Can the international community stand idly by as a once free nation descends into authoritarian oppression? That is the question being asked in capital cities around the world. The patterns are clear.
During his first term Trump encouraged insurrectionists to march on the Capitol building. The mob armed with a gallows stormed the building to disrupt what had up until that point been the traditionally peaceful transition of power. A mob whose members were, upon Trump’s returning to power in his second term, pardoned of their treasonous behaviour.
Trump has turned his aggression to both internal and international foes. He has conducted negotiations with Iran knowing full well that Israel was planning to attack during them and then joined in himself with a bombing raid on nuclear facilities.
Domestically he has deployed troops onto the nation’s streets to quell protests at his policies and all of this in a country notorious for gerrymandered election districts in which the candidate who spends the most wins.
Closer to home, Trump has threatened to annex a peaceful neighbour in Canada, whilst threatening to crush its economy if it does not comply. He has threatened a land grab to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal over resources he simply wants.
All of this against a backdrop of a failed economic policy in which he has used tariffs to impose sanctions on his own working people onto whom he is, through his Big Beautiful Bill moving the tax burden from the wealthiest in society with any shortfall being made-up by the tariff funds acting as a federal Value Added Tax.
“It’s clear that this despotic behaviour cannot be allowed to continue, otherwise the USA as we know it will cease to be,” said Ali Billingsworthni from his office in Tehran. “Perhaps we need to simply raise a question about regime change in the USA.”
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