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The United States once held an exceptionally important and unique leading role in the international security system, because it rested on four geostrategic, geopolitical, geoeconomic, and geocivilizational pillars:
1. The U.S. was a global power — its actions had global scope, and practically the entire world was within its zone of responsibility.
2. The U.S. was allied with Europe and several other developed nations of the global West — notably Canada, Japan, Australia, and South Korea.
3. The U.S. was a democratic state, and behind its actions always stood the reason (and justification) that it was defending democracy in various regions of the world.
4. The U.S. was “armed” with astonishing soft power — the power of values and principles, of massive financial aid for constructive and noble purposes, and of the irresistible appeal of its remarkable democratic structure.
Now, the evil named Trump is systematically dismantling all four of these vital pillars of American dominance — of the indispensable role of the United States in the world.
And the U.S. can be truly itself only if it rests on those foundational four pillars.

My conclusions are:
1. The United States will shrink down to, at best, a regional power — a pseudo-global power with a hollow shell and elements of caricature.
2. The U.S. will lose the essence, the meaning, and the very content of its existence, and this will threaten its own integrity.
(Long ago, some 50 years back, a friend from Kharkiv — for whom I now constantly worry because he's under Russian bombs — once joked that in America there would eventually be a “reduction of the States” [“сокращение штатов”* in Russian — an untranslatable pun that plays on the double meaning of “state” as both a U.S. State and a staffing position in a company]. I now fear that, one day, my friend may prove to have been right.*)
3. The U.S. will lose many of its friendly nations around the world, and Samuel Huntington’s notion of “the lonely superpower” will materialize — ever more lonely, and ever less a superpower.
(I am particularly worried about Israel — its escalating flirtation with Trump and Trump’s America bodes ill for that country.)
4. The U.S. will face a terrifying wave of anti-Americanism — largely due to a grotesque, openly biased reinterpretation and reassessment of its actions over the past 80 years.
There will be fierce accusations of imperial cynicism, mass killings of tens or even hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, support for brutal and despotic regimes, suppression of popular uprisings, egregious double standards, coups and assassinations of political leaders.
I'm not saying that all these accusations will be fair — but for a country that once was a democratic global superpower and has now lost the world's respect, the danger is inevitable: many nations will find plenty of reasons to hate it.
(Just like after a bitter divorce, one party suddenly sees the entire shared life in dark and distorted colors, reinterpreting everything in their favor and removing all blame from themselves for the death of the love and the collapse of the marriage.)
In short, Trump is the destroyer, the gravedigger of America. He is far too dangerous for the American people not to understand him.
And if they do understand him — then it is utterly idiotic not to take serious steps to stop him.
This way, the United States is performing a horrifyingly frivolous and incomprehensibly light-minded ritual suicide.

March 23, 2025