Situation Report – January 2026

Originally published Jan 16, 2026 for our weekly Issue of Mindful Intelligence Advisor.  Subscribe to get weekly issues.

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INTRODUCTION

This is not a full analysis of world events, but rather an analysis of bellwether events, regions, trends, and countries that tell the overarching story of the world in January 2026, which is still the struggle to define the new order as the old order comes crashing down around them.

Our analysis is from an Americanist perspective, nested within our Christian belief system.

Our last Bellwether report in our December 2025 issue began with the announced resignation of Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum. This month, President Trump’s invasion of Davos marks the official death of the globalist project. This was not just done with speeches, but, leading up to Davos, with an action against Venezuela that made it clear America was playing solely in its own self-interest, not in the interest of the global order.

At home, America versus Progmerica is beginning to form, and the battle between ICE agents and Progmerican insurrectionists is clarifying that division. DNC media outlets are openly spreading provable knowable lies about ICE agents that are clearly intended (in our opinion) to incite more violence against them and their family members.

As the ICE wars rage, good economic news for the American republic is buried by this criminal press. Trump’s tariff strategy, for instance, is bringing in billions in revenue and helping to restore American industry (especially the steel industry). The news is not all good on the economic front as major companies continue to announce tens of thousands of layoffs ahead for 2026.

The inchoate state of the American republic compared to the Progmerican Empire is what has advantaged the Progmericans for a while now. Progmericanism has been smuggled in, from on top, using American words with Progmerican definitions. Americans were mostly partly Progmericans, without realizing it, so they could no longer clearly see how antithetical to American values Progressivism is.

We are beginning to see that inchoate state more clearly form as people in this land are being forced to discover the differences between Progmerican values and American ones, and, fortunately, so far, most are choosing America. Let us hope that continues and accelerates in the coming weeks and months.

This report was completed on January 29, 2026

A. AMERICA

The ICE Wars now dominate the American landscape with media outlets becoming increasingly overt in their war messaging, a war message aimed directly at the heart of the American republic. So far, no conservative leader, including President Trump, has openly called the media an information terrorist organization illegally campaigning for the Democrat Party even though it is obvious at this point what the media is doing.

This fact alone makes one question how much of the old Progmerican infrastructure this regime wants to hold on to. To us, it would seem he wants to hold on to more than we had hoped for. He wants to hold on to the potential for media power for his faction is what we suspect.

We keep getting teases of serious 2020 election investigations, and we get another tease this month after FBI agents seized the ballots and ballot records from Fulton County, GA for that election. This could be what leads to the final undoing of the DNC in America, but this writer will believe it when the DNC leadership is convicted and punished.

Should the election be proven to have been fraudulent, this would give President Trump the power to do what we have been calling him to do since 2017, declare a state of insurrection, follow that up by declaring the Democrat Party a terrorist organization, seize its assets (its media, its corporations), remove Democrats from all state institutions, including government and the schools, arrest the leaders and punish the leaders that are duly convicted (through a Rule of Law process).

The 2026 election will obviously look radically different should the 2020 election be rightly overturned. Barring that, the DNC has a better-than-average chance at retaking both the U.S. House and Senate, which would mean more terror, more chaos for Americans should that happen.

For a taste of what’s to come, look no further than New York and Virginia, where Democrats coming in to power have moved swiftly to cement Progmerica as the Rule of Law in the land over American Rule of Law.

Mayor Mamdani is already opening the coffers to illegal aliens and telling New Yorkers they need to “renegotiate their relation to the state,” and Governor Spanberger is already moving to confiscate Virginians’ guns. Progmerican Virginia is also moving to double their politicians’ pay immediately, as government grifters are wont to do.

Both seem fully committed to violating the constitution openly for as long as they can get away with it, hoping to establish Progmerican Rule of Law (social-based justice) so the final impediment to full Progmerican power, individual-based Rule of Law, becomes precedented out of existence.

A 2020 Election Overturn and the criminalization of the DNC would end their reigns, but short of that, their terms will be filled out by violence, hate, and economic disaster, leaving both the state and the city husks of their former glory.

Right now, the 2026 election looks tight, but should the economic boom happen that some think is coming, the Democrats might be struggling for an effective competing message outside of promising more murdering of babies and confiscating of guns. Their days of sinking campaigns with charges of racism and homophobia are over, they’ll have to stand on their own apocalyptic record (which will be seen in the regions in which they continue to rule).

