As the calendar year of 2024 continues to advance ever deeper and the summer continues, warmer weather, blooming flowers, the agricultural planting season and the return of major league baseball and other outdoor activities are staple occurrences over the next several weeks and months in the United States of America. While all of these seasonal developments may be simplistic reasons for individual joviality, the larger picture of human affairs is quite abysmal. Since the 2021 calendar year and the beginning of the 46th president of the United States Joe Bidens first term in office, the United States has appeared increasingly on a downward spiral. The state of the American economy is questionable at best, as it is estimated that some 6 out of every 10 Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Rampant inflation has crushed the American working class, and the cost of necessities like food, water and energy costs have skyrocketed to such an extent that people are struggling to survive. Additionally, wages have largely stagnated, and the power of the dollar continues to decline. Powers like Russia and China continue to grow, and the relationship between them and the west continues to worsen. While Russia remains locked in a war against Ukraine in the eastern part of Europe, China continues to act aggressively in the pacific. There are even rumors that China may influence the upcoming presidential election.
As things continue to remain volatile domestically and internationally for the United States, allied NATO leaders continue to show nervous sentiments as conflict in eastern Europe and rising tensions in the pacific worry the western power bloc. The Polish President, Andrzej Duda, claimed that he would be willing to work with any American President, Trump, Biden, or whoever is elected, to address the tensions. He claimed that it is time for western powers to stop arguing, and face the reality that a “cold war” climate has returned in international politics.
