Significant Earthquake Events in 2026!
Venezuela, After the 2026 Earthquakes.
On June 24, 2026, 2 earthquakes in a row hit Venezuela, destroying their capitol city of Caracas and surrounding cities. The earthquakes measured R7.2 and R7.5, and were 39 seconds apart. Death toll is currently over 5000 people with an estimated final death count to exceed 100,000 people after full recovery is completed.
Caracas, Venezuela 2025.
Beautiful Caracas, Venezuela in 2025!
In 2025, Caracas was undergoing the after-effects of a contested Presidential election and the consequential US kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the incumbent Venezuelan President whose new election win was disputed by front-runner Venezuelan alternative candidate Juan Guaido. Maduro was accused by Venezuelans of corruption and high inflation as well as the collapse of the Venezuelan economy and efforts at establishing socialist-based diplomatic relations with China's and Cuba's communist governments.
Maduro succeeded Hugo Chavez's longtime reign as Former Venezuela President and whose policies led to Maduro taking action as President in the early 2000's to nationalize corporate businesses involving oil harvesting, production and refining that were owned privately by international corporations.
After US President Trump was elected in 2025, he secretly used US military forces to invade and capture Maduro and his wife and had them brought into the United States to face charges for illegal drug running and human trafficking into the US from Venezuela and also bad international business practices. The Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodriguez assumed the Presidency as Acting President and since that time has repeatedly asked the US to extradite Maduro and his wife back to Venezuela to answer for crimes against the State and also plans to hold new national elections after her term ends.
Earthquake Casualties and Massive Damage: A National Crisis.
Weeks after the dual, back-to-back 7+ magnitude earthquakes, volunteers and survivors had to search and recover living and dead people from the collapsed rubble that had once been multi-story apartment buildings that housed thousands of people. Complaints from media to the government involved lack of emergency personnel and resources such as fuel, large machinery for rescues and excavations, food, water and personal supplies and temporary housing. Emergency international aid relief with daily food donations and local, civic volunteers made up most if not all of the immediate onsite relief efforts.
The US Secretary of State immediately pledged 150 mil. USD for Venezuela aid following the crisis. UN teams are expected to be deployed but no immediate word has been published about when that is to happen.
Cleanup operations have been impeded by lack of government personnel, nationwide economic problems and the temporary effects of the power generator blackouts which affected Venezuela oil production facilities that are publicly and privately owned. Many are a corporate part of the United States oil industry. When seen as a whole, survivors and volunteers locally are only able to work at a snail's pace, working through dangerously unstable rubble and recovering living and dead who are trapped beneath, with food, water and medicine in short supply in major affected cities! Although international help is needed and requested at the UN level, rapid responses are still a matter of government priorities, overall onsite safety and preventative measures against corpse related infections from viruses that are sometimes airborne.
For more about reconstruction efforts after the disasters, please visit the "Reconstructing Gaza" page in the August 2026 News edition of TLO news at this website.
For simple, free video information about concrete strengths in professional engineering terms, please visit the following page: https://youtu.be/mvbrn1oQHq0?si=JK6sCdEuPxsd3thH
Panama Earthquake. October 9, 2026
Panama Earthquake. October 9, 2026
7.6-7.7 Earthquake in Panama takes place on October 9, 2026.
6.6 Earthquake Aftershock Follows.
Epicenters in Los Santos (The Saints) State Region.
Tsunami Warnings Across 7-8 Different Central and Latin American nations Issued.
Data Center Issues, Problems, AI Situations.
TLO Critical Commentary.
For readers interested in the current debates and arguments centering around "data centers" that are being considered for construction-or being actively constructed-in local neighborhoods and incorporated areas, the problems are local. Some large data centers are located right-next-door close to neighborhood business communities, and large residential communities! Those are key aspects to consider about these buildings, as is the subsonic "noise" (noise generated that humans can't hear but animals can, that affect the human body vibrationally and animals in as of yet unmeasurable ways) that their buildings' interior electronics systems generate. And the need for an enormous amount of increased energy throughput for those centers that that community's local power grid must be capable of effectively managing, generally raises electricity utilities rates all throughout that particular location.
