The United States suicide 04/15/25

Por: Joschka Fischer*

Berlin. – only two and a half months have passed since Donald Trump returned to the White House, but the world has already changed radically.

Trump weakens all the trade relations of the United States and the global free trade system that helped establish it after 1945. His attempt to “liberate” the American economy is to escalate the definitions a fundamental change in the tactics of the most modest trade war used in its first league. According to Yale’s budget laboratory, Central America’s tariff today is at its highest levels since 1909.

In addition, Trump cultivates doubts about the old alliances in the United States, especially NATO, with the security guarantees he represents. At the end of February, Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinsky at the Oval Office humiliated it and then threw it from the White House. Since then, American support for Ukraine has actually ended, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has ended in his best work in years. Trump did not make any effort to hide sympathy for Russia, the aggressor, more than Ukraine, the besieged democracy that fights for its freedom and sovereignty.

Trump also suggested that the United States should control Gaza, expel its population into other Arab countries and turn the pocket into a tourist center. He still talks about the inclusion of Canada, Greenland and Panama. Apparently, the United States controls most of the western hemisphere not enough: Trump also wants to possess it.

Although everyone expected a turbulent period, a few of them expected shameful imperialism. Experts and commentators used to explain the slogan “The United States First” as a new birth of the isolation movement that was active before World War II; But Trump seems to have something else in mind. He wants a world in which a handful of great powers (violently if necessary) compete for resources, raw materials and effects of influence.

On the internal front, Elon Musk was allowed, the richest man in the world and the leader of Avant -Garde for a fascist movement based on the silicon Valley, the dismantling of the state structures on the pretext of reducing costs, eliminating waste, fraud and liberation. Collective demobilization and demolition of the entire agencies will have permanent consequences that hurt me to imagine. Only hundreds of thousands of deaths in Africa and other weak regions can cause only hundreds of thousands of deaths in Africa and other weak areas.

In the face of such harsh and free destruction, we must ask ourselves a basic question: What does all this contribute to in the United States? Will it make it stronger? If the new government decisions are strictly evaluated in light of the interests of the United States (preserving its global strength and impact), the only possible response is “no”. Trump’s (interior and international) policies seem to be increasingly directed to weakening or even destroying the United States.

After all, hostility towards Europe does not report any benefit to the American Union. Malquisto with his allies is destroyed by one of the main pillars of the superpower. “The West” (a geopolitical system of military alliances and trade relations as there was anything else) was for double contracts for the power and influence of the United States. She allowed him to easily win the Cold War and become stronger than any other power in history. Who benefits all of this through the window? Russia and China only, who notice and wait for silence, while the European Union committed suicide.

It is already clear that there will be no return to the previous international order. Trump has destroyed confidence in the United States for a period of no less than a generation. American obligations are no longer credible. Its institutions (including large media, universities and legal studies) collapse in front of our eyes. The European Union will continue to enjoy its unique geographical location between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, but the rest of the world will know that Trump has become a permanent aspect of its policy.

The disappearance of the “West” and the collapse of the US leadership (and its democracy) will change global politics in the twenty -first century. This will give way to chaos, and the risk of war will increase alongside competition between the competing great powers. American society will continue to polarize, consume rationalism and vulnerable to conspiracy theories.

In his novel 1935, It cannot happen hereSenkler Lewis imagines the rise of a dictator and a mirror of fascist and Nazi systems in Europe. After ninety years, his hardship is fulfilled. Like Goethe, after the Battle of Valmi, in 1792, when the Bruz army retired to the French revolutionary forces, we are witnessing the beginning of a new era in the history of the world. From now on, pain, difficulties and injustice will be worse.

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*Former Foreign Minister and Vice President of Germany between 1998 and 2005