President Trump and decline of America’s global power and influence
In the late 1980s and early 1990s when the Soviet Union was collapsing like nine pins, western political thinkers were competing with themselves to analyse the significance of the momentous events happening from Moscow the capital city of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, and coursing right across Europe and beyond. The city […]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Western political thinkers were analyzing the significance of the Soviet Union's collapse, which had been the ideological foe of the western capitalist liberal order for over four decades. The American-led liberal democratic order had outlasted the totalitarian communist system, according to the Hegelian perspective.
Francis Fukuyama famously declared it the "end of history," suggesting that the triumph of the western liberal order had closed all ideological struggles. However, 36 years later, the world looks at President Donald J. Trump, the leader of the US, who is facing assassination attempts and struggling to maintain the US's dominant position in global affairs.
The Iran War, in particular, has exposed the US's weaknesses and diminished its economic, moral, and strategic dominance. Instead of a leader of the western liberal democratic order, Trump's actions have shown a country lagging in moral standing and abdicating its leadership role. The Iran War has resulted in a fundamental degradation of the US strategic superstructure in the Middle East, with the US losing strategic relevance and potentially being forced to abandon its strategic alliances.
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