The battle against Corona ... Trump's decisions in the balance of US warlords

Mohammed Al-Minshawi-Washington

Some senior US officials have said that the developments of the Coruna epidemic, and the associated high number of casualties, are making their country a "state at war", and President Donald Trump has presented himself as head of state in a state of war against what he described as an invisible enemy, saying that " Very, very difficult situation. "

As for the American general surgeon, Admiral Jerome Adams, he was more pessimistic when he said, "This will be the most difficult week and the saddest week in the lives of most Americans."

Admiral Adams added while participating in TV talk shows last Sunday, "It will be like the moment of Pearl Harbor or the moment of September 11 (2001), but it will not be in one place", indicating that the Corona virus does not attack one area, but rather It spreads throughout the United States.

The attack on Japan's "Pearl Harbor" base on the American Pacific Fleet in 1941 killed 2,400 Americans, which led to Washington declaring war on Tokyo and entering the World War II battle.

As for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, it resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans, followed by Washington's declaration of war on what it then called "global terrorism."

War chief
Describing Trump as president in a war situation has prompted many experts and analysts to compare Trump's decisions with his counterparts' decisions in the case of major wars in the United States.

The US president did not acknowledge that there was a grave risk to his country due to the epidemic until the middle of last month, and he continued to deny the dangers of the Corona virus to the United States for two months, even after he informed the health authorities of the size of the risks expected in mid-January.

Trump did not make fateful decisions to confront the dangers of the virus that resulted, until the end of Monday, the death of 11 thousand Americans, and the injury of more than 369 thousand others.

After Trump appeared to be in a dangerous situation, he signed a $ 2.2 trillion congressional economic aid package to support the affected sectors, such as airlines and small companies, and also included giving every American whose income is less than $ 75,000 a year financial support worth $ 1,200 a month.

The Trump administration has also decided to activate the Defense Production Act, which allows it to compel companies to produce the ventilators needed to counter the spread of the Corona epidemic.

Comparing Trump’s decisions with their counterparts made by the heads of the “state of war” in American history provides an insight into what the US President has done so far.

Abraham's decisions
President Abraham Lincoln made decisions between 1861 and 1865 that helped to preserve the United States ’union from separation and division during the civil war that ravaged the new union at the time.

Lincoln succeeded in returning the states that separated from the union by force of arms, and legally ending slavery in 1865.

To achieve the aforementioned, Lincoln was able to form an army from the northern states of one million men, at a time when the population reached 20 million, meaning that the strength of the army according to the current conditions exceeds 16 million fighters.

Wilson's Decisions
Former US President Woodrow Wilson did not enter the First World War except compelled. He was an academic with a PhD in political science from Johns Hopkins University and headed the prestigious Princeton University before becoming president.

Wilson led the United States during the war, and the compulsory military service law was introduced. Ten thousand individuals were recruited daily, and they were sent to France to contribute to the war effort, the president raised taxes on income, and borrowed billions of dollars from the people by issuing government bonds, and founded the Industries Council War, and nationalize all the railroad systems in the country.

After the war, Woodrow received the Nobel Peace Prize after he proposed the founding of the League of Nations, which was instrumental in bringing it to light.

Roosevelt decisions
Franklin D. Roosevelt won four consecutive presidential elections, and emerged as a central figure before the outbreak of World War II by fighting and winning in the Battle of the Great Depression that struck the United States in 1929.

In the first hundred days of his tenure, Roosevelt passed a set of federal laws to provide relief to the people by creating government jobs for millions of unemployed people, and reforming the Wall Street Stock Exchange.

After the sudden Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor base in December 1941, the president won congressional approval to declare war on Japan, and then declared war on Germany a few days later.

Roosevelt oversaw the mobilization of the American economy to support the war effort on European and Asian fronts, and implemented a war strategy on both fronts, which ended in the defeat of the Axis powers (Japan, Germany, and Italy) before overseeing the development and production of the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan in 1945. After the war, he supervised President Roosevelt on the establishment of the United Nations, the establishment of the Bretton Woods system to regulate the global economy.

Trump's chance
The consequences of the spread of the Corona virus in the past weeks have changed the face of the world and the United States. More than 74,000 people have died around the world, and more than one million and 350,000 have been infected with the epidemic so far. The global economy has stopped with the closure of companies, factories, schools and universities, and more than three billion of Humans are isolated in an unprecedented home.

The gloomy conditions in the world and the United States provide a rare historical circumstance for US President Donald Trump to know and evaluate his decisions, and the coming days will reveal whether or not a Trump opportunity will emerge in these exceptional circumstances or a rare opportunity that he missed to shed light on his historical legacy.