{"id":43765,"date":"2026-01-22T13:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43765"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:52:52","slug":"we-are-witnessing-the-self-immolation-of-a-superpower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43765","title":{"rendered":"We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With Donald Trump\u2019s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy could not invent a better chain of events to wreck the standing of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of a Superpower<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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longread, but worth it. combine this with carney’s davos speech<\/a>. shit’s changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagine you were<\/strong>\u00a0Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping and you woke up a year ago having magically been given command of puppet strings that control the White House. Your explicit geopolitical goal is to undermine trust in the United States on the world stage. You want to destroy the Western rules-based order that has preserved peace and security for 80 years, which allowed the US to triumph as an economic superpower and beacon of hope and innovation for the world. What exactly would you do differently with your marionette other than enact the ever more reckless agenda that\u00a0Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0has pursued since he became president last year?
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To watch the\u00a0push for Greenland<\/a>\u00a0is to experience one of the wildest things that any country or head of state has done in the entire history of the modern world, dating back to the very creation of the nation-state era in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia.
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It is hard, in fact, to find any geopolitical parallel. Countries and leaders have certainly made choices and mistakes that ended in ruin\u2014there\u2019s Napoleon setting out to invade Russia or the actions of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the start of World War I\u2014but it\u2019s impossible to think of a single moment when a country so thoroughly set about consciously dismantling its core sources of national strength and influence.
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And yet systematically over the last year\u2014in ways that Putin or Xi couldn\u2019t have dreamed we would do to ourselves\u2014Donald Trump has undermined all six pillars. In recent weeks specifically, he has done lasting and irreparable damage to the rule of law, global alliances, and the independence of US monetary policy.
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This is the end of the world as we have known it for 80 years\u2014all for reasons that will confound future political scientists and historians. There is no strategy behind this exercise in superpower suicide other than the president\u2019s own narcissism, greed, and his\u00a0general frustration<\/a>\u00a0at never being respected by the elites whose favor he desires more than anything.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Donald Trump\u2019s actions in Greenland, Minneapolis, and Venezuela, a foreign enemy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1102],"class_list":["post-43765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-tfg","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43769,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43765\/revisions\/43769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}