The United States is no longer taken as seriously by the world. the shine of the superpower is fading. the hegemon of the world is not so strong and this is visible to many.
They are watched and silently rejected, not as a stable hegemon, but as an unstable spectacle.
In his book “The Power of the Powerless”, Vaclav Havel, the former President of Czech Republic, described a system in which lies are not accidental, but fundamental.
A system that does not merely tolerate falsehood, but requires it, reproduces it, lives within it: “Because the regime is hostage to its own lies, it must falsify everything.”
It has become a method of governance.
It was not an occasional distortion.
It was industrial, systematic, relentless.
What we are seeing now is not a deviation from this pattern, but its escalation.
The scale has expanded, the stakes have deepened, and the consequences have become global.
Now they are immersed in war - An avalanche of lies
However, even here, language is the first casualty.
Trump was careful to refuse to name it for what it is.
Not war, but “operation”, “limited mission”, even “excursion”, for declaring war on Iran.
Reality tells a different story: thousands of troops deployed, carrier strike groups repositioned, air assets mobilized and special forces entered.
What was presented as limited action has expanded into a widening conflict, stretching across multiple theaters and threatening to overwhelm the region and beyond.
The market is the new empire
It was supposed to last hours.
Hours became days and days became weeks. There is still no end in sight.
It is the market that has been elevated into government and empire.
Everything is negotiable, even the truth becomes a bargaining chip.
After the 12 day war of June 2025, Trump stated that Iran’s nuclear program had been “completely eliminated.”
Months later, he invoked the same program to justify further military action.
Then came the avalanche of lies
Trump claimed that the United States had destroyed the Iranian navy, even as tensions in the Gulf intensified and American forces were pushed into a more defensive posture in contested waters.
He insisted that the majority of Iran’s missile capabilities had been eliminated, while 84 waves of missiles struck Tel Aviv, proving Iran’s active and adaptive capabilities.
Recently Trump threatened to eliminate Iran’s power plants within 48 hours, shocking markets and governments.
Then, almost seamlessly, he pivoted, citing “good and productive” negotiations.
He claimed that he had initiated advanced talks with the Iranian leadership, only to face public denials from the Speaker of Parliament, his deputy and the Foreign Minister.
And yet, Trump continued, a pattern and spoke of victory.
Trump constantly claims that the war has been won, even as battles continue and escalation deepens.
Attack on truth
Facts surpass victory
Victory has not been achieved.
It is announced, each time it is overtaken by events on the ground.
The leadership in Iran has not collapsed, nor has the state been defeated.
Instead, the United States faces an opponent that continues to function, to strike and to endure.
George Orwell becomes inevitable
This is where George Orwell becomes inevitable.
In such systems, language is inverted: war becomes peace, destruction becomes stability.
But Trump’s method goes one step further.
The constant invocation of “fake news”, which is also repeated by the Defense Minister, is not merely an attack on the media.
It is an attack on the very possibility of truth.
The goal is disorientation
The goal is disorientation, to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction so completely that the public no longer trusts either.
Fact begins to appear as fiction.
Fiction, repeated with confidence, acquires the weight of fact.
The people no longer ask what is true, only what is announced.
At times, the performance descends into parody.
At a rally, Trump implied that the leadership of Iran wanted him as supreme leader, before theatrically rejecting the offer: “No, thank you, I do not want it.”
Claims that would be dismissed in fiction are voiced from the highest office on earth and applauded, and that is the point.
When falsehood becomes systematic, absurdity becomes normal.
Trump governs the United States as he trades on the stock market
Trump is the purest expression of a commercial logic unleashed upon power.
He governs as he traded: deals without limits, leverage without principles, greed without restraint.
This is not statecraft.
It is the market elevated into government and empire. Everything is negotiable and transactional. Even the truth becomes a bargaining chip.
Trump believes in his own charm
Trump is not merely a businessman.
He is a businessman who believes excessively in his own charm.
He is not self made, but self convinced.
His inheritance is mistaken for genius, his privilege renamed as virtue.
From this emerges a theatrical entitlement: a man oscillating between egomania and grievance, between grandeur and paranoia, convinced not only that he is right, but that reality itself must yield to his assertion about it.
He does not describe reality.
He performs it. His statements are not grounded in facts.
They are designed to impress, to overwhelm, to dazzle.
Consistency does not matter.
Effect does.
If reality resists, he escalates.
If facts contradict him, he replaces them.
If the world questions him, he doubles down, because he believes repetition can substitute for truth.
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Beside him stands the United States Secretary of War, whose rhetoric adds a darker tone, with biblical overtones and speeches about a civilizational struggle or crusade, in which the conflict is presented as destiny.
This is a robbery wrapped in theology, and the result is not power.
It is spectacle: a superpower that speaks in absolutes, acts in contradictions and expects the world to accept both.
The world no longer follows the United States
But the world no longer does.
Allies hesitate.
Opponents calculate.
In moments of crisis, even those long accustomed to following Washington’s leadership step back:
France resists.
Germany hesitates. Even the United Kingdom offers only limited, defensive support.
When does power collapse?
The pattern is familiar. During the 1956 Suez Crisis, former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden discovered that power collapses not when it is defeated, but when it is no longer credible.
This is the shift now underway.
The United States is no longer taken as seriously as it once was.
It is watched and silently rejected, not as a stable hegemon, but as something unstable. A spectacle. A performance. A farce.
This is not an ordinary comedy. This is black comedy.
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