Susanna Viljanen på quora:
Donald Trump means the end of the American hegemony in the world politics, the end of Pax Americana, and the decline of the USA into a second rate power and internally towards a Third World country. Since Americans are religious, mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, anyone? They can decrypt it.
First, it is blatantly obvious USA no longer belongs in the Free World. The coat turn and betrayal of the US European allies could not have been more insolent, more audacious and more impudent. It is as if USA had jumped in the Nazi Germany bandwagon in the WW2. Trump abandoned a country which was struggling of the leash of a Totalitarian Patrimonialist dictatorship and which was unjustly and unprovokedly attacked the said dictator - and changed sides. USA now sides a Totalitarian dictator of a Patrimonialist dictatorship - everything what USA is not, and USA has abandoned its Free World allies.
Second, USA is doing all it can to become a rogue state. With nukes and aircraft carriers. Trump has declared his goal to get rid of NATO - an organization which USA founded to encounter the Soviet and Russian threat - and of the UN, another international organization founded on US initiative. USA has become not only the laughingstock of the free world due to the antics of Trump, but also scorned. So far the free world has looked USA upwards as a beacon of democracy. Now it is seen merely as a blowtorch of plutocracy.
Third, the Project 2025 is aimed to convert USA into a Third World plutocracy. Republicans are the Evil Party - their aim is to syphon all the wealth from the poor and the middle class to those who are already filthy rich, and to turn the government into an autocracy. Since “king” has a bad echo in the Americans’ ears, perhaps Trump will declare himself as the “first citizen”? The DOGE programme is not intended to save on government expenses. It is intended to paralyze the government and make it incapable to resist the takeover.
An MIT economist says the US has regressed to a developing nation status
Peter Temin says 80 per cent of the population is burdened with debt and anxious about job security
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...trump-mit-economist-peter-temin-a7694726.html
Fourth, it is blatantly obvious USA will return back to era of segregation and subjugation of women. By controlling women’s sexuality and abortion, and denying sex education, women are going to be subjugated and suppressed into birthing machines and domestic servants. Cuts in education and equality programme are intended to dumb down the American majority and make them obedient sheeple to the plutocrats. Abandonment of the DEI is a step back to the era of segregation.
Fifth, USA is going to move away from a civil society ruled by the law into plutocracy ruled by the rich. It is blatantly obvious in the Project 2025 programme. Read it yourself. What will the Second Amendment people do? Nothing. No armed civilian mobs have ever defended citizens’ rights nor constitution nor individuals themselves. They have always sided the bullies, the dictators, the rabble rousers. I see very little difference between the Second Amendmenters and the Nazi Brownshirts.
Sixth, the cuts in the US defence budget are intended to paralyze the US military, weaken it and make it an obedient chain dog for the Republican junta. Trump is doing exactly the same as Stalin did: purging the military and culling all the competent but difficult people, replacing them with loyal stooges. Not even Hitler did that to the Wehrmacht. But slashing the military basically leaves free hands to Russia and China.They can now attack their neighbours at will.
Seventh, we are moving from a treaty and rule based world order into one where physical violence makes the right and where wars are normalized. We are now closer to the WW3 than ever, thanks to Donald Trump. Multipolar world means a violent and unstable world.
Eighth, the international trade will collapse. And this is not good for the USA. The damage was already done in the era of Reaganomics and outsourcing, and those jobs are not coming back. What will happen are acute crisis on commodities, price surges, price inflation and overall decrease on living standards except the ultra-rich.