Putin won. China won. Iran won. Venezuela won. Hungary won. Autocracies around the world won.
America lost. Americans lost. Democracy in America and around the world lost.
Pax Americana is coming to an end. After WWII the world benefited from America The Good - dedicated, imperfectly, to keeping the peace, promoting democracy and personal freedom.
Fuck that, said the autocrats. We don’t want no stinking democracy and personal freedoms, said the autocrats.
So they used their considerable disinformation and propaganda skills to split America into many disparate and angry opposing factions along any fault lines that they could discover and exploit - from race, to gender, to religion, to health care, to sexual expression, to…..boom…boom…boom goes America into shattered, hostile pieces.
The Russian Soviet Union was defeated, but Putin’s Russia just won. Russia calls Trump “America’s Gorbachev” - i.e Gorbachev lost the Soviet empire and Trump will lose the American empire.
As Lincoln told us long ago, a house divided cannot stand, so our enemies from without divided us, and enemies from within divided us, and we became enemies. And the American House is shattered and collapsing.
Too bad for Ukraine. Too bad for NATO. Too bad for a peaceful Europe freed from world war. No longer…
Too bad.
