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The Trinity of New World Order

The New World Order in which the three world superpowers: The USA, China, and Russia will be regarded as the “Super Trinity” which will reduce the chance for a WW III following the recent developments in the world stage. These are the three contenders for such honors.

1. The re-election of Donald Trump. The USA is the undisputed world superpower heavyweight. Donald Trump's slogan is to Make America Great Again with his MAGA movement is taking on its momentum beyond its borders. In his second term, Donald Trump extends his MAGA vision in the world stage with unmatched militarily power and economical rivalry. Donald Trump will consolidate the US military and economical powerhouse status he thinks that has been weakened by his predecessors. Many world developments have helped Donald Trump in his foreign policy that those world problems had plagued his predecessors in wars in the Middle East, the Ukraine-Russia War, and the dispute with China in South China Sea.

The fall of Assad of Syria, who is supported by Putin, the fight between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and the ultimate destruction of Gaza Strip. Once the problems are reduced, Trump has more time to deal with the war in Ukraine as he has promised to end the war in 24 hours if he is to be re-elected for a second term. He is the master of making deals. It's less than a month of his second presidency, he has successfully forced all NATO members to meet or surpass their share by stepping up their defense spending by contributing more than the minimum 2% of the GDP to deter Russia's invasion or else the US will leave the NATO on its own. It works like a charm.

Donald Trump eyes not only taking ownership of Greenland away from Denmark either by money or by force, but also threatens Panama government with taking the the Panama Canal by force if necessary for as he perceives China is having too much control over the Panama Canal.

Taking control of the Greenland will ensure the US will dominate the Atlantic Ocean all the the way to the Arctic Ocean in addition to the Pacific Ocean, the Mediterranean waters, and the Middle East. And let us forget not to mention changing the name Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America as a start. That signals to the world that the USA under Trump will start a Gun Boat foreign policy to smaller countries whether they like it or not. Even EU and NATO countries are irrelevant to Trump if he does not have his way. He has already asserted that the US has a big Atlantic Ocean separating Europe and America, meaning if NATO does not and cannot defend themselves against Russia, then it's nothing that the US can do to help them. The

NATO is not one country like Israel by itself in the middle of Arabs countries that the US needs ot support its allies by any rate. NATO can certainly defend itself from Russia's aggression, but they just didn't want to do it until Donald Trump gave them the ultimatum: Putting in your fair shares for NATO's defense funds now - no more free lunch from the US.

2. The Xi JinPing of China. The second world superpower is in the hand of Xi JinPing. It's essential to have a China history lesson here to make the case for Xi JinPing of Chian. Xi JinPing's father was a camrade of Mao ZeDong, but was imprisoned after his falling out with Mao ZeDong. During his youth, Xi JinPing was in forced labor as Mao ZeDong was purging all opposed ideology during the China Red Army revolution.

It took Xi JinPing 11 attempts to join the Communist Party after Mao ZeDong's death. He knew that was the only way to gain power like Mao ZeDong had done and did injustice to his father. In the end his resilience and determination paid off when his party elected him the leader of China. The rest is history.

His dream is not just to become the leader of China, but to surpass Mao ZeDong's supreme status to take the title Father of Modern China. The first order of business is to reunite Taiwan to its Motherland when Mao ZeDong had failed to do so. In order to do that, Xi JinPing has first using the economic power to finance the modernization of its military, especially naval power in the South China Sea. Purchasing an old Soviet style air craft carrier from Ukraine for the start. Building its first homegrown carrier was the next step, the second carrier, and a third one is on the way. Xi knows that he needs at least three modern aircraft carriers in the South China Sea in order to challenge the US naval forces in the Pacific Ocean. Once Xi has enough naval forces in the South China Sea, it's nothing the US can do to stop China to bring Taiwan under One China policy. No US president, including the MAGA Donald Trump would ever dare to risk a military confrontation with China because of any signed treaty the US has with Taiwan.

It's simply just that. If it has to use force to force Taiwan to reunite with its Motherland, China will do regardless. Sooner rather later it will happen. Howver, Xi JinPing does not have the patience to wait that long. He is studying Donald Trump to see if he should take his risk to take Taiwan by force for his lack of patience or just playing the game of “Wait and See” how the war in Ukraine evolves. If Putin succeeds in its objectives with Ukraine, the Xi might feel embolden to make his move to Taiwan. Either wait and see who the next US president is. If the conditions in the US are in Xi's favor, Xi will not hesitate to take Taiwan by force if he has no choice.

