The American way of life goes MAGA:
More power to the President to make America great again
According to President Trump, America has allowed itself to be duped, deceived, and exploited by foreign powers and individuals – always in connection with its higher-value obligations and fabricated necessities which the country has followed out of misguided considerations, miscalculations, or malicious disregard for its national interests. From the beginning, Trump has made it clear that this accusation against the establishment is aimed at more than just the individual crimes and the personnel of previous administrations who are criminally culpable for them. His criticism is aimed at the entire party landscape, the whole way of governing that has embedded the principle of weakness as a political guideline, as well as the way the people constitute themselves, including the self-image they have been drawing of themselves for far too long. As a living paradigm of successful dealmaking, i.e., dictating from the position of winner of the competition, Trump is tackling the task at hand on the home front.
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with a perfect world war scenario against China
US military strategy in the Indo-Pacific
When the American world power takes a strategic look at the globe, it identifies one region as being of outstanding importance. Republicans and Democrats are in complete agreement on this point in an otherwise deeply divided nation. The USA’s assurances about how much it belongs to the Indo-Pacific signals how much this region belongs to the USA – as its asset, without which it cannot be a world power, which is the only way the USA considers itself capable of existing. This is the spirit in which the new US Secretary of War proclaims the good news that the second Trump administration is clearly following in the footsteps of its predecessors.
“America First!” in its backyard
The first ‘problem’ that the Trump administration is pushing to resolve once and for all is the “catastrophic invasion” of migrants which it sees as an existential threat to the security of the USA arising specifically from its neighbors: It sees the masses fleeing their home countries and seeking refuge in the USA as more than just an attack on the USA’s sovereignty over its own borders. By equating migrants from the poorhouses of Central America with criminals and drug traffickers who are taking over its “communities” and poisoning its people, the caravan of misery from the south becomes a systematic attack on the American national community which the Trump team sees embodied in good, hardworking American competitors – it’s a form of terrorism against America, and the fight against it a fundamental, non-negotiable demand on the countries from which this attack originates. And so the US government is commanding the countries of origin not only to “stop” the ‘flow’ of migrants, i.e., use force to prevent their citizens from heading to the US so that they remain in the ‘shitholes’ where they belong, but demanding they “reverse” it, i.e., bring back all those who made it to the US and who the US government now refuses to tolerate ...
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Trump’s 12-day war in the Middle East
On June 2025, the time has come – the world gets to witness a double premiere: For the first time ever, the Iranian nuclear program, long contested by the West and its Middle Eastern outposts, becomes the target of an open air war by the Israeli Air Force; and for the first time, Trump orders the long threatened deployment of the US Air Force directly against the Islamic Republic in case the nuclear diplomacy he has initiated with the Iranian leadership fails.
From “finally!” to “oh my God, oh my God!”, the usual commentaries are delivered by the usual parties, and after the deed is done, the usual experts get to express their unconditional satisfaction with its military-technical quality and weigh a few problematic aspects of its international legal dimensions. Trump celebrates his military, i.e. himself, in his familiar way, and his great victory can’t be denied even by those who begrudge him his success and so are once again seeking and finding some flies in an essentially delectable ointment.
What remains somewhat overlooked is the real progress made in terms of Trump’s programmatic realignment of American foreign policy, i.e., the world according to America’s newly defined interests and imperatives – and the accompanying lesson about the beautiful thing called peace in America’s world.
Trump calls off the Ukraine war –
Europe sticks to its policy of incompatibility with Russia
Ending the Ukraine War is high on Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda. On the campaign trail, he already promised to immediately end it, within one day, and with him in power, it wouldn’t have started in the first place. The interesting thing about the first statement is his political judgment on the war. Trump doesn’t mean that the job America undertook under his predecessor has been adequately completed and can therefore be ended. He considers America’s involvement there over the past three years to be utterly wrong. Therefore, the second statement doesn’t mean to say that America’s deterrent power against its main enemy has failed in Ukraine, but clarifies: Under Biden’s presidency the warring parties there failed to show their respect for America as the force for peace. And even more: Trump’s predecessor steered his country into a war that wasn’t America's concern from the start. Three years of war without any tangible progress, especially without any apparent benefit for America, but instead a damage caused by squandering beautiful US weapons and billions of dollars, are proof of this. Under Biden, America allowed itself to be embroiled in and exploited for an enterprise that is none of the world power’s business. So Trump isn’t giving up on the war, let alone conceding defeat.