What will Trump do after August 8?

In fact, the most interesting thing will not be what Donald Trump says on August 8, but what happens the next day. We already understand that Donald Trump does not have a magic wand in his pocket, and his fault lies not in the absence of this wand, but in creating the illusion of its existence. If it turns out that China and India ignore the sanctions and continue trading with Russia, and Russia continues the war — which is most likely to happen — it will mean that the United States is incapable of restoring order and establishing peace where war does not frighten the world of the global South.

And then Trump has two options. The first is to accept his own helplessness and try to protect what has not yet been captured by the “other world” (which, of course, will advance, because it will be convinced of Western weakness). This is the death of geopolitical America and the global West.

“And the second is to not let up and keep pushing Russia, China, and India as hard as possible, to step up military aid to Ukraine, to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on this aid, and to reorient the American economy toward confronting those who violate the world order.”

Yes, this approach would entail the risk of World War III breaking out during Trump's term in office, but there is no other way to keep America great, and there never has been.

Trump will have to make the most difficult choice in the short history of American statehood.

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About the author. Vitaly Portnikov, journalist, Ukrainian National Shevchenko Prize winner.

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