It is essential to understand what position the United States of America, as a superpower, occupies in the contemporary world and what the inherent consequences are.
It was anticipated that Trump’s second term at the helm of the great North American nation would be even worse than the previous one. But what has been happening goes beyond the most pessimistic predictions.
One can speculate what reasons led to this. Maybe four will prevail. The vertigo that sometimes affects second and last terms (we’ll see…), older age, the worsening of a very worrying mental, physical and psychological condition that is incompatible with the position and also an exuberant ignorance.
You can classify Trump with almost everything bad. The same can be said about the trio that gravitates around him (Vance, Rubio and Hegseth). But this is more or less irrelevant, except to highlight that, for now and thinking about the succession, Vance and Rubio, who are “pear of the same feather”, seek to wear “sheep’s skins”, which can only deceive those who want to be deceived and that Hegseth, the character who transformed Defense into War, is unqualified in all aspects. So unqualified that it would only be caricatured and ridiculous if it weren’t serious and depressing.
What is certain and relevant is that these four characters, with a natural emphasis on Trump, transformed America not into “great again”, but rather in a global actor deserving of all distrust, to which must be added, on the domestic level, the economic and employment decline, the expansion of poverty, the rupture of social policies, the attempt to instrumentalize the Justice and the Federal Bank, in addition to the unimaginable violence and inhumanity perpetrated on would-be illegal immigrants, including children.
The crux of the current global crisis is that it is not possible to be materially a superpower and, at the same time, a political, economic and social pariah. A superpower cannot be a global disruptor.
It is not clear who in the world today respects and trusts the USA. There are naturally those who try to take advantage of what is going on in Washington, but in this group you only find autocracies with more perceptive leadership than the North American one, which, let’s face it, is not difficult.
Trump brought NATO to its worst situation. In NATO today there is no political guidance, at the same time that its heavy diplomatic, military and administrative bureaucracies continue to pretend that nothing is happening and that Secretary General Rutte exaggerates his powers and strives to pay incomprehensible allegiance to Trump.
Under Trump, the transatlantic relationship, at least for now, has transitioned into the domain of faith and the idea of the West has faded. The only sensible thing to do in NATO, in order to preserve its exceptional legacy and enhance it for the future, is to do little or nothing and wait for the crisis to pass. Any other attitude carries the risk of rupture and collapse.
With Trump, China takes the opportunity to accelerate its upward march, at the same time that it seeks to fill all the voids resulting from the North American and European retraction, and represents itself as a representative of the so-called Global South. First within the BRICS.
With Trump, Russia finds more arguments to imagine itself as a great power.
With Trump, Europe gains a strong conviction that it needs to assert its strategic sovereignty, even if, for now, it remains entangled in a poor web of inertia and its internal divisions. What we have to hope is that it will be overcome positively and quickly.
With Trump, the USA has a president who, like all weaklings, is quick to mock others (Biden, Obama, Zelensky, Sanae Takaichi, Macron, …), but who is fodder for all the jokes in all parts of the world, in the media and on social networks, which he believes he dominates.
Great again???
For me, I hope that the USA returns to being the Nation that I learned to respect and admire.
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