New data shows that Germany has suddenly emerged as the world’s fourth-largest military spender, our feature story this morning shows. What does this mean for the world? Josué Michels explains by looking at history and biblical prophecy.

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Canada votes leftist to spite Trump: It’s a sad day for Canada. For over a year, the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre, had been leading in the polls by double digits—a reaction against the disastrous Justin Trudeau years. But yesterday, in a stunning turnaround, voters installed another Liberal-led government, our In Brief reports. Canada’s next prime minister will be Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, a Europe-oriented technocrat with no prior elected office.

Why the shift? Donald J. Trump.

Initially, it was Trump who put pressure on Trudeau to step down. But as he ramped up the rhetoric about trade war and making Canada the 51st state, anger drove voters toward the Liberals. As the Telegraph wrote:

How foolish are Canadian voters? They have just kept a politically inexperienced prime minister and largely discredited Liberal minority government in power because of their frustration with a U.S. president.

The main feature of Carney’s victory speech was he was going to fight against Donald Trump. So we can expect Canada to become more belligerent and antagonistic against America. We can also expect continued green-energy policies, record debt spending, and recession. We can expect more censorship legislation and government overreach.

A Conservative victory probably would have made the trade war less severe. It would have paused the censorship and other aspects of the radical-left agenda. But to put an exclamation point on a stunning electoral collapse, Poilievre lost his own seat.

As to the composition of Carney’s government, official seat counts will come out later today. Right now he has 167 seats, with 172 needed for a majority; there is still a chance he could get it. But in the end, it might not matter:

• The NDP (socialist party) collapsed, and it appears most of their voters went to the Liberals. Instead of having three main parties (Liberals, Conservatives, NDP), last night looked more like an American two-party system. The NDP told supporters to do anything to stop Pierre Poilievre, so they voted for Mark Carney.
• The Quebec separatist party, the Bloc Québécois, will have the third-most seats, and they will likely help the Liberals. Carney worked hard to pander to Quebec during the election, so a union of convenience is likely.
• The NDP and Bloc will likely help Carney at first because both parties have vowed to work against the Conservative Party, so he may be able to effectively govern with a majority.

Carney indicated he wanted to pivot to Europe as his first act as prime minister. In his speech, he called this a hinge moment in Canada’s history and said the post-World War II economic order is over.

President Trump may have helped a hostile, Communist government stay in power, and maybe even grow in power. Still, it was Canadians who chose to hate Trump rather than rebuke the Liberal Party for destroying the country over the past decade. Canadians have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

The first 100 days—good, bad and ugly: The fact that Donald Trump made it back to the White House was a stunning miracle and a fulfillment of biblical prophecy. Now he is 100 days into what is undoubtedly the most consequential term of any president’s in American history.

• President Trump signed over 139 executive orders, 39 proclamations and 42 memoranda, slashing Biden-era regulations, ending the electric vehicle mandate, and unleashing American energy through expanded drilling.
• Border security saw huge wins, with illegal crossings plummeting to a 25-year low. ICE arrested some 113,000 illegal aliens, an estimated three quarters of whom have criminal convictions or pending charges.
• Trump has spurred massive investment: Official White House statements and aligned sources claim Trump has secured over $5.2 trillion in total investments, with significant foreign contributions.
• Social policy has moved in the right direction, like scrapping DEI programs and restoring free speech by ending government censorship.

However, the administration has also overpromised and under-delivered, if not made some serious mistakes, particularly with foreign policy.

• The Department of Government Efficiency promised to slash $2 trillion in federal spending and reduce the workforce by 10 percent. Now Elon Musk is all but leaving, and the savings have amounted to perhaps tens of billions.
• On-and-off tariffs that sparked trade war could have been handled in ways that accomplished far more with far less disruption and chaos in international markets.
• Peace efforts with Hamas, Russia, Ukraine and Iran have proved to be far more challenging than Trump apparently anticipated.

Some of these outcomes must be attributed to the administration itself. But a great deal of its trouble in delivering on its promises has come from stiff opposition by Trump’s political opponents. Entrenched bureaucrats, careerist officials and activist judges are systematically undermining his initiatives. In the latest attack, yesterday a U.S. representative introduced articles of impeachment against the president. It is a grim echo of the ugliness of Trump’s first term. As the Telegraph wrote, “Executive Orders, Tariffs and Lawsuits: How the ‘Deep State’ Is Outmaneuvering Trump”:

[A]s the opening 100 days of Trump’s second term draw to a close, his radical agenda has this week been blunted or repelled on multiple fronts. … Because the blob is not rolling over. The blob is fighting back. …

If he is brought low, however, trammeled and contained by a thousand obstructions like Gulliver tied in knots by the Lilliputians, he will be forced to turn to more conventional political means. That means relying on notoriously fractious Republicans in Congress to pass legislation in pursuit of his goals before midterm elections. Radicalism will be out. Caution back in.

Just 100 days in, then, the stakes could hardly be higher. If Trump falters now, he may be doomed to see out the rest of his term raging in futility against the structures that thwarted him. And that is precisely what his enemies are hoping for.

The Bible prophesies a resurgence for America under Trump. It also prophesies of terrible curses overtaking the nation and leading to its downfall. One hundred days into Trump’s second term, we see these two forces locking horns. Precisely how events will play out to fulfill those prophecies is an open question—but the future of the republic is tottering.

IN OTHER NEWS:

Nuclear fears increase in Asia: A recent attack in Kashmir, bordering India and Pakistan, is escalating tensions between the two nuclear powers, our In Brief reports.

Europe’s military buildup: Germany wants the EU to activate an emergency clause to “rapidly increase defense spending,” Peter van Halteren reports.

German cardinal: Pope must stand up to “gay lobby”: Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a staunch critic of Pope Francis, insists the next pope must be a doctrinally robust orthodox leader to counter liberal pressures and prevent a schism. This is the type of talk we expect to see more of in the coming weeks.

Harvard trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group sanctioned by the U.S. in 2020 for its role in the Uyghur genocide. Harvard University removed references to the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps’ participation after inquiries. The ivory tower’s moral decay keeps getting exposed, one scandal at a time.