Alastair Crooke's paragraph about president Trump — sums the American predicament

© 2025 Peter Free

 

03 June 2025

 

 

If we combine bellicose unpredictability . . .

 

. . . with chaos-producing moronitude, we get where the United States is today.

 

As summed by Alastair Crooke:

 

 

The crucial flaw is that Trump’s crude transactionalism is shredding his credibility as a serious geo-political actor and consequently compelling others to hedge against the dollar.

 

In short, the collapse in credibility caused by Trump’s disdain for reading; for intel briefings and his reliance on the he or she who last whispered in his ear [—] lends to policy flip-flops, and a general desire for others to disengage as far as possible from the unpredictable Trumpland.

 

© 2025 Alastair Crooke, 'One Quiet Early Morning in Beijing, the Dollar’s Crown Slipped', Unz Review (02 June 2025)

 

 

The moral? — A country led by belligerent fools . . .

 

. . . eventually gets itself treated as such.

 

Contrast China's general competence. With a population four times the United States'. And a manufacturing base massively also a few times larger.

 

Who is going that win that radically unnecessary — but US-forced — confrontation?

 

Self-destructive American brainlessness is on universal display around the world.

 

Avarice, viciousness and stupidity are the deadliest of sins. The United States has elevated all three to American culture's purported pinnacle accomplishments.

 

Reality will be the spike that cleaves America's psychotic skull.

 

Leaving an incoherent mush for others to contemplate in parable form. While they energetically build, where we (by choice) only destroyed.

 

So at figuratively the last minute, will We the People suddenly pull our heads out of our (apparently not so metaphorical) asses?

 

History says not. Being elderly and sadly observant, I tend to agree. Aggressively malignant cancer usually destroys its originating host.

 

Whether that is a pity or not, depends on where — and who — one is. 1776 and 1789 were a long time ago.

 

Cultural worth's baton has since changed hands. Exactly Alastair Crooke's point.