Insights into Global System Collapse: Thank You, Trump

For years, even decades, we have lived within a grand narrative that asserts the world, despite its contradictions, is slowly moving toward a more just, human and law-abiding system. This narrative said that democracy, human rights and international law were no longer mere slogans, but rules of the game governing relations between states, setting limits on power and granting the weak a minimum level of protection. However, what we are witnessing today is not a passing crisis with this system, but its complete exposure.

This article neither criticizes the West, nor defends the East, nor yearns for an old system, nor justifies a new form of tyranny. It is an attempt to understand how the illusion came crashing down, and how the global system transformed from one that professed to have values to one that proclaimed power, from moral hypocrisy to unmasked brutality.

The rise of Donald Trump was a revealing moment, not because he created this reality, but because he described and made it openly, without shame or apology. But what comes after Trump is even more dangerous: a world without principles, without red lines and without comforting illusions.

In this article, I don't ask who the offender is. Instead, we ask the more difficult question: What remains of the global system? And where is humanity headed?

Thank you, Trump.

For you have lifted the scales from the eyes and minds of many — the eyes of those foolish politicians who long believed in democracy, human rights and just governance. They defended these principles, taking positions at personal sacrifice, all under the illusion that the world, even as it stumbled, was moving in a generally moral direction.

We knew, or chose to ignore that we knew, from British, French and traditional European colonialism in the Middle East, to China, Africa, the two Americas and Australia. From direct hegemony to economic colonialism, and from taking over energy and wealth resources through "modern" methods, to erasing nations from maps, killing entire populations and installing puppet leaders in most countries of the world.

All of this was clear to us. But sometimes we closed our eyes out of optimism, sometimes out of naiveté, and sometimes — let's be honest — out of fear. Until you came along.

You didn't sugarcoat it, you didn't hide it, you didn't try to be clever. You said the quiet part out loud. You did openly what they did in the shadows.

You were clear: in your cruelty, your political depravity, your bigotry, your naked materialism, your immorality and in your pride in it all. Then came the climax: kidnapping a head of a state; open talk of annexing and occupying other countries; the abandonment of all the free trade principles the United States championed; the shameless abrogation of international agreements; and the blatant racism within the U.S. itself, expelling citizens, chasing after others and arresting people on mere suspicion. There is no more pretense, no more mask.

Now that others have received permission from the leader of the free world, as we used to call him I imagine, in fact, I am almost certain, that other countries will copy the model of assassinating and kidnapping leaders.

And I imagine that the tyrannical leaders of undeveloped countries will grow even more tyrannical with confidence and freedom, as long as their role model, Trump, the new world bully, has given the go-ahead. Benjamin Netanyahu will undoubtedly remain your favorite leader, because when crimes are committed in the name of power, they become policy, and when they are committed in the name of an ally, they become a virtue.

I am naturally optimistic, but what I see in the world today is dangerous and disturbing. We are witnessing a blatant return to the law of the jungle: no law, no limits, no governing values, not even a veneer of moral hypocrisy to beautify the ugliness.

I thanked you, Trump, not because you did the right thing, but because you exposed the lie completely, tore away any pretense and forced the world to see itself naked in the mirror.

International law was never just, but it claimed to be. This claim — however weak it may have seemed — constrained power, a space for protest, and a minimum standard the system had to meet. Today, this pretense is over! Breaking the law is no longer an exception; it has become the rule. Sovereignty is no longer a principle, but a temporary privilege that the major powers grant and deny.

The law has not been abolished, but emptied of its substance. The powerful use it when it serves their purpose, ignore it when it restricts them and reinterpret it when it exposes them. Therefore, the world has transitioned from a system where weapons were — ostensibly — subject to the law, to one where the balance of power defines the law.

Democracy did not fall because it failed, but because it was applied unethically. It has been transformed from a human value into a tool of political pressure, wielded against adversaries and buried for allies. Repressive regimes are forgiven, people are condemned and ballot boxes are celebrated here and demonized there. The standard is no longer the will of the people, but the state's position on the political map.

Thus, democracy lost its meaning, not for those oppressed in its name, nor for those in whose name it was adulterated, but at the hands of those who established it and deceived us into believing it could be sustained.

When the petty tyrant sees that the big tyrant goes unpunished, he is freed from the last vestiges of hesitation. Oppression will no longer need rhetoric, arrests will no longer need justification and corruption will no longer need anyone to deny it. The deal is clear: allegiance in exchange for immunity, silence in exchange for survival, both globally and locally. Therefore, tyranny enters a new phase: tyranny without anxiety, without fear and without even irony.

The Jungle Economy: End of Moral Globalization

Globalization did not collapse because it was unjust, but because it claimed to be moral. When free trade clashed with the interests of the powerful, it collapsed immediately. Sanctions are no longer a tool of political pressure, but a weapon of mass starvation. Markets are no longer open, but entirely politicized. The economy is no longer competitive, but a battleground without bloodshed.

Israel as a Blatant Example of the New System

Israel is no longer an exception in the global system, but has become its clearest example. Occupation without apology, killing without accountability, criminalizing the victim and victimizing the criminal. What was once committed in shame is now perpetrated with confidence; what we could once justify no longer needs justification.

When occupation becomes the norm, certain countries are no longer exceptions in the global system but become its manifest model. Occupation without apology, killing without accountability.

We are not living in chaos, but in a n evolving system, one without communal values, without governing law and without any comforting illusions. The question is no longer whether the world will return to what it was, but can humanity build a more just system without lies.

This article does not offer an answer, but it refuses to be complicit through silence.

Final word: The hazard lies not in the collapse of the illusion, but in becoming accustomed to ugliness after it has been exposed.