Convicted Felon Trump’s latest Oval Office debacle wasn’t just another stain on his presidency. This was another instance of America, under Trump’s small and trembling hands, methodically dismantling its own leadership role and placing the crown in Beijing’s outstretched fingers.
Never before has a nation so willingly, so eagerly, so idio…
Convicted Felon Trump’s latest Oval Office debacle wasn’t just another stain on his presidency. This was another instance of America, under Trump’s small and trembling hands, methodically dismantling its own leadership role and placing the crown in Beijing’s outstretched fingers.
Never before has a nation so willingly, so eagerly, so idiotically paved the way for its own irrelevance. Trump is not simply appeasing Putin—he is performing a geopolitical euthanasia on the United States itself. He is ensuring that when the dust settles, America may still be feared, but it will no longer be respected or needed on the global stage. The power vacuum left in our wake is already being filled.
While Trump stumbles from one foreign policy disaster to the next, China is moving with precision. Every time Trump snubs NATO, China secures another military outpost in the South China Sea. Every time he humiliates Ukraine, China deepens its trade and infrastructure deals across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Every time he signals that America no longer honors its word, China offers itself as the new pillar of global stability. Beijing isn’t just waiting for the U.S. to crumble; it is actively ensuring that when we do, the world has already shifted to a new center of gravity.
This is not just a shift. This is succession. This is the end of American leadership—not because we were defeated, but because we chose to abdicate. As Trump dismantles America’s alliances, China is forging new ones, binding the world to its economic and political influence with the kind of long-term strategy that the U.S. once excelled at. The result? A future where Washington no longer dictates the terms of global trade, security, or diplomacy—Beijing does.
Superpowers die from the rot from within, their influence draining away like blood from an open wound. Trump is not just accelerating that process—he is gleefully watching as America’s global standing hemorrhages, oblivious to the fact that history will remember him not as a leader, but as the incompetent fool who let it all slip away. China is not conquering the world through war. It doesn’t need to. It is simply stepping into the throne that Trump is too foolish to realize he has already vacated.
The other possibility is that Trump is deliberately trying to join the Axis of Evil Dictators, because he thinks they are winners (like Putin) and he (personally) wants to be a winner like them. If his country ends up being a third world economy with nukes and oligarchs, like Russia, that may be fine with him. Of course, the working class and middle class in America (MAGA and non-MAGA) will be screwed, but I'm sure he won't care, because he thinks anyone worth less than $100 million is a loser and not worth knowing or caring about. Seth Abramson wrote a great post in Proof about the likelihood that Trump has been a Soviet/Russian asset since 1987, when he first visited the Soviet Union on the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the UN. This is attested to by 3 ex-KGB agents, independently. https://open.substack.com/pub/sethabramson/p/the-birth-of-the-trump-doctrine-lies?r=7xatk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And Congress sits on its hands and watches Trump do it. Why? Because they are afraid of the potential loss of status and power in the event Trump or Musk funds a primary challenger to take their seats. Feckless fools.
I am a Veteran of Foreign Wars. I have been a Republican. I have been a Democrat. And now I am ashamed. I don't know what else to say. I am speechless and I am sick. I am sick.
Ironically, it is Russia who may wind up being the big loser. As Trump pulls the US further away from NATO, and the Europeans step up their defense spending and alliance network, Putin may soon find himself virtually surrounded by well armed, motivated, and united adversaries. In that case, Ukraine could wind up being the least of Putins problems.
We will continue to be feared so long as our nuclear weapons can be assumed to function properly. Given that DOGE has already rattled the NNSA through incompetence, we are losing some of the expertise needed to keep the stockpile functional. Simultaneously, the private contractors that do much of the R&D and assembly are grappling with an aging workforce and funding shortfalls, combined with already fewer STEM graduates to be new hires (which is only going to get worse with the research funding cutbacks…). So at some point, not this year or even in the next few years, we may lose our top nuclear power status as well. Should that happen, expect that our sphere of influence will shrink smaller than the Western hemisphere, as we won’t have any soft or hard power left to counter China (Russia is on pace for continued diminishment - even with our newly friendly approach to them).
Now, these aren’t inevitable outcomes, but they are becoming more and more likely all the time. That was true at a slower pace over the last 20 years, but is increasing in rapidity now.
Indeed. Yet, humans have been concatenating ideas long before AI. Some even call it thinking! I think that people are missing the broader perspective, pretty frequently. Here the focus is on Russia, but while Russia will benefit, Russia will not lead the world in a US abdicated future. China will.
