In the United States we are experiencing a government shutdown that is primarily affecting certain government employees, who are mostly Democrats, according to The Donald-In-Chief. The reason for the shutdown is The Donald’s insistence that he receive funding for The Wall that Mexico was going to pay to build. The Donald wants $5 billion and not in cryptocoin.

Let’s contrast the $5 billion requested by The Donald to the money needed to put in  place a tsunami warning system in Indonesia. According to an October story by the Associated Press, Indonesian government officials reluctantly agreed to spend a negligible $69,000, on a preliminary model, which was created with a $3 million expenditure from the U.S. National Science Foundation. That model has early detection buoys that do not work, has reportedly been vandalized, and should have been used as a prop in Kevin Costner’s all-wet opus, Waterworld.

Only days ago, a tsunami inundated coastal towns surrounding the Sunda Strait and between the islands of Sumatra and Java. 424 people are reported dead. 150 people remain missing. And 16,000 have been forced from their homes.

The cause of the tsunami was an explosion by an underwater volcano, Anak Krakatau, which triggered underwater landslides creating the tsumani on Saturday. In October, 833 people were killed by a tsunami spurred by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake that ravaged the Indonesian cities of Palu and Donggala in central Sulawesi.

The current technology employed by Indonesia cannot detect tsunamis caused by volcanic explosions or underwater landslides. It is only effective in detecting tsunamis created by earthquakes.

Now, why am I connecting the devastating effects of a tsunami located halfway around the world to our own seemingly every-other-year government shutdown?

Because the United States has the ability to throw walking-around money at Indonesia’s troubled tsunami detection system and to guarantee that a serviceable early detection system will be in place next year. The present administration could trumpet the global munificence  of the Donald, future lives could be saved in Indonesia, and The Donald would be one-step closer to a Nobel Peace Prize that he covets like another Eastern European bride.

I know – it’s not a wall. It won’t prevent hordes of brown people, from attempting to illegally migrate to the United States, in caravans funded and orchestrated by George Soros. (George Soros sure has his fingers in every pot, doesn’t he? For an octogenarian creeping up on 90, Soros still has mad game. )

Let’s help the Indonesians build something that could potentially save thousands of lives and secure for the The Donald the Nobel Peace Prize that he so richly deserves.