Strongmen and strong leaders like Trump, Putin, and Xi, all prefer to take measures into their own hands after the ages of 70s since they know time is not on their sides. Just like any paternal heads of household, they would like to see their household business is in order before their time is up. That's how Donald Trump, Putin, and Xi feel they must do out of their Uncontrolled Obsession Disorder (OCD) for their own legacy. Nothing is more urgent for Xi JinPing to unite Taiwan during his lifetime and to see China under his legacy 9-dash line extended past Indonesia, past Australia and new Zealand and all the way to South Arctic continent into eternity.

3. The Putin of Russia. The third world superpower is in the hand of Putin whose dream is to revitalize Russia to its old glory. Even without a strong economy like the US and China, the USSR's unmatched stockpiled of nuclear power is enough to deter any rivals including the US and China. They all know full well that there's no winner in a nuclear war between superpowers. Russia has many times warned Ukraine and the NATO that they will use their nuclear power to stop any attempt to bring the fight to inside Russia. Russia will continue the war with Ukraine until they achieve their objective either wholly or partially annexing Ukraine. Nevertheless, largest stockpiled of nuclear arsenal is more than enough to deter any aggression, and it works magic every time. Putin's annexing Crimea in 2014 and his invasion of Ukraine in 2021 made its abundantly clear his goal of revitalizing the USSR a reality. NATO is purely for defensing against Russia's ground invasion for over 75 years even though NATO has the military power of the US, UK, France, and Germany. Russia knows that this NATO alliance is purely for defensive purpose, and not a deterrence for a nuclear war against Russia as long as Russia does not attack any NATO member states.

In Christianity, the concept of Divine Trinity is God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit resonates deeply in the minds of Christians whose capital is in Rome where the Pope has enormous power and influence worldwide wherever Christianity exists.

In the same token, the term Super Trinity apply to three military superpower, namely the USA, China, and Russia whose power will dominate their own domains around the world. Each has its own sphere of influences, and no other would dare to trespass. No other country that has the military might and a robust supporting economy that can claim that title of a superpower. India might someday – in the very far future, could become a military powerhouse only to realize that they are only playing a catching-up game. Japan has all the potential to become one, but it's very unlikely they will pursue that avenue since they are under the protection of the US's nuclear umbrella – unless and until the US let loose on them to defend themselves.

The World Superpower Trinity see themselves as the three biggest lions who want to have the entire share of a downed elephant or a giraffe, and each lion must eat to survive. In this case, the nations on Earth are metaphorically a huge dead elephant of a giraffe. Because of the enormous size of the elephant, the three lions will snare at each other, but at the end, they know it's of no use to fight since there's enough food for every one of them. So its' better to stop snaring and begin to gorge their share instead. If the caucuss is not big enough for all three lions, then the fight between them will take place, and all of them will get hurt due to their sheer power. That is what Donald Trump see the world as a real estate mogul. The same is for China and Russia to grab lands to expand their sphere of influence. Once they all have their share, no one wants to fight and peace come abound.

However, the natural law of impermanence governs everything including war and peace. Dynasties and empires formed, expanded, and fell throughout world history. Peace is a temporary thing, disputing between nations will lead to war as long as this Earth is not going to blow up and become self-destructed by nuclear war. That's how I see it unless and until all the nuclear stockpiled are destroyed. It would take another World War to all three world superpowers to see that. In the mean time, no country is willing to do it unilaterally.

Donald Trump, in his second term, has seen that the world conditions are in its best for a perfect storm to create world peace:

1. The fall of Syria;

2. The Ukraine – Russia War;

3. The destruction in Gaza

Superpower Trinity whose reign their domain with absolute Ukraine, and the his reengaging with Putin to stop the Ukraine-Russia War without Ukraine's participation in the initial meeting between the US and Russia after less than a month in office are unprecedented. The pace at which President Donald Trump is moving to bring an end to the war in Ukraine at an astonishing speed disregards his campaign rhetoric that he will stop the Ukraine War in 24 hours.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's special envoy Witkoff, and national security advisor Watz met the Russian counterparts in Saudi on February 17. After that meeting with the Russian delegation, they joined Vice President JD Vance in Munich, Germany to inform the NATO of the US's plan to bring peace to the war in Ukraine.

Vice President Vance used this opportunity to lecture NATO leaders on how they should keep their house in order - meaning they should have stepped up their defense spending as NATO members and relied less on the US for protection. NATO members were less than thrilled and some members felt the US had insulted them. After learning from the US that Europe will be on the sideline in the peace negotiation spearheaded by the US for ending Ukraine-Russia War, Macron of France called for an emergency meeting the next day on February 27. They hastened to hold a virtual second emergency meeting with a full house the next day. Taking advantage of this chaos in the NATO members and Ukraine being left without the support of the US, the Russian Army steps up their attacks to grab more lands as Trump mentioned that the war should end at the end of April this year.