Convicted Felon Trump’s latest Oval Office debacle wasn’t just another stain on his presidency. This was another instance of America, under Trump’s small and trembling hands, methodically dismantling its own leadership role and placing the crown in Beijing’s outstretched fingers.
Never before has a nation so willingly, so eagerly, so idiotically paved the way for its own irrelevance. Trump is not simply appeasing Putin—he is performing a geopolitical euthanasia on the United States itself. He is ensuring that when the dust settles, America may still be feared, but it will no longer be respected or needed on the global stage. The power vacuum left in our wake is already being filled.
While Trump stumbles from one foreign policy disaster to the next, China is moving with precision. Every time Trump snubs NATO, China secures another military outpost in the South China Sea. Every time he humiliates Ukraine, China deepens its trade and infrastructure deals across Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Every time he signals that America no longer honors its word, China offers itself as the new pillar of global stability. Beijing isn’t just waiting for the U.S. to crumble; it is actively ensuring that when we do, the world has already shifted to a new center of gravity.
This is not just a shift. This is succession. This is the end of American leadership—not because we were defeated, but because we chose to abdicate. As Trump dismantles America’s alliances, China is forging new ones, binding the world to its economic and political influence with the kind of long-term strategy that the U.S. once excelled at. The result? A future where Washington no longer dictates the terms of global trade, security, or diplomacy—Beijing does.
Superpowers die from the rot from within, their influence draining away like blood from an open wound. Trump is not just accelerating that process—he is gleefully watching as America’s global standing hemorrhages, oblivious to the fact that history will remember him not as a leader, but as the incompetent fool who let it all slip away. China is not conquering the world through war. It doesn’t need to. It is simply stepping into the throne that Trump is too foolish to realize he has already vacated.
The other possibility is that Trump is deliberately trying to join the Axis of Evil Dictators, because he thinks they are winners (like Putin) and he (personally) wants to be a winner like them. If his country ends up being a third world economy with nukes and oligarchs, like Russia, that may be fine with him. Of course, the working class and middle class in America (MAGA and non-MAGA) will be screwed, but I'm sure he won't care, because he thinks anyone worth less than $100 million is a loser and not worth knowing or caring about. Seth Abramson wrote a great post in Proof about the likelihood that Trump has been a Soviet/Russian asset since 1987, when he first visited the Soviet Union on the invitation of the Soviet ambassador to the UN. This is attested to by 3 ex-KGB agents, independently. https://open.substack.com/pub/sethabramson/p/the-birth-of-the-trump-doctrine-lies?r=7xatk&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
And Congress sits on its hands and watches Trump do it. Why? Because they are afraid of the potential loss of status and power in the event Trump or Musk funds a primary challenger to take their seats. Feckless fools.
I am a Veteran of Foreign Wars. I have been a Republican. I have been a Democrat. And now I am ashamed. I don't know what else to say. I am speechless and I am sick. I am sick.
Ironically, it is Russia who may wind up being the big loser. As Trump pulls the US further away from NATO, and the Europeans step up their defense spending and alliance network, Putin may soon find himself virtually surrounded by well armed, motivated, and united adversaries. In that case, Ukraine could wind up being the least of Putins problems.
We will continue to be feared so long as our nuclear weapons can be assumed to function properly. Given that DOGE has already rattled the NNSA through incompetence, we are losing some of the expertise needed to keep the stockpile functional. Simultaneously, the private contractors that do much of the R&D and assembly are grappling with an aging workforce and funding shortfalls, combined with already fewer STEM graduates to be new hires (which is only going to get worse with the research funding cutbacks…). So at some point, not this year or even in the next few years, we may lose our top nuclear power status as well. Should that happen, expect that our sphere of influence will shrink smaller than the Western hemisphere, as we won’t have any soft or hard power left to counter China (Russia is on pace for continued diminishment - even with our newly friendly approach to them).
Now, these aren’t inevitable outcomes, but they are becoming more and more likely all the time. That was true at a slower pace over the last 20 years, but is increasing in rapidity now.
"Never before has a nation so willingly, so eagerly, so idiotically paved the way for its own irrelevance."
Goddamn I wish I wrote this. Perfect.
I understand that "concatenate" is an AI term of art.
Indeed. Yet, humans have been concatenating ideas long before AI. Some even call it thinking! I think that people are missing the broader perspective, pretty frequently. Here the focus is on Russia, but while Russia will benefit, Russia will not lead the world in a US abdicated future. China will.
China right now is using AI to repress its citizens. Musk right now is using AI to dismantle our government.