B. WORLD

The state of the world in our December 2025 SitRep was radically different than the state of the world today. As a news analyst and aggregator (see our aggregation work at mindfulintelligence.news), never have there been more major news events happening daily in my 20-plus years of work. Stories that don’t show up in our Global Outlook reports would have been top stories in more stable times.

While everyone saw the writing on the wall, now they know for sure; unless they can topple American power, the UN project is dead. China is still desperately trying to save it, for it understands the UN is an American carburetor, an intentional impediment to her real power/

With the capture of Maduro from underneath China’s protection by the U.S., the global order was served notice.

That notice was cemented in Davos as Trump and his team continue to serve notice to the global order that America was taking its proverbial ball and heading home and also NOT heading home.

Greenland continues to serve as a Bellwether of the struggle between Europe’s hopes for moral restraint that only serves their interests and America’s hopes of having a secure homeland in the wake of weak “allies” whose values are increasingly anathema to ours.

Before the next issue, we might see TWO significant regime changes, one in China and one in Iran, though we might also see more internal violence as Xi in China and Khamenei in Iran murder their way to consolidated power (but at great cost to both nations).

In China, we could see Xi fall but the CCP still retain power, though we believe if Xi is replaced, even if by the CCP, the CCP’s hold on the country will be even more tenuous than it already is unless it makes drastic reforms that will effectively end its complete police-state power.

1. VENEZUELA – When the United States quickly invaded Venezuela and surgically removed their President, Nicholas Maduro, China and Russia lost a potential future base and the global order lost its illusion of parity with the United States. The capture of Maduro, though, wasn’t just about shutting down what Trump is alleging is a Cartel state, it was about getting information about Maduro’s connections to the Dominion voting machines involved in counting the ballots for the 2020 election.

News of the FBI’s investigation into Fulton County Georgia’s 2020 election ballots legitimizes those claims. Since Maduro’s capture, the U.S. has received greater cooperation from the current regime, but the administration warned them recently that they need to do more or risk further punitive action.

2. DAVOS – This was our bellwether story, which you can read about on pg. 2. Davos was the official death of the global world order and a scramble for a new one that yet contains the raw power of the United States. This could push Europe towards China, which some view as a real threat to America but we view as a gift.

What is becoming more and more apparent is that the EU’s values are increasingly becoming aligned with China’s and less aligned with America’s, though the natives on the streets would far prefer American values over Chinese, or Progmerican (they’re virtually the same at this point) values.

3. CHINA – Chairman Xi has his hands full at home as conflicting reports overall suggest China’s leader has barely survived, so far, an ongoing coup attempt. He is doing so by eviscerating his top experts, including military experts, which are causing many to question the real power of China in its current state.

His second in command, Zhang Youxia, was the leader of the coup, but was captured and arrested. He hasn’t been killed yet because his father was one of the founders of the People’s Liberation Army and he is the ONLY General in the Chinese military that has EVER seen combat. He is a national treasure. Experts within China suggest he is far more popular than Xi, so simply disappearing him would be a risky move.

Even as Xi struggles at home, he continues to aggressively work against American interests, pressuring nations to continue to rely on the Old World Order, international law defined by the United Nations, a plea Europeans might be tempted to listen to, but one that further makes America’s point about how useless it has become to American interests.

If they do, this will only help America in the long-term, should Europe rise as a rival to her power. China will be to Europe what the Ottoman Empire was to the allies in World War Two, an albatross draining resources and offering little to nothing in return.

4. IRAN – What started as a hope for the end of a bloodthirsty regime has so far turned into a slaughter that tops 30,000 dead. In our last issue, we covered the dilemma Trump has, having promised the protestors “help is on the way,” but so far not delivering that help.

An Armada is on the way, the Gerald R. Ford Carrier group, and Trump is offering the regime one last chance to negotiate a peace that does NOT include nuclear arms for Iran.

Should the regime fall, the source of the EXPLOSION of Islamist terror in the world would be gone. Russia and China would suffer a far greater geopolitical defeat with the loss of Iran than they did with Venezuela. Israel would find itself in a much more secure position, with her neighbors most likely being more inclined to normalize relations (without fear of terror sponsored by Iran from within their own nations).

5. SOUTH KOREA – It is becoming increasingly apparent that South Korea may be viewed as a write-off for the Trump administration. The seizure of South Korea by their Democrat Party invited the CCP into the country, with the proof coming in the form of new censorship laws.

Expect U.S. troop downsizing in South Korea soon as the President just informed South Korea, they will have to fend for themselves against all conventional threats. This could be an opportunity for the CCP or another liability, another expense that could help accelerate their demise.

