By Velian Krav - 15/07/2025
Trump is a narcissist, sure.
A brash grifter.
A man intoxicated by his own image, who measures worth by applause and power by the gravity of the room when he walks in.
But beneath the bombast is a strangely effective disruptor.
The irony is that Trump, despite — or because of — his clownish, arrogant theatre, is helping dismantle the very structures that once demanded unthinking loyalty.
The theatre of anti-Russia
Look at his ostentatious attacks on Putin and Russia.
So loud, so hyperbolic, so visibly performative that no one dares accuse him of double-dealing.
Because who would imagine that such clumsy, exaggerated condemnation might actually mask strategic ambiguity?
This is a classic cover — he is unassailable on collusion charges because he overcompensates in public.
The West buys the show, grateful for a lead actor who channels their old obsessions.
Meanwhile, real shifts in global power dynamics slip by almost unnoticed.
Ruining Europe to save the world order?
Trump’s genius, accidental or deliberate, is forcing Europe to reveal itself:
Pushing it into ever more aggressive anti-Russian stances.
Burdening it with unsustainable security costs.
Hollowing out its economies via tariffs and enforced arms races.
All under the intoxication of anti-Russian fervor — a psychological lever so deeply embedded in the Western elite mind that they can’t see they’re destroying themselves.
And ironically, this doesn’t prepare Europe for war with Russia.
It prepares it for irrelevance, for being economically and strategically subordinate — ultimately to the East.
Trump is driving Europe straight into Asia’s waiting hands, stripping it of illusions of being a sovereign pole.
A test of national maturity
At the same time, his tactics create the conditions for independence.
The pain of reality is forcing new leaders to emerge — people who will reject the suicidal campaigns of their predecessors, who will insist on taking control of their nations’ fates.
In this way, Trump is a wrecking ball against the rotting architecture of the liberal Atlanticist world.
Whether by instinct or calculation, he’s forcing states to either mature — or perish under the weight of their own contradictions.
Is Trump fully aware?
Maybe he’s not.
Maybe he’s just an instinctual beast, a shark biting whatever bleeds.
Or maybe he’s stumbled into a historical role bigger than his intellect — driven by forces of polarity that use narcissists precisely because they can’t see beyond themselves.
It almost doesn’t matter.
Because in the larger game, his moves are accelerating the necessary collapse of a degenerate order, creating space for something else to emerge.