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America Unchained: How Trump’s Revolution Shook the World and Ourselves
I. Introduction: When the Ground Shakes
Imagine the world order as a structure built over decades, brick by painstaking brick. Then imagine Donald Trump arriving not with a trowel, but a wrecking ball. His time at the center of American politics wasn’t just a policy shift; it was a political earthquake, sending tremors through the foundations of global alliances, trade, and America’s very identity built since World War II.
Was he a master strategist dismantling an outdated empire, a wild decolonisation project as some saw it? Or was it, as others claimed, simply blundering incompetence on a grand scale? This story dives into that disruption. It pieces together different views to understand how Trump — whether by design or impulse — steered the US onto a radically different course. His actions force us to rethink everything: Who are America’s friends? How does global trade work? What are America’s priorities at home? And what does it even mean to be the world’s superpower in the 21st century? Let’s explore the fractured landscape he helped create.
II. Tearing Down the Walls (or Building New Ones?)
One striking idea is that Trump launched a wild decolonisation project. Not freeing colonies…
