The Attention Problem
The real problem in the United States right now isn’t a lack of information. It’s a lack of attention. People are scrolling through clips and memes and treating them as analysis. Very few are actually sitting down and doing even a little research, or making sure that they understand the core and the context of geopolitics as a subject, which is a shame, because the information is literally in the palm of your hand. This moment in history deserves more than a hot take.
I’ve been paying attention. One resource that’s helped me connect the dots is an ebook by AJ Inapi (Allan) called Foreign Policy Is Survival: A Young Conservative’s Guide to Power, Money, and How the World Really Works. It’s a genuinely good read, clear, grounded, and useful for understanding the fundamentals of how global power actually operates. Fundamentals don’t change, even when the headlines do. What follows is my own summary of what’s unfolding right now, informed by that foundation.
The Old Framework
Most people are still reading President Trump’s foreign policy through a lens that hasn’t been accurate for decades, and that disconnect is making it almost impossible to understand what’s actually unfolding. This isn’t normal politics. What’s being attempted is a fundamental restructuring of how America positions itself in the global order, and whether it succeeds or fails, every American should understand what’s at stake.
For roughly eighty years, the United States operated under what most people loosely call a globalist framework. America defended everyone, opened its markets to the world, subsidized allies, protected shipping lanes, and absorbed the costs of global stability while American factories closed, wages stagnated, communities hollowed out, and debt exploded at home. That system worked beautifully for multinational corporations, global institutions, and foreign economies. It worked considerably less well – read not at all, in the long run – for ordinary Americans watching manufacturing disappear and endless wars drain trillions with nothing to show for it. Meanwhile, China quietly climbed to superpower status using America’s own economic system as the ladder.
What’s Replacing It
What President Trump is attempting to replace that model with is something more transactional. An America-first coalition built around energy, trade, security, and manufacturing, where the United States is no longer carrying the world for free but sitting at the center of the world’s most consequential deal-making network. His recent Truth Social post about the Abraham Accords wasn’t just a statement. It was a blueprint for that new architecture.
The Coalition
If the framework holds, you’re looking at a potential coalition spanning the United States, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Pakistan, Türkiye, and partners across Latin America and the Indo-Pacific. This is a network representing well over half of global GDP. The goal isn’t utopia or the end of competition. It’s leverage – economic leverage, energy leverage, and trade leverage.
Instead of maintaining a crumbling unipolar system through military occupation and ideological crusades, the strategy positions America as the central negotiating power in a world that already has multiple major players, whether Washington or one side or the other likes it or not.
China, Russia, and Cold War Thinking
That’s also why the approach to China and Russia looks so different from Cold War thinking. That’s why it confuses people still expecting permanent hostility and escalation. The reality is that China is already an economic superpower and Russia remains a significant military and energy power. The question was never whether to accept that.
The question was always – or should have been – whether America could position itself at the center of a new balance rather than exhausting itself trying to deny it. Trade leverage instead of troop surges. Negotiated pressure instead of endless occupation. That is a fundamentally different operating logic, and it’s worth understanding on its own terms.
Why the Abraham Accords Matter
The Abraham Accords matter in this context because they represent a shift in the Middle East from perpetual conflict toward economic interdependence. Peace through prosperity rather than proxy wars. When that kind of framework takes hold, investment follows, energy markets calm, regional development accelerates, and security cooperation becomes mutually beneficial rather than externally forced. It doesn’t eliminate competition or guarantee stability. But it changes the incentive structure, and that changes behavior over time.
Will It Work?
Will all of this work? Honestly, nobody knows yet. The risks are real. Traditional allies are uneasy. Rival powers are watching carefully. There are contradictions baked into every part of it, and plenty of room for it to unravel. But Americans, especially younger Americans, need to understand the scale of what’s being attempted, because this will shape the world they inherit.
If America successfully repositions itself at the center of a new energy and trade coalition, the downstream effects touch jobs, housing, supply chains, energy prices, and long-term national stability. If it fails or gets abandoned halfway, the old system’s slow decline continues.
This deserves more than a political opinion. It deserves serious attention.
As Believers, We Cannot Be Passive
There’s a temptation in Christian circles to treat politics as someone else’s problem, to invoke separation of church and state as a reason to disengage entirely. But that phrase was never meant to call believers to spiritual passivity about the world around them. The intended separation is governmental: the state should not establish or control a church. It was never a mandate for Christians to stop thinking, praying, or paying attention to what happens in the halls of power.
Scripture is actually quite clear on this. We are called to pray for our leaders, all of them, regardless of how we feel about them personally (1 Timothy 2:1-2). We are called to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16). We are told that the powers that exist are ordained by God (Romans 13:1), which doesn’t mean every leader is godly, but it does mean that God is sovereign over the rise and fall of nations. That’s not a reason to check out. It’s a reason to pay close attention.
America’s Role in Prophecy
For those of us who take biblical prophecy seriously, there is another layer to all of this. I believe America plays a significant role in the fulfillment of end times prophecy, and what’s unfolding in the Middle East right now cannot be fully understood without that lens. I’ve written about this in depth in two recent posts (“The Stone Cut Without Hands” and “In That Day: Zechariah, Psalms 83, and the Prophetic Picture Nobody Is Discussing“), drawing on Daniel 2 and the framework of the four Gentile kingdoms. If you haven’t read those yet, I’d encourage you to start there. What’s happening right now is not just geopolitics. For those with eyes to see, it’s a prophetic moment worth watching.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord; He directs it like a watercourse wherever He pleases. (Proverbs 21:1)
Whatever we think of the man or the moment, the bigger story is always in God’s hands. Our job is simply to be informed enough to engage it wisely.
Closing Thoughts
We are living through a genuinely historic moment, and most people are going to miss it because they’re too busy reacting without full context, full knowledge, or full understanding – or even the awareness that what they’re consuming to inform themselves may be propaganda, no matter which side it’s coming from. The world is shifting in ways that will affect every generation that comes after us, and the least we can do is pay attention.
You don’t have to agree with every decision being made. You don’t have to be a partisan to engage with this seriously. But you do have to be informed, and you do have to be praying. Those two things are not in conflict. They never were. An informed believer who is actively praying over the leaders and nations of this world is exactly what this moment calls for.
Read. Research. Pray. And don’t let anyone convince you that staying aware is somehow unspiritual. Quite the opposite, in fact.
But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man. (Luke 21:36)
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