So why build massive data centers near residential communities? Isn't it more logical and sensible to locate them in isolated, protected areas, far away from Anytown, USA? The general idea is that the closer the centers are to residential areas then the easier it is to serve those residents without expending too much additional effort at broadcasting and receiving networks involving expensive equipment and satellites to accommodate that location's need for constantly provided data for all of the available reasons:
Internet use.
Smartphone use.
Landline telephone use.
GPS navigational systems use.
Autonomous driving interactions.
AI query and conversation use.
And in the immediate future, much more types of communications-based data processing systems are planned for these centers.
Moving them to severely isolated areas will require large communication towers to be installed and maintained actively. In addition, geosynchronous satellite connections for such data transmissions are expensive, requiring more and larger schematics for equipment to cover larger and larger areas of communication and data processing fields. That effort raises local subscription prices for phones, utilities prices for electricity and water, and ultimately the cost of EV technology and vehicles as well as the rates for Internet data usage and probably even garbage collection!
The Data Center's Primary Missions.
Data centers are where large amounts of electronic data are processed, stored, transmitted and controlled by huge mainframe computers! Attached to the outside world through network cabling and various antenna service communication towers and orbiting satellites, these warehouse -sized constructions are the server networks that enable all of the communications using phones, Internet services, navigation GPS and even process streaming television network data. Without the data centers, most of the technologies today surrounding telephones, Internet and autonomous driving would simply not be possible, at least not at the processing speeds that consumers are presently used to.
Anyone who can remember as far back as the 1980's probably also remember the time it took to login to such network service providers as CompuServe, AOL and Yahoo. Do you recall the way in which your computer used to dial in using a modem that made that weird whistling noise before connecting you to the network service? Today, that process happens instantly, without the noise, simply by pressing a touch screen or keyboard button on your laptop or smartphone! Let's face facts. Without current technology including data centers, PEOPLE COULD DIE. The technology involved links hospitals, banks, government centers, military objectives and foreign embassies, air traffic control, autonomous vehicles and GPS navigation systems. Any breakdowns in any of those systems could mean the difference between a safe commercial aircraft landing and a plane crash, or a living patient in a hospital vs. a dead one!
So what's the answer to the ages-old question "What can one do if one can't live with this or that and you can't live without this or that?: The normal answer is..... COMPROMISE. Knowledge of what the data centers actually do sets inherent ethical and moral boundaries to consider as emerging tech assignments such as "AI" and "military targeting selections" are potentially added to the normal vocabulary of data center usage paradigms. Voting issues and funding involving new data centers and maintenance of older ones and what they are expected to do needs ADULT EDUCATION for ADULTS about what these technologies do, and their capabilities for near and long term use!
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Western Columbia Earthquake. August, 2026.
Columbia's Destructive August 2026 7.4 Earthquake.
This strong earthquake struck in the mountains of Columbia where the smaller- than -urban populations of people living there were naturally affected. News of the earthquake was limited but the pattern of strong earthquakes in Latin America in 2026 seemingly matched the ones taking place across the Pacific Ocean in Indonesia and Japan, predominantly. These patterns indicate a possible fracturing of the Pacific tectonic plates, maybe due to increased pressure on the seabed of trillions of tons of newly melted glacier water moving across the Earth's oceans and currently affecting both the Arctic and Antarctic regions of Planet Earth.
*For young 5th grade experimental Earth scientists!
What happens to the level of water in a small bowl when you fill warm water in the bowl to nearly to the top, add ice cubes, and let them melt? Does the water level in the bowl increase or stay the same? Why? Answer is below!
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Recent Pacific Rim Quakes and Magnitude.
obeover The NationThailand Publication. Facebook 2026 reference.
Earthquake Tracker Asia. Reference website.
August 2026.
Myanmar Indonesia. 7.7-7.9 Earthquake. 47 dead.
