It gets much more complicated for a Torah Jew. The people in charge may think that they can act with impunity, but we believe differently. We believe in God, that He runs the entire show at all times, and that no one has any power but Him (Chullin 7a). No one can help us if God doesn’t want them to, and no one can harm us if He doesn’t want us to be harmed. So, it really doesn’t make a difference in the end if the whole thing is one big conspiracy against mankind. At the end of the day, God is doing it all and just using the appropriate people to be the villains and the good guys.
The only scary part is how many people have to suffer along the way to the final positive outcome. The Nazis tried to destroy the Jewish people and failed, but not without first ruthlessly murdering six million Jews. The Arabs have tried repeatedly to destroy the State of Israel and have failed, but not without first causing so many deaths and so much suffering along the way. The War of Gog and Magog is destined to champion the good guys and dispense with the bad ones forever. But what kind of death and destruction will occur before that happens?
Bitachon and emunah—trust and faith in God—says it really doesn’t matter what we do if we’re doing the right thing by Torah. The rest of the world has to worry about nature. The Jewish people only have to worry about Hashgochah Pratis—Divine Providence. The water that was blood for the Egyptians was drinking water for the Jews. What might might be dangerous, naturally-speaking, for someone without bitachon and emumah will be harmless for someone with them.
The key words here are “right thing.” Where do you even look for that? That’s another great question these days. The answer is supposed to be our Torah leaders. But the ones we trusted the most until now are old and it is difficult to ascertain how much they’re really in the loop. Others are clearly in it, but disagree with one another about the proper course of action. For many today, the ship fears captainless.
Others have never really trusted the Gedolim with their lives anyhow. They’re more immersed in the modern world than the older one of trust the Gadol. So when they hear reports emanating from a Gadol that does not sit right with their personal assessment of the situation, they distance themselves even more from that world, further isolating them from the only world they really identify with.
Not easy at all.