Threat Assessment

I'm not going to give a lecture on how to scan a room or check a street. If you don't know how, a few paragraphs from me won't teach you. Rather this is about assessing the many threats America now faces as seen from a redneck perspective.
Russia. Our arch villain is still an arch villain. They always will be. They are competition in many fields Couple that with the fact they are now partnered with Iran makes for a serious problem. Remember the Bible? Gog and Magog? Iran and Russia, and they threaten us as well as Israel. How much though? besides the military aspect as we continue to battle Isis and Al-quaida, there is also the economic balance as President Trump has signaled a challenge by agreeing to sell natural gas to Poland. There is also the ever present rivalry as we sell arms they sell arms and idiot in far off lands continue to murder each other.
Russia has the capability to wipe us off the map, but they risk a retaliatory strike which would eliminate them as well. If things in this country destabilize, they might take advantage of the chaos though. Magog is not going away.
North Korea. The crazy little shit could pull the trigger at any time. Can his missiles reach our shores? keep in mind that he is partly a puppet of China, and they control him to a large extent. We have borrowed billions from China, so they don't want triviality to waste their investment. Still, a tantrum could happen at any time. We must also keep in mind that China could use him to attack us by proxy thereby keeping their hands "clean".
China. The Asian power house has their hand in many things. their tentacles reached deep into the communist party candidates going back to the Clinton years when they attempted to fund Al Gore's campaign. They were allowed to get away with a lot during Barry's terms as well. China has created islands which encroach on Several Indo-Chinese nations including Vietnam and the Philippines. They are also tied to Pakistan and the continued problems in that region as they undermine our efforts to stabilize that region.
With China we also must factor in global warming. What? It's a hoax. We know it's a hoax, but it was a hoax that benefited China as they were the ones who stood to gain industrial power as manufacturing in the United States and Europe were targeted to decline and eventually cease. Instead, President Trump is canceling Christmas. The transfer of power from us at least, won't happen any time soon. Ad to that the tech for solar and wind is mostly controlled from China. Most solar panels are manufactured there as are the DC controllers which make generators functionable.
Europe. While they have never been our official enemy, they also are not our bestus friends. The relationship has mostly been, they fuck up, we bail them out. They fuck up, we bail them out. Well, they are fucking up again. Gonna be real hard to clean up Merkel's mess.
Islam. I'm not going to break it down and attempt to separate the various factions. A main stream muslim wants to kill you, a less fanatical muslim want a mainstream muzzie to kill you. The creedo of this satanic crowd is convert or kill, and kill as many as possible including those who converted because since they converted, they might un-convert. Mostly they are Europe's problem. They are a problem for us in that they control a vast quantity of oil. As such we can't simple ignore them. They are also a problem for us because virtue signaling liberals like to keep them around in the same way drug rats are drawn to vicious dogs and we now have too may of them infecting decaying cities. We should have been smart when we began accepting these rapefugees and consolidated them some place, like Hawaii. Or Guam, then Lil Kimmy's missiles would benefit us if he got out of control.
Antifa. The folks fascists who are anti Freedom and America are determined to tear us down from with in. I seriously doubt they have a clue why they are really doing it, but they are in large part funded by former and unrepentant nazi, George Soros. Maybe he hasn't forgiven us for stopping his hero, Hitler? In any case though, these spoiled brats are more a symptom than a problem. We've had anti-Americans from the get go. Only a small percentage of people in the colonies were hard core patriots. some were fair weather, most could not care one way or the other, but there were some who wanted to serve the king and after Yorktown, they were stuck in a nation they did not want to be part of. The United States has had an influx of foreigners from the beginning. Europe saw us as a dumping ground for their trash. From criminals not worthy of Australia to the miscreant children of the elite, we got a lot of the stones builders were rejecting, and we built a great and noble nation from that. In any group though there is the pecking order. Two guys? One is gonna be the leader the other the follower.
Even the bottom of the barrel has some one who thinks they should be boss.
At some point things evolved. Instead of getting the rejects, we started getting the social cream. Most of it is sour, but we got it any way. Our universities began to allocate slots for foreign students. That meant fewer American children becoming doctors and physicists. That bred discontent.
That is only one example, there are thousands. Dad was a war hero, but we don't have a great war to fight. Brother got the business, I got to be his serf. Millions of reasons. The sad part is, it is a cycle that has been repeated through history, and we are on the downward slide to our eventual oblivion. There is indeed nothing new under the sun.

So where does that leave you and me? There are 350 million people claiming to be Americans. Of that total, only about ten million are willing to fight to preserve the nation. An equal number or more are fighting to destroy the nation. Some in the name of globalism, others who see social injustice and would destroy anything that has been built no matter. They are like rats in a cage who will drag down anyone that tries to be better. That is the mentality that holds down most of America. They are the 53% who voted for a socialist and all the policies that have failed in every place they have been tried.
It is from that swill that we get antifa. It is that pollution that spawns black lies matter, and it is in that garbage that we are drowning now.
Antifa is only a symptom. The problem is parents who let it happen. Grandparents who tolerated schools that were not educating our children, and  government that worked to help the world and not help our selves. No, I'm not advocating welfare. The day we put a kid from China ahead of a kid from Cincinnati we made a mistake. I'm not anti immigrant, so don't read that into my statement.  I refer only to the ones who come here, get an education and leave. It would have been better if we had educated an all American kid and sent him to China instead. We screwed up when we gave up American know how that wasn't in American shoes. Now we are paying the price.
We are nothing more than a lone buffalo surrounded by lions who are waiting for the chance to bring us down. Our civil unrest is like a parasite chewing away at our entrails, slowly weakening us. Sorry President Trump, as empires go, we won't be great again. History and all that.