President Trump blamed the prior administration’s evacuation system for letting Rahmanullah Lakanwal into the country before Lakanwal was charged with shooting two National Guard members, which led him to reject any defense of that system and strip autopen-signed orders of legitimacy. That action threw agencies into immediate uncertainty at the same time Germany’s towns like Overath and Kerpen were cancelling Christmas markets because metal barriers, bag checks and surveillance required after Islamic and foreign attacks made the events impossible to fund. All three crises showed systems collapsing under past failures and forced leaders to confront security, authority and public safety all at once.