October 2026.
Tibet. 7.0 Earthquake in sparsely populated mountain region. No deaths or injuries reported.
Why Anti-Woke Ideology is Racist.
The Trump Administration's Racist Attacks on WOKE.
Op-ed by John E. Staff Editor.
Before and during the second term of the Trump US Administration, much political bruhaha was made about "WOKE" and the so-called policy agendas of the presence of "woke" policies all throughout the US government. Historically, "woke" was a colloquial word describing individuals and groups of people who were constantly on the alert- or awake -to the injustices of unfairness and inequality and unjust treatment of people within the United States. That word originated in the American Black community that referenced the state of mental and physical alertness that prevented violent attacks against Blacks by White supremacists during the end of the US segregation era and has since evolved into a multicultural word that includes not only Black Americans, but any or all people from any variety of backgrounds in the US who are experiencing injustice because of being part of those groups and for speaking out about injustice happening in the US at the hands of authority. Police, government agencies and political candidates and elected officials are, in general, the focus of such allegations as unjustified brutality, unjust legal treatment of victims of crimes by authority against the people and citizens of the country and elsewhere and also bad laws that treat some people more than others as less than deserving of equal treatment under the law for one reason or another. In essence, to be "woke" is to be alert to injustice in its many forms and policies in the United States. And honestly, just what exactly is wrong with that "ideology"?
Significant to the development of the US public's "woke awareness" during the 2024 Trump campaign for the US Presidency, MAGA followers turned the word "woke" into a war cry that demanded national attention and accused woke followers of anti-White racist policies and then attacked woke as a racist idea that causes harm to White people involved in hiring policies in the US. Trump-MAGA believed that reducing White hiring rates of hire and also using selective discrimination against White people by implementing "DEI" -Diversity, Equality and Inclusion- involved "woke" hiring policies that Trump and MAGA interpreted as hiring "under qualified" non-Whites and women to the jobs that the Trump followers believed were supposed to be exclusive for "well-educated White people" and not non-Whites and non-White females benefitting from a new US government policy instituted during the 1960's US Civil Rights era. That time period in the US involved Democratic attempts at true multicultural, societal and job and wealth integration within the US by having corporate and government hiring managers re-evaluate job applicants who were denied employment because of their race, creed or economic background. The results became clear that in a majority of civil cases brought before the SCOTUS in the 1960's during the US Presidencies of John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson that discrimination in hiring throughout the whole US was evident based upon all three factors mentioned above. The US government actions taken since then to protect fairness in hiring in the US evolved into the Affirmative Action movement of two previous US generations of workers and anti -discrimination, equal opportunity employment laws that are still present and operating in the US today! Those laws were based upon the concept of DEI, Diversity Equality and Inclusion, and were another focus of the Trump Administration's illegal financial and punitive funding impoundment attacks against universities in the US and throughout all Federal and State agencies and US military immediately following Trump's entry into his second term as US President.
Trump and his followers tried to disengage the US American peoples' already existing societal considerations about the laws of equality under the US- that are applicable to ALL people present inside of the US boundaries - by making disgusting and racist jokes about WOKE policies! Woke "ideology", by the late 20th century, included civil defense of US civil rights laws protections! Trump and MAGA "re-labelled" woke as an affront against White Christian values and White people in general. Men like Charlie Kirk, an avid Trump supporter who spoke at public venues and college campuses about freedoms of speech and defense of pre-woke "American" educational systems even criticized woke policies as resulting in "unqualified people", and especially Blacks, being hired by companies that managed airlines and hospitals! Kirk forced his listeners to question the fairness of forced "US national diversity"-meaning inclusions of hiring people from various US ethnic and racial minority populations and economic differences-among talented well-educated Whites who he believed were unjustly dismissed from high paying jobs to conform to US government policies demanding said inclusions! Without offering hard evidence about his beliefs he would gather his listeners into debate where he would argue his points against theirs in public-never mind that he was a 31 year old college dropout who created his own speakership company to do just what he was doing while married to a woman with close previous professional ties to Trump via Trump's past ownership of beauty contest promotional companies! Charlie Kirk's assassination at a college event brought even more MAGA criticism of woke policies, as critics tried to cash in on using public 'buzz' -or gossip- about the Kirk assassination as being the result of angry anti-White "woke supporters", even after a White suspect in Kirk's assassination was arrested and charged with killing Kirk. Fear about woke permeated US society as a result and Kirk's assassination just added more fuel to the flames of hatred of woke supporters for the general public to medidate upon and converse about, regardless of whether or not they knew anything about the true origins and current definitions of woke itself as a common multi-cultural descriptor of people from any background who complain about injustices happening in the United States under the guise of authority!
