In Biblical contexts, War, Death, Pestilence and Famine. Well, with the Trump administration, check, check, check, and check!
War? Trump set the stage for capitulation in Afghanistan, and is ready to do his own Manchurian Candidate imitation for Ukraine.
Source: ISW, 13 March 2025.
Death? See below (remembering “bleach” and Mr. Trump’s approach to the covid pandemic).
Figure 1: Current hospitalizations (blue, left scale), 7 days moving average of deaths (brown). Source: Covid Tracking Project, accessed 11/6/2020, author’s calculations.
Pestilence. At least measles, if not bird flu.
Famine? Cutting off USAID funding is definitely going to cause starvation in developing countries.
Source: CRS.