While I was on safari in South Africa I was told a story about juvenile elephants. Now you may ask, what on Earth does this have to do with world governments? I will get to that.

Seems they were relocating elephants to protect the herds, stop poaching and land destruction. Juvenile elephants were relocated to protected areas in South Africa. Turns out they became very destructive to the land and started chasing, playing with and killing rhinoceroses. This was a problem because they were also trying to protect the rhinoceroses.

The solution to the problem was to bring in some bull elephants. Within a month, the juvenile elephants were well behaved and left the rhinoceroses alone.

Now we come to the US as the 800-pound gorilla. The United States has been clearly the world super power since the second World War; the 800-pound gorilla. For the past eight years that leadership has been in question by actions and statements. And we have had other nations take advantage of that. The world bullies and tyrannical governments have moved into that void and tried to further their agendas. Just like the juvenile elephants without senior supervision.

Many of these agendas have threatened the United States and our allies. Under Trump’s leadership, the United States’ role as the world’s super power has quickly been reasserted.

Hopefully, like the bull elephants limiting the destructive behavior of the juvenile elephants, the United States has shown rogue nations that it is not in their best interest to continue their threatening agendas.