I do believe history is under divine control and following a divine plan and timetable. Personally, I can worship whether olives are on the branches and horses are in the stalls or not. But there is alot more human suffering with the latter. I was under the impression that human suffering was a concern to you.
And the reason history repeats itself is because men in want cry out to God. God, who is merciful, condescends to men and draws near and brings great blessing. But men who have provision forget the kindness and goodness of God. Eventually, a generation will arise that knows not the Lord. They don't walk in His ways and lose His presence and blessing. In time, things will get bad enough for men to cry out to the Lord again.
We seem to be in a time when things are becoming progressively worse. Good time for prayer and revival.
And the reason history repeats itself is because men in want cry out to God. God, who is merciful, condescends to men and draws near and brings great blessing. But men who have provision forget the kindness and goodness of God. Eventually, a generation will arise that knows not the Lord. They don't walk in His ways and lose His presence and blessing. In time, things will get bad enough for men to cry out to the Lord again.
We seem to be in a time when things are becoming progressively worse. Good time for prayer and revival.
So, the only thing you can do about human suffering is try to sacrifice your personal time or money to minimize suffering on a one-to-one scale. That's the only thing you can do about that. No politics are going to fix human suffering on a large scale.
I think USA and Europe are pretty good at minimizing human suffering so i appreciate that, but it can never be perfect.
And the cycle that you mentioned where people will cry to God in large numbers is something that has repeated itself many times.
The perfection that we may both want is impossible in this fallen condition. Even at work people cannot do simple tasks and there are no consequences or accountability. So things always have to get to a tipping point before people do something. This is why history repeats itself.
The French revolution began with the mix of overtaxed population (increased day to day suffering with food etc) and an out-of-touch monarchy. So that was the tipping point.
So try to see things on a larger scale before you say Trump vs Biden.