In modern times, people who can be considered "woke" are the types and kinds of people who brought to light all of the following miscarriages of justice in the United States and elsewhere:
The COVID world government responses to mass quarantines, forced leaves of absence from jobs which in many cases worldwide resulted in mass firings and business closures, and mandated mask wearing and physical distance workplace laws.
The January 6. 2020 Trump-inspired Capitol Riots and their resultant invasions and serious vandalisms of the US Capitol building and life-threatening and lethal injuries of Capitol Police, US Congresspeople working on the 2020 US elections certification and participant rioters. The same Jan. 6 rioters who were arrested by FBI, investigated tried and sentenced to prison terms were all pardoned by Trump in 2025. After being released, many of those same rioters committed crimes such as stalking, threats and intimidations of victims of domestic violence and also sexual assault, illegal weapons possession and negligent homicide involving vehicular manslaughter.
Protests against DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency), a "new department" which was placed into effect in 2025 by Trump and led by special government employee Elon Musk, which ostensibly was created to find places in US government spending which were to be considered too expensive or expendable. The actual results were the unlawful invasions of US Federal buildings by DOGE employees, most of whom were in their 20's and had no previous government work experience or even adequate qualifications for their jobs, and who closed Federal buildings where they were assigned and blocked Federal workers -including US Congresspeople -from entering their workplaces which were being illegally occupied by DOGE workers, and interfered with Congressional scheduled work and exposed the private data of US Americans and others, including Social Security and IRS banking information, agency information related to EVERY US Federal agency including the FCC, FAA and FDA to DOGE, and resulting in the mass eliminations and planned eliminations of many US Federally sponsored agencies such as USAID, the US Board of Peace, the US Department of Education and several executive branch oversight agencies created by US Congress to check executive power in decision-making. Tens of thousands of US government workers were fired within months by Trump and his actions were later found to be unlawful by SCOTUS later in 2026.
National protests against, and legally recorded observations of Trump's ICE and CBP border patrol police arrest, detentions and deportations actions against non-criminal nonviolent migrant workers, illegally present individuals and families including children, various asylum seekers awaiting decisions in court and expired visa holders after Trump promised that "only violent illegal aliens and gang members would be targeted by ICE actions"
OFFICIAL COMPLAINTS ABOUT completely indefensible and outrageous demands from Trump's Justice Department US FEDERAL IMMIGRATION JUDGES to interview UNACCOMPANIED ILLEGALLY PRESENT MINOR CHILDREN, WITHOUT ANY ADULT OR ATTORNEY PRESENT TO DEFEND THEM, TO ASK THEM "WHY THEY SHOULD NOT BE DEPORTED" TO UNSAFE FOREIGN COUNTRIES! THE VERY ACTION OF THESE "INTERVIEWS" VIOLATES ENTIRE SECTIONS OF UNITED NATIONS RIGHTS OF CHILDREN LAWS THAT THE US IS SIGNATORY TO!
Protesters against the Texas governor's gerrymandering of State voting districts to specifically benefit Republican voters which resulted in a Texas Assembly Democrat walkout and appeals to the Illinois government and Chicago mayor that illegal vote tampering was happening in Texas because of Trump's influence on the Governor of Texas.
