Pierre Bouillon

J'ai été, plus de 30 ans, journaliste et réalisateur (télévision) à Radio-Canada. J'aime la photographie, les livres anciens et les valeurs libérales.

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Les États Unis ont obtenu la réouverture d’un détroit qui était ouvert avant leur attaque. Rien de plus. Sur le nucléaire, apparemment moins que l’accord de 2015 qu’ils ont dénoncé en 2018. Un fiasco total.

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@kajakallas EU Foreign Ministers should be very bold. Ukraine needs swords more than words.

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We have witnessed the fall of the United States as a global hegemon — a former hegemon. This is not a temporary weakening, but a systemic and possibly irreversible decline. The main reason for this process is Donald Trump, the weakest president in American history.

Trump is not merely a bad president. He is a president who is consciously and consistently dismantling everything that made America a hegemon for eight decades. Instead of strategic vision and cold calculation, we see chaotic emotional decisions, the trading of national interests like at a bazaar, and a constant readiness to betray allies for short-term political gain or personal ego.

Under his leadership, the United States has ceased to be a reliable guarantor of the world order. Former allies no longer trust American commitments. NATO is on the brink of collapse because its leading country openly disregards its obligations. Ukraine, which is fighting the largest war in Europe since World War II, has effectively been betrayed. Taiwan understands that in the event of Chinese aggression, it may simply be abandoned. Europe no longer sees Washington as a leader, but as an unpredictable partner best kept at a distance.

Trump is not building a new, stronger America. He is destroying the old one — the one built on military superiority, the financial dominance of the dollar, technological advantage, and a system of alliances. He is weakening all of these simultaneously. Military aid to Ukraine has been slashed, pressure on Europe regarding defense spending has turned into outright blackmail, and relations with China are not strategic containment but chaotic bargaining. Even traditional Republican elites, who once considered a strong America their core ideology, are now forced to adapt to a cult of personality and isolationist sentiments.

Trump’s weakness is not just a lack of character. It is profound strategic blindness. He fails to understand that hegemony is not only power, but also responsibility and reputation — a reputation he has destroyed in record time. The world has seen that American commitments can be canceled with a single tweet or phone call. This lesson has already been learned in Beijing, Moscow, Tehran, and Pyongyang.

We are now observing a chain reaction. Authoritarian regimes sense weakness and are acting more aggressively. China is accelerating preparations for Taiwan. Russia is not stopping in Ukraine. Iran continues to destabilize the Middle East. And Europe, instead of rapidly rearming, is still hiding behind the backs of Ukrainian soldiers, hoping that “somehow it will pass.”

The fall of American hegemony under Trump is not the triumph of a multipolar world, as some like to claim. It is the triumph of weakness, selfishness, and shortsightedness. A world in which the most powerful country refuses to lead becomes far more dangerous for everyone. Because a vacuum of power is always filled by chaos and aggression.

The worst part is that this process may become irreversible. Even if Trump eventually leaves, America’s reputation has already been severely damaged. The trust lost in these years will be extremely difficult to restore. Global elites have already begun searching for alternative centers of power — and these will not always be democratic and predictable players.

Trump will go down in history not as a strong leader who “made America great again.” He will be remembered as the president under whom America voluntarily renounced its global role. As the man who accelerated the end of the American century. As the weakest president of all time, who managed to undermine the most powerful state in the world from within.

History will render its verdict. But it is already clear: we are living in the era of the fall of a former hegemon. And his name is Donald Trump.

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