The thing about watching a superpower decline in real time is that it is not dramatic.
People expect drama.
The fall of the Berlin Wall. The helicopter leaving Saigon. A moment.
Decline is not a moment.
It is Walmart shelves that were stocked with Chinese manufacturing for so long that when the tariffs came there was no American factory to replace the supply chain because the factory closed in 1987 and the people who worked there are in their seventies.
It is allies who say the right things in the communiqué and then go home and make other arrangements.
It is a currency that is still dominant but whose dominance is for the first time in eighty years a subject of active international planning to reduce.
It is a military that has not won a major war since 1945 but whose budget keeps growing because the budget is not about winning wars, it is about the domestic economy of the congressional districts where the weapons are built.
It is a political class so consumed by the internal contradictions the empire generates at home, the inequality, the racial reckoning, the infrastructure crisis, the opioid epidemic, the debt, that it cannot maintain the sustained attention that running the world actually requires.
It is slow. It is administrative.
It is the texture of daily life changing at a pace that is visible only in retrospect.
And in the middle of it, making it loud and visible and impossible to ignore, is Trump.
The decline did not produce him.
The decline is him.
BREAKING: Donald Trump has earned more money during the first two years of his second term as president ($4.2 billion) than he did in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.
🚨🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israeli settlers are BURNING DOWN the village of Al-Naqoura in the West Bank, setting Christian family homes on fire.
Is this supposed to be America’s great ally?
NEW: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. is running so low on interceptors that the military is forced to pick and choose which targets get hit by Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, per NBC News
Over the weekend, U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine warned President Trump that interceptor stockpiles in the Middle East are running dangerously low.
This led him to order a temporary suspension of operations against Iran for the time being.
Iran’s missile stockpile also astonished American strategists and military planners, who had falsely assumed that it would run out of launch capacity within a few weeks to months.
Not only does Iran still have large amounts of missiles and drones, these projectiles are becoming increasingly lethal due to adaptation of targeting data and satellite feeds provided by allies.
This forced Trump to ask resuming the negotiations.
Trump’s Iran War Delusion Exposed: Ignoring the Failure of the First 40 Days of Bombing, Trump Tries AGAIN to Force Open the Strait ⚠️
Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) lays out exactly how dangerous that has become:
“There’s nothing we can do to open the strait militarily — that is the reality.” Yet Trump only accepts that truth on days when he is, as Barnes puts it, “mentally sober.”
He explains how Trump understood the severe economic, energy, and geopolitical risks when he signed the MOU — but then “keeps relapsing back into delusional Donald” after listening to Fox News generals and media cheerleaders.
Barnes details how Trump convinces himself that escalation will magically produce good outcomes: “The good thing is absolutely going to happen. The bad thing’s not going to happen.”
Meanwhile, CENTCOM has “not been forthcoming” about casualties, and Barnes warns the real number of wounded may exceed a thousand — including contractors not counted in official tallies.
He argues this is an unnecessary, counterproductive war enabled by a cabinet that won’t push back: “All you have are cowards for the most part other than Vance and Colby.”
Watch the full clip — this moment in U.S. strategy and the Middle East conflict demands clarity, not delusion. ▶️ https://t.co/1lZmryK3OQ
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I'm sorry, I am running with the working hypothesis that the DNC's money troubles are somehow related to the crackdown on fraud and money laundering.
Prove me wrong.
BREAKING 🚨: President Trump & Gov. DeSantis confirm Florida will deputize National Guardsmen as immigration judges
Instead of waiting 3 years for a deportation decision, it will be made in less than 3 days at Alligator Alcatraz
Every Red state needs to follow suit
The US Navy's blockade of Iranian oil is set to disrupt global shipping, upsetting China who depends on the region's supply. Beijing is demanding safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. #Geopolitics#Oil#China
“It’s probably one of the worst decisions ever made in the history of modern medicine.”
Senator Rand Paul says Anthony Fauci’s support for gain of function research put the world at risk.
“Anthony Fauci's concluded that… even if a pandemic should occur, the knowledge is worth the risk.”
“This is the hubris, this is the arrogance of a man who said he was the science.”
“We have never discovered a vaccine… we’ve never discovered any kind of treatment from Gain-of-Function.”
“It’s a terrible idea.”
“You create a monster.”
“It was an abomination.”
“It was an abysmal idea.”
“The world should know Anthony Fauci approved of this and still approves of it.”
@SenRandPaul@greta
Karl Marx never talked about skills. For him, all labor is worth the same.
But you see, of the 11 players in a football team, there’s only one Messi. His productivity and value are way higher than others.
Socialism is for dummies.