Trump brags about a lot of things. He's constantly the greatest, most xyz in history. Everything is amazing right now and was a catastrophe under previous administrations. He claims he will annex Greenland and Canada. There's no reason to believe his third term ramblings are actually honest, much less practical.

I won't bore you with the details, but I fully believe he only ran for president in '24 because it was his only way to avoid prison. He was staring at two slam dunk convictions and his only outs were fleeing the country or taking over the department prosecuting him.

And even if he were to somehow circumvent the Constitution and fool the electorate that has, just this week, overwhelmingly told him he sucks, he's still not the dictator/mob boss that Putin has been for 30 years. He aspires to be that but Americans just aren't Russians.

> things are still looking really bleak internationally.

Yeah, it kind of sucks when the hegemon becomes this dumb hydra of isolationism, extortion, and military adventurism. Europe is doing a solid job of insulating itself from its mercurial western ally, I hope things will return to normal before too long.