Financial collapse is coming. This has been in the cards for decades; it has been written about endlessly and the relevant factors described by many experts and observers.

America's national debt is $39 trillion as of April 2026 -- and that doesn't count the much LARGER hidden debt of unfunded liabilities (Medicare, Social Security, VA benefits, etc etc).

When combined with the official national debt, total federal obligations could surpass $200 trillion.

Most people (including many here, I expect) would take the first sentence in this post as hyperbole. I assure you, it isn't. We are headed for a financial crisis that will make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like good times.

Correction: We WOULD BE headed for such a disaster if our President were anyone but Donald Trump.

I don't know, at least in any detail, how Trump plans to save America (and probably much of the world, as usual) from this seemingly unavoidable nightmare, nor do I expect it to be smooth sailing.

Naturally, Trump's push to cut regulatory overload, root out America's massive corruption, quit spending trillions of dollars fighting "climate change", and otherwise stop throwing our money down the drain (or worse), and other common-sense measures will help. By themselves, though, they'd not stop the collapse.

But that's not all Trump's doing, and planning to do. I'm pretty sure that some of those EOs that Trump authored in his first administration (such as one issued 12/21/2017 blocking assets by various classes of criminals, here and abroad) will be involved. Probably something related to the Federal Reserve, also. And . . . well, lots of things.

But Trump, the #1 modern student of The Art of War, has always kept his plans to himself, giving hints which may or may not be disinformation, but never letting the enemy see enough to really prepare. He surprises us all, constantly, whenever the issue involves conflict.

And putting America back on the path to prosperity DOES involve conflict, because our financial troubles have been created by thieves and tyrants working on a global scale.

I look forward (with some trepidation) to seeing how it all plays out.

Below, the article that triggered this particular train of thought:

https://www.oftwominds.com/blogmay26/crisis-good-guys5-26.html

Remember: In a Crisis, Everyone Will Consider Themselves 'The Good Guys'

The state has two monopolies it must protect whatever the cost: the monopoly on decreeing what is legal tender and on force.

We're entering an era in which push comes to shove will lead to immovable objects encountering irresistible forces. All sorts of verities and vanities will be bulldozed as kicking the can down the road descends into desperation to stave off collapse, a desperation that unleashes second order effects the desperate did not anticipate. The only responses at this late stage are even more desperate, so desperation is self-reinforcing.