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“A smaller sailboat may spin around in the water, but it may rise up again after a few turns, but if the Titanic is going to sink, it will sink.”
—Xi Jinping

Everything—absolutely everything—that Trump does is wrong. Dangerously wrong. And probably—fatal.
Under his leadership, the United States is like the Titanic. And as comrade Xi says: once the Titanic starts sinking, it sinks.

The attempts to find some kind of strategy in Trump’s actions are not just comical—they are downright pathetic.
Trump is a threat to the very existence of the United States. The U.S. can (still) escape from Trump’s madness, but the price will be colossal.

For a long time now (long—not as in a few years, but at least a decade), I’ve been writing that the geopolitical model established after the Cold War—with one single superpower, the U.S.—is doomed. Its preservation is a matter of time, and that time is running out.

When we speculate about what configuration this unipolar model might transform into, one thing has always seemed simple and logical:

—If it’s no longer unipolar, then whatever else the new model might be, it must include at least one additional pole.
In other words, the question is about the *second pole*. Without a second pole, there can be no bipolar, tripolar, or multipolar model.

And that second pole has almost always been thought to be China.
Yes, there have been debates—*can* China become a second pole in the relatively near future, and *does* it want to be?
Also, no matter what other models are analyzed, it’s always been tacitly assumed that the U.S. would remain one of the poles.

But then—
The Black Swan with the orange hairdo in the White House blew up all the analyses with his erratic and absurd behavior.

Because it is now quite possible that the transition away from a unipolar model will lead to... another unipolar model—with *China* as the *only* pole.
Or to a new model *without the United States* at all!

If the U.S. continues to flail about in the sea of uncertainty and risk, captained by a Trump high on madness and senility, they may not only lose their position as *the* pole—but their status as *any* pole at all.

We are witnessing the beginning of a terrifying, dizzying process in which the U.S. is withdrawing—suddenly and shockingly—from its unique role in the system of international security.
It’s simply unimaginable.
Stunning. Crushing.
And endlessly dangerous for the U.S.—because previous empires, as they retreated from their grandeur, did so gradually. Their geopolitical role shrank, their twilight was foreseen, and they were at least *somewhat* psychologically prepared for this fate.

The U.S., by contrast, is undergoing a *shock* process of global decline.
They were not expecting it.
They are not ready.
They have no immunity, no psychological buffer, no protective reflex.

—The U.S. might lose its greatest financial advantage—the dollar as the world’s main currency.
—The U.S. might lose its most powerful political-military alliance—NATO.
—The U.S. might lose its strongest and most loyal strategic partner—Europe.
—The U.S. might lose its most effective tool of influence and appeal—*soft power*, the trust, admiration, and respect it once commanded around the world.

Without all of this, the U.S. becomes merely *half* a nation, *half* a continent, *half* a partner, *half* a hope.
In other words: a big fat *nothing and a half*.

And since power abhors a vacuum, China may step in as the only global leader.
Or we may see new and unlikely coalitions form—to protect themselves *from* toxic America.

—*I believe* in the need to build a stable Global West—Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand...
This would give us two Wests:
**The Global West** (the West *without* the U.S.)
and **The Wild West** (the U.S. *without* the West).

—*I have no doubt* that Europe, as part of this Global West, must build its own defense mechanism—a European Security and Defense Alliance.

History shows no mercy to fallen giants.
It feasts upon their remains.

The U.S. has very little time before becoming one of those fallen giants. Maybe a year or two, maybe just three or four months.
Everything depends on them.

If they allow the Madman in the White House to continue his lunacy, then all 250 years of American existence will have gone to waste.
If Trump continues rampaging with the motto “a madman never tires,” then woe to America!

Mark my words—no one will shed a tear for them.

The U.S. can only *be* the U.S. if it remains an exceptional nation and a democratic society.
Otherwise, it will become an *excluded* country—cut off, quarantined, a leper.
Maybe only Putin and "the rest" will stick by them.
But even that is no longer certain.

And to be honest, I’m starting to feel I won’t even *miss* the U.S. when it’s gone.

How can you mourn a nation that committed *ritual suicide* by putting a deranged man in the White House?

Trump—this deadly clot in the brain of America...

April 17, 2025