US Congresspeople from the Black Caucus protesting loudly in Congress about illegal district gerrymandering in their home States in the US South against predominantly and situationally US Black voting districts and redrawing voter district lines to redistribute Black majority districts into newly formed districts favoring new majorities of White Southern US Republican voters.
Individuals bringing to light the DOGE firings of FAA representatives including ATC workers and the subsequent discernable increased of aircraft related fatalities and injuries and aircraft accidents after the FAA firings.
The people who provided notification to press of the assassination and wounding of US Democrat lawmakers in Minnesota by a man dressed as a police officer who had MAGA propaganda materials in the police car.
Protesters against Trump's bombing of Iran and the "Signalgate" incident.
Protesters against Trump's first strike against Iran and the resulting Iranian civilian and children's deaths resulting in the Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and culminating in lost global oil revenues, stranded international cargo and oil ships around the Strait, suicidal US Navy ship personnel and the severe cost increases of gasoline internationally.
There are so many additional instances of people displaying woke behavior these days that it begs the question: "Would the United States still be the United States without WOKE, despite the Trump Administration and MAGA's senseless, non-explanatory attacks against that "ideology"? One could also ask oneself if the US would even exist today if it wasn't for that historical ride of US Founding Revolutionary hero Paul Revere and his famous ride and shouts of "The British are coming! The British are coming! after the agreed upon code using the signals of "one if by land, two if by sea" in reference to the lanterns to be lit by US colonists defending Boston Harbor against a possible British invasion. Back then as today, alertness and preparedness against war and social injustice always need to remain as an ever-important facet and quality of the US people, and the elected US government, one that Former US president Abraham Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address declared is made of the people, by the people and for the people.
The Hard Reality of Compromising Necessary Human Ethics and Morals.
TLO Op-ed Commentary.
“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me. I don’t need international law. I’m not looking to hurt people.”-Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States of America. (Quote from New York Times, January 10, 2026).
As sad as the above quote makes me feel, what I believe even more catastrophic than Trump's self-defensive statements about morality are the events which followed soon after; Trump's Iran bombings, extrajudicial killings of drug trafficking suspects and deaths of ICE detainees are well-known and widely published throughout news media within and outside of the United States. But added to that are the policies of revenge and personal aggressions by Trump using his social media host site Truth Social as well as the White House official government website to justify his actions against Americans who disagreed with and protested legally and illegally against his national policies! Never in my long life have I ever experienced the vindictive criticisms, AI generated depictions of Trump as "Jesus", and dressed as a King flying a jet fighter airplane while defecating on US protesters, or using AI photoshopped images of Democrat Congresspeople retouched as ethnic minorities and white supremacists! Trump believes this type of behavior is all "a joke", as do his executive cabinet members such as Vice President JD Vance and remarkably even Secretary of State Marco Rubio! But they are elected and appointed officials of the highest public offices in the United States of America! If these childish bullying displays of spite were just common joking around, then what can US Americans or anybody else seriously expect of ANY official act taken by ANY of them while in office? Why don't other world leaders engage in such behaviors or expressions? Where is the accountability for mature and responsible leadership that is expected of any elected world leader such as a President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA?
Suffice to say, I personally didn't like the abusive "free hate speech" that so amused the President and Executive staff, and have a most difficult time fathoming how the leaders of such a once great nation could have impugned the reputations of their across-the-aisle US Democrat colleagues in Congress so infamously while thinking maybe that no one would mind and everyone would laugh along with them! Contrary to that stupid possibility, it seems that today, as US Midterm elections approach, Trump's popularity ratings have tanked at 39% vs. a 59% disapproval rating among US Americans! Trump recently used US government (the people's taxpayers') monies to generate personal campaign ads worth over 20 mil. USD each which encouraged football game watching viewers to "follow him [Trump] to destroy communists and the "deep state" in the USA!". As if! With that stale rhetoric that Trump later deemed "educational", Trump has managed not only to expose himself as a corrupt lawbreaker who is misusing taxpayer funds for self-promotion, but also as a delusional "Don Quixote" archetype, fighting against enemies that don't exist and tilting at ideologies that only exist in government practice overseas in countries that Trump is trying to sell US weapons to! How absurd is that?