The top US official said they had warned NATO in 2013 about Russia's intention, but their warnings fell on deaf ears, even after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 under President Barack Obama did nothing to stop Putin. Putin has made it abundantly clear that he wanted to take back what belonged to Russia in the first place when his predecessor had gifted Ukraine the Crimea when Ukraine was part of the USSR. Then Putin started the war on Ukraine in 2021, Joe Biden offered Zelensky a flight out to exile, but Zelensky turned down the offer and requested the US and other NATO countries to arm Ukraine instead. As a result, the war in Ukraine has lasted over 3 years while Russia has successfully occupied the four Ukraine regions near the Russian border. Putin feels he has obtained his objectives in occupying those regions where the people in those regions are 40-60 percent Russians.

It's the music to his ears when Trump is reelected because he knows Trump will help end the war in Ukraine. Not only that, Trump disregarded Zelensky's plea for a seat in the negotiating peace with Russia. Trump said Zelensky was the one who caused the war with Russia. Trump also accused Zelensky a dictator of his refusal to hold the election in June 2024. Zelensky said that Ukraine was in war, people were displaced, martial law was in effect, and therefore holding an election was impossible. Zelensky countered that Trump was living in the Russian disinformation space. This kind of talk only makes Trump more insane. Zelensky has the support of the UK and other NATO members for not holding the election while Ukraine was at war with Russia.

The brutal fact is that NATO is strong only when they have the backing of the US. It will take time for NATO to decide if they have to send troops to help Ukraine stop the Russians. Do they have the will to commit their troops to defend Ukraine? In the meantime, NATO countries that has been not up to part with their defense spending (less that 2%) of their country GDP such as Germany, France, Canada, Italy, and a lot of many smaller economy countries found themselves in a panic mode. Only Poland, US, are contributing at 3.8% and 3.5% respectively, while UK is about 2.5%.

We have to understand Trump. He knows who he can flex the muscles at. For a superpower countries like Russia and China, the US should never be able to intimidate Russia, especially when Putin is still in power. For China, Trump can only use tariffs, but if he uses tariff, China will also flex their muscles with reciprocal tariff. Trump is not a fool to back Ukraine to fight Russia, and risk WW III. He wrote a book on making deals so as long as China, Russia, and the US can make a deal to bring peace to the world, he will do it. The same thinking is with Putin and Xi Jingping. As long as the three superpowers have what they want, there's no reason for them to fight.

The US will have its share of influence in North America, South America, Canada, Greenland, Japan, UK, Australia, South Korean, New Zealand, and western European countries. Russia will have control over eastern Europe countries (Non NATO countries), and China will have South China Sea, Taiwan and ASEAN countries. There is no doubt that China will attempt to turn South China Sea into a money-making machine by imposing tolls on commercial ships. Everyone is happy, and that's how the world will be in a lasting peace.

The remaining problem is how to deal with ISIS in the Middle East, Iran, Yemen., etc. The Trinity of Superpowers will find themselves to be collaborative with each other to contain the rise of ISIS. The reason is because none of the tree superpowers is a friend of ISIS. What about Iran and Israel? What about Iran's dream of becoming a nuclear power in the Middle East? In this case the Trio must work to contain Iran's nuclear ambition. What about Parkistan and India? How about India and China? With the help of Russia and China, Gaza will become the Rivera or the Singapore of the Middle East as the US has hoped for.

Not the three kingdoms against each other, but to deter each other as the Trinity Superpowers that control all other countries in a peaceful way. The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.

With countries traditionally considered Western aligned, Russia maintains positive relations with Hungary, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. Similarly, a 2017 opinion poll by the Moscow-based non-governmental think tank Levada-Center states that Russians identified India as one of their top five "friends", with the others being Belarus, China, Kazakhstan and Syria.

Pakistan and China have long praised the close ties the two countries have with each other. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf referred to China as Pakistan's "time-tested and all-weather friend", while in return Chinese leader Hu Jintao has referred to Pakistan as "a good friend and partner".

The United States is China's biggest trading partner. In 2023-2024, the two countries had a total trade of over $664.5 billion.

Canada is the United States' largest trading partner, followed by Mexico and China.

The United States' top export is petroleum, including crude oil, refined oil, and petroleum gas. Other top exports include cars, aerospace products, and pharmaceuticals.

Europe has been warned, and warned again.

Still, it has been reduced to a near-fainting fit — and, in the case of one German official, actual tears — over the Trump administration’s tough words about its deficient military spending and its moves to begin negotiating on its own with Russia over the Ukraine war.

