spin off crisis with trump. the biggest crisis is if the world no longer can count on the country that as flawed as it is has been the only guarantee and leading super-power of the 30 year post cold war era. this is something that began before trump became president. but has been accelerated by president trump in a way that causes instability and risk in the world to go up. as far as isis goes. you have seen a really fascinating theme. donald trump conflated himself with troops on the ground. i don't know if you notice. again and again he said i'm the one who personally destroyed isis. using this pronoun over and over again. it's odd almost. what that means for the united states is trump has taken ownership over whatever happens next. he was warned there were consequences of unleashing potentially a new way of dangerous tariffs and