Not wasting a single moment, Trump quickly returned to the United States after meeting with Chinese officials, as there are two more wars waiting for him at home.

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After the meeting with China, Trump quickly returned to the United States.

This was not a last-minute decision, but had been planned all along. Trump came to South Korea for two things: to finalize a $35 billion investment plan from South Korea to the US and to meet with Chinese leaders.

After several days of intensive diplomacy, it's quite tiring for an 80-year-old man.

Now that the goals have been achieved, there's no need to stay any longer. For the APEC Summit and multilateral diplomacy, he wasn't very interested. The continuous diplomatic activities have left him physically and mentally exhausted, and besides, there are two "wars" waiting for him at home.

The first war is against the Democratic Party in the US. On Tuesday local time, the US Senate once again rejected a funding bill aimed at ending the government shutdown, and the US government continued to be closed down. The day Trump returned to the US was the 29th day of the government shutdown.

It is well known that although the two parties in the US often fight fiercely, they still have considerable consensus on passing temporary funding bills to avoid a government shutdown. Even if they sometimes can't reach an agreement, they usually only shut down for a few days. Now, it has been almost a month, and the deadlock is still ongoing, which is quite unusual.

The US government continues to be closed

The core contradiction between the two parties lies in the Democrats' insistence on including health insurance benefits in the funding bill, while the Republicans disagree. Therefore, the Democrats repeatedly reject the Republican proposals.

But interestingly, it is not the Republicans who are eager to open the government, but the Democrats. This is because some public projects will be suspended during the government shutdown, and Trump wants to take this opportunity to cut the Democrats' projects, giving them a heavy blow.

For example, the "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program" that the Democrats are so fond of, if the government continues to be shut down, the US Department of Agriculture will stop distributing food assistance to low-income people from next month, and most of these people are supporters of the Democratic Party.

As long as the shutdown continues, the Republicans can blame the Democrats for deliberately not passing the funding bill, making the poor hungry, thus weakening the support of the lower voters for the Democratic Party.

It was the happiest time in Japan

Even whether government employees and military soldiers can get their salaries depends on Trump's mood. Those loyal to the president get their pay, while those associated with the Democrats have to wait until the government reopens.

When Trump was hugging Takahashi Hayano at the US military base in Japan and gave a speech, he immediately said that he supported raising the salary of every soldier present, and the audience cheered loudly.

Of course, the prolonged government shutdown also worries the Republicans, because it's under Trump's term that the government is closed. American voters will definitely hold them responsible, which may affect the midterm elections next year.

Therefore, Trump must return to the US quickly to pressure the Democrats to pass the funding bill as soon as possible, otherwise, he will have to face the anger of 42 million hungry people.

The other war is a potential foreign war. On the day the US Congress rejected the funding bill, the US Secretary of Defense, Hegseth, announced three "fatal strikes" against drug-running ships in the Caribbean, resulting in 14 deaths.

The US "Ford" aircraft carrier strike group sails near Latin American waters

At the same time, Hegseth also revealed an unusual piece of information. He said that after several days of "anti-drug" operations, the US military has almost blocked the maritime and land transport channels of Latin American drug cartels, and now it's time for the land routes.

In other words, the US military may launch ground military actions, using the drug trafficking as an excuse to attack Venezuela, aiming to overthrow the anti-American Maduro government, and a US-Venezuela war is about to break out.

At the moment when the "Air Force One" took off from the Korean airport, a bigger storm had just begun.



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