Compromising established morals and ethical values is like trampling on virtues and talented people who work to help and serve others faithfully and honestly to the best of their abilities and gifts. Trump had people working in US government who believe in those same values FIRED WITHOUT CAUSE and that included US military authorities as well as Executive oversight committee leaders -and even the chairperson of the John F Kennedy Center for the Arts! One can perceive a general Trump pattern of attack against institutions in the US that honored the contributions of men such as JFK and Abraham Lincoln, by making the two of these past US Presidents seem dimensionally smaller or comparatively less important than Trump's imperial ambitions as President of the USA. Trump does this by demolishing the White House and rebuilding it according to his specifications, reworking and painting the already-functioning Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool because of the normal growth of natural algae that tends to accumulate in that pool's water, and erecting a 250 ft. tall Triumph Arch across from the Lincoln Memorial that is inscribed with the words "With Liberty and Justice for All" while designed to house military drones and missiles as well as a "public observation deck". My oh my oh my. What kind of societal message is that for young US Americans and tourists from other places? Does only superior might always make leadership decisions right?
In conclusion, it is obvious that Trump not only doesn't need international laws binding him to truth and due process in participating in international government but neither did he need or follow already established US Federal laws regarding ethics and morals expected of elected officials of the US government, including the President and those people working in the cabinet and throughout the whole US Executive branch. And yes, paying needful attention to those same ethics and morals are, again, defined clearly in US Federal laws! It is NOT up to ANY US President including Trump to ignore, alter or change those laws independent of Congress or SCOTUS! Those laws are dependent upon the people of the United States and their needs and social issues. Not those of only a select few participating in Executive office at the expense of the people who support them with their taxes and their votes (or even without them). Shame on Trump for his indecent abuses of government authority and shame on anyone who can stand complacently in the sidelines of today's US political scene while only watching these events happening and not answering them with your voter conscience!
Good luck in 2026 and 2028 and hopefully you, the readership can study the candidates and issues facing your local communities and the US as a nation before voting in the coming US elections! A well-informed voter is a powerful voice towards helping defend against authoritarian injustices and Trump's corrupted morality and ethics and readdress what is still possible, both ethically and morally in a Western Democracy such as the United States of America in the 21st century, after Trump leaves office.
The Social Damage Facing the USA After Anti-DEI and Anti-WOKE Attacks.
TLO Commentary.
The whole US Military was critically affected after the Trump Administration's DEI purge of all branches of the US defense fighting forces. When Trump decided to rename the US Defense Department to the US War Department, he was taking actions that brought the US Armed Forces back to the World War II years, when the US was forced to defend itself during the Euro-Pacific conflict's emergence into a global war encompassing a European Nazi invasion and the Asian Japanese Empire military takeovers of parts of China and the Philippines. Those situations however, no longer exist. So why the name change? According to US War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth, the US military needs to end all "wokeness", DEI practices, and the presence of "fatsos, weirdos, beardos and wimps". Hegseth has stated that position in exactly those words to the highest levels of Pentagon leadership, from US Admirals to US Generals, officers to soldiers, as new US War Department policy! Hegseth has also been firing highly competent Administrative personnel and Generals and Admirals who he doesn't agree with or who Trump believes "are not aligned with current US Administration policies" but that begs a question: "Just what are the policies that the Administration is pushing that would result in the severest reductions in high-level US Military leadership since we can't remember when?"
