Trajectory of the United States

Since Donald Trump's second inauguration, various news outlets in the nation have been fearmongering about Trump's presidential power (though conveniently forgetting Joe Biden himself used his power to back a genocide and put an Eastern European nation in a meat grinder to "wear down" a cold war enemy, but I digress) while supporting Trump's continuation of an "American first" foreign policy. All of this is done while inflation continues to rise as capitalists in the US continue to try and squeeze out as much profit as possible in a short amount of time. Why?

The simple answer is that United States is a dying empire, no longer seeing as many super profits as it did in its post-war heyday of the 1940s and 1950s. During this period, the United States gained profits from a war-torn Europe now under its heel with NATO and the EU, as well as colonies such as Puerto Rico, Cuba (until its revolution), Korea and Japan, and this is not including the various coups in South America to install puppet dictators like Pinochet. Donald Trump himself is a symptom of a decaying empire; his focus on finance over ideology indicates a focus on profits over maintaining the soft power built up in the post-war period. Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is the proof in the pudding of a "profits and hard power over soft power" turn, choosing to both eliminate USAID, which funded US propaganda around the world that would aid color revolutions, and eliminating any words Musk himself assumes are "DEI" a.k.a. words he finds too "liberal".

Objectively, Musk's failed attempts at making a "less woke" government have worked in favor of socialists simply due to exposing a couple of CIA black sites, sites no longer blacked out for having the word "black" in them. USAID being cancelled is objectively good as well, removing the United State's fingers from various pies in nations that, had Kamala been elected, may have ended up being crushed by the empire for super profits. Trump's moves to ally with Russia, meant to dissuade China from pursuing deeper relationships with the nation, also aim to expand on profits. By forcing Zelenskyy to the negotiation table, Trump is attempting to secure meager returns on a war that had two outcomes that would ruin Ukraine, either through removing the limited amount of precious mineral deposits or through a forever war that would attempt to wear down Russia as it destroyed Ukraine. That war and the Euromaidan coup were never about "freeing" Ukraine as the United States' press said, but instead to wear down a nation it saw as the enemy to keep its imperial power in Europe.

As for Palestine, Trump's agreement for a ceasefire in Gaza is another of profit, but personal rather than for the US. By "aiding" Gaza through rebuilding, he is able to build more hotels, making it a tourist colony under his thumb. Granted, this likely will not happen. What may happen is that Trump will allow the IOF to focus its assault on the West Bank instead. During his first presidency, by declaring Jerusalem the capitol of the settle colony known as "Israel", he effectively declared to the world he did not recognize Palestine and supported the fascist ideology of Zionism. This, too, for imperial profits, as Israel is a joint colony of the US and the UK using a white supremacist system to genocide Palestinians and allow Jewish settlers to play "Cowboys" in the SWANA region while US private companies set up shop and siphon the crude oil to ship off and sell at a cheap price back home.

All of this is done though, as China continues to grow. The US and western Europe's support of a genocide has shown the world that the imperial core will continue to back colonialism, racism, war, plunder and fascism, all of which built these nations themselves. Donald Trump is not a "unique evil"; he is nothing more than an agent of liberalism, attempting to drain profits from other nations to sustain the United States. At the very least, US imperial power is waning. The "Police of the World" will be no more soon. Now is the Chinese century, one that may herald the death of a violent empire that has been the cause of countless genocides in the name of profit.