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On July 13, 2024, as he turned to consult a chart, an assassin's bullet grazed the presidential candidate's right ear.

A half-inch to the right -- to be graphic, the bullet hitting the human being's head -- and 2024's biggest news story would be the history-destroying murder of Donald Trump.

The bad guy missed. Instead, we witness the amazing physical experience 1) of two failed assassination attempts on candidate Trump's life (Pennsylvania, July 13 and Florida, Sept. 15); 2) of human tenacity confronting crude lawfare and media propaganda (numerous examples, most vile in New York and Georgia); and 3) of a history-shaping political victory in the most significant American election since 1980.

Why 1980? In 1980, Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter. Reagan was vilified by the usual media suspects (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.). He was called a dolt and a fascist -- small "f" but the same slander Trump suffered from Kamala Harris and ABC and the usual doofs.

Carter was a well-meaning dolt but proved to be an easily rolled liberal Democrat bumbler who brought the Ayatollah Khomeini to power in Iran. Bottom line: Carter was a failure.

Honest history (which means verified with footnotes) credits Reagan with smashing the Soviet Union's propaganda (media) fabricated 1983 Euro-Missile Crisis.

If you don't know about it, you are strategically ignorant. If you do, thumbs up!

Reagan's defeat of the 1983 Moscow missile ploy, plus his Pentagon buildup and missile defense initiative, led to the Soviet Union's (Commie imperial Russia's) collapse and the end of the Cold War.

Unfortunately, imperial Russia's back and invading Ukraine -- on Barack Obama's (2014 -- plus annexing Crimea) and Joe Biden's watch (2022 -- the ongoing bloodbath Trump intends to end).

Mucho factual history in those last four paragraphs. Read them again before reading the following summarizing and connecting paragraph:

Trump's 2024 "every state matters" campaign (a nationwide go for each vote campaign despite the lawfare and slander), Trump's survival of two assassination attempts, Trump's tenacious and positive American energy, Trump's indisputable November reelection with a popular vote and electoral vote victory ...

Add them up. They are an amazing physical experience and all told they are more than 2024's biggest news story. They are a political and cultural saga.

Hollywood plot? No. An American democratic with a small "d" positive verdict.

Which I argue makes the case that 2024's most significant geo-strategic event was the July 13 near-assassination Trump survived.

Geo-strategic -- it affects and effects events and actors within the U.S. and globally.

(Grammarians concerned with affect and effect: that last sentence totally works.)

Events since Trump's November election victory support this conclusion.

Thought president-elect, internationally Trump's already perceived as president.

Why?

Super example: Canada's retreat on tariff threats. Pierre Trudeau has been exposed as a farce.

But this is more important: Every foreign head of state's intel agency knows Biden is demented and corrupt. They've known it since 2021.

Foreign governments also know Trump understands leverage (how to use power). They also understand Trump has definite goals (American revival and American economic recovery). They also know when Trump says he has a redline, he means it. (See Syria, chemical weapons redline unenforced by Obama, and then Trump enforcing in September 2017 what Obama fecklessly failed to enforce.)

Since October 2023, Israel has smashed Hamas and Hezbollah, despite Biden administration pleas for Israeli "restraint." Praise Israeli nonrestraint, for smashing Hamas and Hezbollah has made possible implementing the Trump Administration 1's Abraham Accords -- an Israeli and Arab peace based on economic interest and defense against Iranian imperialism.

Biden and his Beltway Clerk cohorts Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan threw away the Abraham Accords -- because they were Trump's idea.

Stupid? I report, you decide.

With Trump 2, the Abraham Accords are once again a Nobel Peace Prize-winning prospect.

More strategic payoff: Communist China is once again wary. Trump knows how to attack what really motivates Beijing's Commies -- money. Beijing fears tariffs. But Beijing also relies on elite American corruption -- and Trump will squelch that. (For evidence, see Hunter Biden's laptop.)

As for Ukraine? I think Trump intends to restrain the slaughter, in hopes of a resilient future peace.

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