In response, French President Emanuel Macron called an emergency summit of European leaders, which his advisers insisted wasn’t an emergency summit at all, but merely a rapidly assembled informal meeting.

Whatever the nomenclature, there are signs that Europe is beginning to get the memo — or, more precisely, beginning to read a memo that it’s been sent repeatedly for years and buried somewhere under piles of documents celebrating its own so-called soft power.

Back in 2011, Europe received a stern talking-to from a bumptious US official who insisted that it faced “a dim if not dismal future” and that NATO was headed for “irrelevance.”

This rude American was none other than President Barack Obama’s defense secretary, Robert Gates.

As a holdover from the George W. Bush administration, Gates was a figure with unassailable bipartisan credentials, and yet sounded a little like Vice President JD Vance and Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“The blunt reality,” Gates said in his speech, “is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.”

In the form of the second Trump administration, the patience has dwindled to almost nothing.

Serious countries need serious militaries, and a military alliance like NATO depends on the capabilities of its member countries.

This is so obvious it should go without saying, but it’s been an inconvenient truth for a Europe that has preferred to spend on everything else while relying on the might of the United States for security and power projection.

NATO countries vowed that they’d spend at least 2% of GDP on defense back in 2014, and yet only 23 of 32 NATO members have reached the threshold.

Poland and the Baltic states are among the top spenders, while France and Germany barely make 2%, and Canada and Italy are beneath it.

The trend has been upward but nowhere near adequate. According to The New York Times, “There is consensus among officials and analysts that Europe lacks crucial elements of defense like integrated air and missile defense, long-range precision artillery and missiles, satellites and air-to-air refueling tankers.”

Is that all?

Trump is calling for 5% of GDP for NATO members, which has all the hallmarks of a tactic to get Europe as high as possible even if they don’t reach this benchmark (the US itself spends about 3.4%). NATO is planning to make 3% or 3.5% its goal later this year.

President Trump and his team prefer vinegar to honey in making their case around the world. It may be needlessly abrasive, but there’s no doubt that it gets people’s attention.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte told member countries to stop “complaining” and come up with concrete, positive ideas, while Ursula von der Leyen, the president of European Commission, said “Europe’s security is at a turning point” and Europe needs “an urgency mindset” and “a surge of defense.”

Even if Trump were less insistent about spending and had warmer feelings about the alliance, the fact is the United States may at some point be consumed with responding to a crisis in the Pacific, and Europe will have to be prepared to defend its backyard regardless.

If Europe won’t spend more for the sake its own security or the good of the alliance, it should — when its embarrassing panic subsides — at least do it out of self-respect.

The Vice President’s no-holds-barred speech at the Munich Security Conference exposed the stark and disturbing reality that European leaders are simply too arrogant and too entitled to see that their empire is falling around them. Rumors continue to swirl that the US will even withdraw from NATO.

The only thought crimes taking place on the continent are happening in the gravy-train-funded halls of the European Commission and Parliament. The game is up - but European leaders who still think men can have cervixes and women penises are too busy filing their generous expenses to realize.

Keir Starmer had a clear choice to make in the wake of Trump’s inauguration last month. Side with the world’s biggest superpower, get with the times and hang on the coattails of a bright new dawn for the West. Prosperity, clarity and optimism for the future. He could finally shed himself of the riddling anxiety that so clearly dominates his face and eyes.

But the Prime Minister has chosen to stick with the old guard. From sending Labor activists to campaign for Kamala Harris in Pennsylvania, choosing Trump haters David Lammy as Foreign Secretary and Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, surrendering the Chagos Islands despite huge taxpayer expense and in clear defiance of Washington, and now threatening to send British troops to Ukraine at a time Trump is making a deal to end the bloodshed… Davos Man Starmer has chosen darkness over the light.

America will move on without us. The truth is, our failed career politicians who have led Britain into the gutter over the past 20 years means they probably won’t miss us all that much.

But when the powers that be do finally realize that the US has taken a bright and bold path to prosperity, I predict in some 10 to 15 years, we will have missed the bulk of one of the biggest economic, social and political bull runs the West has ever seen.

America is so back.

Britain, I hope, soon.

During his first cabinet meeting, Trump said, “Let's be honest, the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That's the purpose of it, and they've done a good job of it.”

Sweeping tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico will be delayed until early April, Mr Trump said. This suggests that a White House deadline for the countries to secure their borders and halt the flow of opioids into the US has been extended.

Asked if he expects the EU to retaliate with tariffs of their own, he said: “They can retaliate, but it cannot be a successful retaliation, because we just go cold turkey. We don't buy anymore. And if that happens, we win.