One notable and newsworthy change in US military policy under Trump-Hegseth involved the country of Iran and the Trump Administration's actions so far taken against their leadership. Or, what is left of their leadership after Trump's "first strike" bombing campaign against Iranian targets killed all of the Iranian senior religious clerics involved in Iranian national decision-making -along with over 160 Iranian elementary school students - using missile strikes without warning. This example -and additionally, Trump's previous kidnapping of Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife during a clandestine US military invasive strike against the Maduro residence in Venezuela, gives US and international observers a real taste of what the new Trump-Hegseth-led US military is to be all about. And that is unquestionable loyalty to Trump-Hegseth commands without questions and purging of US command leaders by firings if they do not follow Trump-Hegseth's orders, whether legal or not!
To say that these actions don't already violate US laws and US Military codes of law and justice hardly breaks the ice, no pun intended, upon the new "icebergs" of presumed loyalties-whether to the POTUS or to the US Constitution-that are presumably emerging in the Pentagon command chains of late 2026! Fear of being fired is a strong motivator for obeying whoever is above one in a military chain of command and the Trump -Hegseth US military has an extensive record of hundreds of such firings of all levels of US military leaders. In fact, news media comparisons of the numerical ratios involved today between US military leaders and combat soldiers have illustrated the odd coincidence that current numbers seem to approach the ones that were in effect in the US during World War II!
But FACTUALLY, the United States, and the rest of the world, are in a different place and time in 2026, and it is a question of whether or not Trump's military decisions of this time period are actually based upon outdated US military history manuals from the Second World War. That could explain the hero-worship-and anti-hero rhetoric-that Trump is noted for when referencing historical US military commanders from that era as well as the Vietnam War. A scary thought is that since Trump was born after WWII is that his only exposure to any actual people, including US military leaders, who survived the WWII era only really involved admiring fictional "movie hero" depictions from "war movies and film entertainment" productions that were created in the 1970's by US and Asian filmmakers during the time period of the Vietnam War. Hollywood productions with handsome, "manly" Admirals and Generals who inspired their soldiers to heroic victories and happy endings during fictional feature films based upon real WWII events such as "Tora Tora Tora!", "Midway", "1941" and many later "war movies" were the most likely inspirational sources of such "gung-ho" military actions taken by Trump since he was first elected in 2016 as POTUS. An interesting feature of these movies, however, is that they never depict the actual number of US soldier casualties in their films, instead having their leaders "in the movies" salute the dead-as Trump so often does in reality-when dead US soldiers are returned from places such as the Middle East after Iranian retaliation strikes against US base after Trump's first strike against Iran. But the real dead from the Iran War are real US soldiers serving a delusional US President. They do not suddenly spring back to life after the movie directors yell "CUT!". And neither do the Iranian victims of the US- led first strike. In retrospect, the US has several US military cemeteries where the thousands upon thousands of dead US soldiers from the very real combat operations of WWII-a war the US didn't start-are buried and memorialized as a testament to the necessity of the creation of the United Nations and their international treaties and agreed upon rules of the Geneva Convention and legalities and illegalities involved in any future war possibilities. Maybe Trump and Hegseth can visit the Arlington Memorial Cemetery, or the Golden Gate National Recreational US WWII Veterans Cemetery or many other US Veterans' graves and meditate upon the enormity of dead soldiers -notwithstanding the dead civilians- who aren't buried there, and meditate again upon the reasons why their survivors promised their children and grandchildren that they would do anything in their power to prevent any such future wars from happening. The problem today is that those same children and grandchildren are either gone today or are senior citizens in the 21st century. With Trump-Hegseth -in-charge, must the world again undergo millions of dead people globally from new wars that are being led by the United States in order to resurrect the anti-war ideologies of post-World War II that served as an operating worldwide guide for justice and humanitarianism in international policy-making all around the planet? Why sacrifice all or any of that anti-war ideology on behalf of an unqualified power-mad 21st century US President such as Trump, who was elected by the people inside of a populist political context and who deliberately failed in his promises not to start any new wars after being elected in 2026? And why vote for him or for any of his sycophant followers ever again?
Repairing and Restoring Equitable Justice in the USA After Trump.
Essay coming in November-December 2026!
Stupidity in Leadership Comes in Many Shapes Genders and Sizes.
Comments and Op-ed coming in December 2026!