In 2017, during World War I, Vladimir I. Linin returned to Russia and orchestrated the Bolshevik Revolution, resulting in the establishment of the Soviet Union and the subjugation of Russia and neighboring countries for seven decades until Ronald Reagan said, “Tear down this wall.” (Check your history books on that one if you’re too young to remember.)
This is important because we see signs of Lenin’s revolution taking place here in the U.S.: The election of communist mayors in New York and Seattle, and a public uprising in Minneapolis that has all the earmarks of a Bolshevik insurrection. However, that’s not why I bring up Lenin.
More importantly, Vladimir was quite the prescient person, not only in his timing of the Bolshevik Revolution, but also in his observations on world affairs. Case in point: the Wall Street Journal, in an article today titled “The First Three Weeks of the Year Will Reshape the World,” quotes Lenin as saying: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
The first three weeks are already gone bye=bye, so what happened that will reshape the world, according to the WSJ?
First, of course, is Trump’s push for control of Greenland, a move that threatens decades of a U.S.-European security alliance. Second are events on the home front, typified most recently by riots in Minneapolis, which shouldn’t be surprising since Minnesota is the only state that didn’t vote for Reagan in 1984. And third is Trump’s push for global leadership in semiconductors and AI development.
All so true, so we’ll have to see if these first three weeks do indeed reshape the world. Vital signs:
Europe is finally rearming to defend itself — nothing wrong with that. Taiwan Semiconductor’s agreement to build plants in the U.S. to develop the world’s fastest, greatest semiconductor chips on U.S. soil — ditto, a win-win. Riots in the U.S. and elections of communists — not so great.
I’d say that, for Trump and Republicans, the first three weeks spell huge losses in the midterm elections. That, of course, will result in multiple Trump impeachments and a virtually paralyzed domestic agenda, which in turn could result in the election of a Mamdani-style Demofiend as president in 2028.
V.I. Lenin, how prescient you were.
