as static thinking that sees us imprisoned in a cage of a single acceptable outcome based not on logic but on past decision matrixes that have worked at one time or another but are not readily transferable to the current challenges. The world economy is on a path to bankruptcy, with almost no country putting debt management first. We reflexively return to the old solutions rather than look for an entirely new Rosetta Stone.
American Thinker writer Thomas Kolbe wrote:
“In the first quarter of this year, global debt surged to a record high of $324 trillion. This milestone becomes significant when compared to global GDP, which currently hovers around $110 trillion. Governments worldwide now owe 100% of GDP — an alarming reality, as no modern state has ever managed to free itself from the ensuing fiscal bind once this threshold is reached.”
The Rosetta Stone is about collective wealth vs. inevitable death through debt. When I am plagued with ambiguities that cannot be reconciled, I frequently fall back on my love of the 18th-century thinker Immanuel Kant, who is most remembered for his work explaining “pure reason,” “practical reason,” and his ideas concerning applying judgment. I tend to understand Kant best with these three statements:
- What we experience and our perceptions are not necessarily reality.
- The limits of our abilities can be reflected in our choices, which almost always demonstrate our knowledge’s limits.
- The morality of our actions can only be defined by what can be logically inferred, yet is imperfect.
The bottom line that extends these three precepts into the here and now is Trump’s new dictum—trade makes right. In other words, nations that depend on each other to be wealthy and prosperous rarely fight each other. The old Reagan dictum was “Peace through strength.” Trump would turn that around to “Peace through interdependent trade.”
We have a Sythian choice before us. Keep doing the things that are comfortable and familiar, or do something radically different, even if it may seem risky or untried.
Conclusion:-
Trump demonstrates that he is not a theoretician by flatly denying Iran access to nuclear weapons. This is proof positive that he is not naively foolish. We’ve not seen an entirely new approach that promises to change the trajectory of the world economy since we did it right after WWII with the Marshal Plan. Trump hasn’t named his plan, but the means and objectives are now clearly in sight. We should all wish him success because he is the captain of our ship of State.
Allan J. Feifer—Patriot
Author, Businessman, Thinker, and Strategist. Read more about Allan, his background, and his ideas to create a better tomorrow at www.1plus1equals2.com. Read additional great writers here.