It goes without saying that the end of the CCP in China would make the Democrats in South Korea vulnerable to the pushback that might come their way, a pushback a new China might help rather than hinder.

6. GAZA WAR/MIDDLE EAST – Through the Gaza Peace Deal, President Trump is hoping to start what looks increasingly like a replacement for the UN he is calling the Board of Peace. So far, many Middle East countries have joined while European ones are passing, for now. It seems there is still hope for the UN to continue (but without the U.S.) after its death was announced at Davos.

Hope for Hamas preserving power is diminishing, with even Turkey now attempting to help negotiate Hamas’ disarmament. Mahmood Abbas of the Palestinian Authority has announced Hamas would not be on the ballot.

The finality of the war was punctuated when the remains of the last Israeli hostage was returned, setting off demonstrations of grieving, relief, and celebration.

7. UK – America’s mother country, Britain, is speed-running through the same anti-human dark ideology of Progmerica’s Democrat Party, “wokeness.” But as it is doing this, while continuing to import violent men from violent countries explicitly to inflict harm on the English devil, the English are finding themselves and realizing they still overwhelmingly outnumber the invaders.

So far, though, their commitment to remaining unarmed persists despite the clear evidence that the one country infected with wokeness that has managed to beat back its onslaught had armed citizens fully comfortable with well-armed neighbors. That country, of course, is America.

Starmer appears to be doing everything he can to further antagonize the English, even cancelling local elections because he knows his party will be gutted as a result. But it’s not just cancelling elections, it’s continuing to harass, prosecute, and arrest British citizens for saying hurty words online even as he pushes to effectively make speaking against Islam a criminal offense.

One can only imagine Starmer is not aware of his country’s own history, or that Starmer imagines the English spirit is dead. Signs point to that spirit being reignited again, especially among young boys who can see for themselves how their schools teach good things about Islam and bad things about their own country.

Rather than programming them, however, the schools are saying the quiet parts out loud, at long last, and even the children are now noticing.

As they lurch into full-on totalitarianism, Starmer is also handing over London to China, betting on an alliance with China to offset his growing antagonism to the U.S. This foreign policy is wildly unpopular with the English, as is Keir Starmer. Never has a PM been more unliked than this PM since polling began. His recent trip to Beijing yielded token reductions of a few tariffs, nothing more.

B. CULTURE

The Minneapolis Church Ambush by Don Lemon and his horde of insurrectionists crossed an American cultural line that the Democrats will not be able to walk back from so easily, especially given their reaction to the violation of private worship for violent political means (and there was violence, intimidation, and the terrorizing of children).

They compared it to Jesus turning over the tables in the Temple, not realizing what they were saying, which is that they are Jesus and the temple is theirs. THAT is the authority Christ operated in, NOT the authority of violent political insurrectionists at war with America. Not only was the temple his, HE is the temple.

They continue to own this violation as their judges protect the criminals, either by refusing to charge them or giving them a cashless bail. For now, this is to their favor, but when the dust settles, we will surely revisit the left’s efforts to normalize political violence in private places of worship. Nothing symbolizes the depth of treason in Progmericans’ hearts than their gleeful support of this thuggery.

In Progmerican states, abortions are on the rise, mostly through the unborn baby murder pill that is still being sold over the counter despite numerous health risks. Another dangerous effect of allowing anyone to buy this dangerous drug is the ease with which it can be used by others to murder unborn children they don’t want by slipping the death pill in the mother’s food or drink.

Shockingly, after JUST taking power, Progmerican Virginia wants to pass an amendment to allow the murdering of unborn children up to birth.

While euthanasia’s spread to France was halted (for now), Canada continues to relax its rules on its own euthanasia laws despite increasing evidence some people are manipulating family members to kill themselves.

C. MARKET

President Trump continues to use tariffs as geopolitical tools in much the same way they were used until the 20^th century, with mixed results. On one hand, a lot of economic indicators are up, including inflation (which is down, which is an up for the economy). On the other hand, there are major layoffs coming from Amazon and UPS.

If the tariffs deliver the promised tax rebates, their popularity may be secured, and SCOTUS might have a harder time ending a program that could be shown to have powerfully positive effects for America (though the jury is still out on that).

Overall, though, signs point to an economy about to take off after a lot of first-round infrastructure work is coming online as a result of President Trump’s “Marshall Plan” for the U.S. in the form of $18 trillion in foreign investments. Even the World Bank has now taken notice and anticipates an economic acceleration.

