Peter J. Chesterton

It’s over.

Over a century of American global dominance, gone.

I suppose there’s no use crying over spilled milk; it ended a while ago, after all.

The second slow Joe and all his dementia-ridden madness stepped foot on the White House lawn that gloomy four years ago, it ended.

America sunk low while our adversaries, the CRINK alliance (China, Russia, Iran, & North Korea) only grew larger and stepped higher.

What were we doing that whole time while they were plotting a new “multipolar” world order-?

Tearing down our border (and any semblance of stability).

The result hasn’t been the best.

Though just a few months ago, a miracle occurred: somebody who isn’t too busy sniffing young children’s hair entered office.

Thanks to many of Trump’s policies, America has recovered quite a bit of its global status stolen from us during the dark ages of the Biden administration.

But not all of it.

And ladies and gentlemen, I’m here to tell you we probably never will completely.

America will never again be a global superpower.

CRINK has achieved their multipolar world order.

But not in the way they wanted.

The whole concept was originally China’s idea, an idea they’ve been working on ever since the fall of the Soviets, and quite frankly, it makes sense in concept: “There were once two really big countries who were constantly competing against each other. The one guy’s gone, and now the other one remains. If we don’t do anything, he’ll take over the entire world, as if he hasn’t already. None of us have the capability to face him off alone… So what if a bunch of us moderately strong guys try to take on the really big guy?”

And y’know- it almost worked.

Almost.

The one thing they didn’t anticipate was the fact that by taking the US down, they’ve essentially placed America on the same scale of power as all of them.

Not to mention the fact that the only thing all the CRINK nations really agree on is “we hate America.”

So once their little alliance of convenience succeeds (which, so far, it essentially has), they’ll probably be eyeing each other as potential enemies next.

Combine that with the ongoing Euro-American split (and continued continent-wide European federalization), and it seems you’ve got yet another opposing power on your hands.

They have their little multipolar world order.

The only issue is none of them want to share it with each other.

So America’s been dethroned, and now the only thing everyone cares about is their own national interests and spheres of influence.

Now what-?

Peace, funnily enough.

Or, at least, relative peace.

I say we’ll probably return to a Victorian-era geopolitical situation, with a bunch of great powers (not superpowers) competing with each other and fighting smaller, more local wars in an expanded cold war-esque scenario.

Will there still be bloodshed-? Absolutely.

Will there be infinitely less compared to, say, WWIII? Most certainly.

That’s the positive we should be looking at here.

In a multipolar world order with smaller alliances and spheres of influence, there’s little to no chance of a full-on world war in the typical sense (two large sides, like the Entente & the Central Powers or the Axis & Allies duking it out to the chagrin of the innocent millions caught between their weapons of war).

That is what’s soon to come.

Under the Trumpian era, America will be great; a great power, that is.

Not a superpower, a great power, alongside the ranks of others like Russia, China, Israel, Iran, Japan, India, and (if the ever-holy Lord Macron wills it) a federalized European Union.

But again, there’s always the possibility I’m wrong; I am only human, after all.

Suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.