The month ended with the finalization of the transfer of power of TikTok to primarily American interests from CCP interests. While the CCP loses its access to American data, and affecting TikTok’s algorithm, they will continue to make money they can use to fund the military they hope one day to defeat us with.

Should the CCP collapse, China’s profiting off of TikTok would most likely not be such a threat.

D. SCI-TECH

If you “Trust the Science,” you really “Trust the Ideology” says Breakthrough Institute, who claims academic journals have a strict ideological filter that allows sloppy work for the ideologically pure to get peer-reviewed. That same ideological filter blocks excellent work of the ideologically unorthodox or neutral from getting peer reviews. The findings only affirm what we could see for ourselves for decades, Progmerican “scientists” are political activists, not scientists.

The international global network may face even more challenges as “Big Social” is set to be hemmed in by parochial nationalist interests the world over, especially in growing totalitarian states like the UK (who view the free discourse of human thought as an existential threat to the power they built with the lie that the Englishman invented evil).

One great innovation done by President Trump was the insistence that America’s new AI infrastructure include power plants built right where the AI infrastructure is built. The plan is for rapid AI expansion to be fed by power outside the grid, meaning it will not be an energy tax on the land. The President has yet to address the high-water demand of AI, which is not as easy a fix as energy.

SYNTHESIS SUMMARY

Be sure to read our quarterly sitrep in our April 10, 2026, issue for our Predictive Analysis for the next quarter.

The world is only accelerating its exit from the old world and its step into the new. Even as we speak, nations are scrambling to not be left behind in the great race for AI resource control. At the heart of every enterprise, be it a microfactory or a restaurant, AI will be what separates the winners from the losers. This scales all the way up to the national level.

Davos was like a Starter Pistol to the world that the Great Race is on. The bloom of moral power is gone, replaced by killing power. For good or for ill, President Trump gave the rest of the world notice that America was beginning the race, to secure its position in the emerging world no matter the cost to others that might oppose her.

In many ways, the ICE Wars, while they present very real catastrophic outcomes that could upset what might be emerging, are the last vestiges of the old order’s power, a power now reduced to physical violence, directly, at long last, having had their moral power stripped from them in this land.

The DNC criminal media is depriving America of so much positive news, especially economic news. We are on the verge of becoming perhaps the fastest growing economy in the world while our geopolitical enemies, mainly Russia and China, are reeling from the loss of great geopolitical power in America’s hemisphere.

Overseas, we have seen the collapse of Hamas in Palestine, something normal Americans would celebrate (while not necessarily celebrating how that collapse happened), the Iranian regime tottering on the verge of collapse (which would further devastate Chinese and Russian geopolitical power). If that’s not ENOUGH GOOD NEWS, China herself potentially faces the end of the reign of the CCP.

Instead of giving Americans hope, the DNC criminal media either ignores or downplays Trump’s foreign policy victories while it barrages Americans with intentional lies designed to trigger violent action against Federal law enforcers. It holds back America’s hope while lying about its law enforcers.

Yet, even with that barrage of violent and seditious agit prop by the DNC criminal media, Americans support ICE action by a 10-point margin, a margin that surely would be 30 or more if Americans had a free corporate press. He also now holds a 9-point approval rating advantage among Hispanics.

The only hope the DNC has is its criminal press, which seems to be aggressively attempting to incite a violent civil war. At this point, though, Americans have already figured out Progressives have always wanted them dead, jailed, or economically boycotted.

What the media does not understand, what leftists do NOT understand is Americans are done with progressives. Americans are convinced they will never allow them to live in peace as Americans, that they will always riot, that they will always assassinate, that they will always seek to use authority to oppress dissent. When they cry for American Rule of Law, Americans have no real sympathy for them anymore, since they spent the last decade aggressively trying to destroy it.

You cancelled Americans. These Americans lost careers, college degrees, and fun places to hang out. You’ve been brutalizing Americans for years, and now, Americans view you as enemy combatants, not Americans, not citizens. A criminal in the process of executing a crime has no rights until he or she is detained.

Americans don’t care if ICE “violates” your rights because they view you as outlaws, insurrectionists in active war against Americans, with your intended goal of killing every American you can.

Right now, the DNC criminal media is keeping the emerging booming American economy from Americans. While this booming economy may allegedly be in the mail, it hasn’t arrived in our mailboxes yet, though signs point to that happening soon.

We will be watching the emerging 2020 Election Investigation revitalization, Iran, and China first and foremost in the coming month, as all three could fundamentally alter, once again, the geopolitical landscape in the coming weeks ahead.

Our next sitrep will be published in the February 27, 2026, issue of MIA.