ANALYSIS AND POLITICAL THEORY

TRUMP BURST THE BUBBLE OF "IDEOLOGIES."

There is no nation, government, or empire that has not negotiated with its mortal enemies when necessary

Por: Luis Alvizuri (Filósofo)

Today, all political parties and trends around the world have received a cold shower: Trump. But has this president invented anything, or is he a genius in geopolitics? Of course not. Anyone who reviews history will frequently find this phenomenon. There is no nation, government, or empire that has not negotiated with its mortal enemies when necessary. To cite the most well-known examples, the Athenians and Spartans made peace and war with Persia as often as required. Rome and Carthage were both allies and mortal enemies multiple times. Alexander the Great abandoned his European ideas and origins to integrate into the “modus vivendi” of Eastern peoples. France and England were rivals during the Napoleonic era, but later they became allies. DISORIENTED LEFT AND RIGHT The explanation has a name: pragmatism. It means that one may have antipathies or even hatred toward certain societies or ideas, but when mutual convenience arises, all that is set aside, ignored, or even eliminated. It could be due to a common enemy, an internal crisis, or future planning. There are many reasons why it becomes essential to ally with a lifelong opponent and break ties with the most loyal ally. What determines this is not “ideas” or “ideologies,” which often become dogmas from which their followers cannot escape, but rather concrete and evident facts that demand such actions. Just read the history of Rome, from its beginnings to its fall, to understand how an empire is built and then how it is sustained. Great powers never have “friends,” only partners—people who, for the moment, are useful but who, over time, may become inconvenient. And that is precisely what is happening to the right and left at all levels, both in Europe and Latin America: they do not understand what is happening or why their “champion,” the U.S., is acting the way it does. For ideologies, things are always “clear and direct,” where their “friends” are always “the good guys” while their “enemies” are “the bad guys.” Thus, they cannot comprehend why Trump wants to “negotiate” with Russia, which is “the ultimate villain,” while calling Zelensky a “dictator,” even though he has been practically canonized by global progressivism. WHEN BUSINESS RULES, IDEOLOGIES DO NOT This confusion arises because politicians are usually not businesspeople nor do they manage businesses. They are trained for parliamentary affairs (“parlar” means “to talk” in Latin), and their main strength lies in the art of convincing the people to “believe in them.” In other words, politicians wield “a discourse,” a construct of interconnected ideas aimed at defining reality in the way a certain power circle desires. Politicians do not “craft” the discourse they spread; rather, they receive it from those sectors that seek dominance and use them as a means to an end. That is why there are countless types of “discourses” or “truths” that attempt to tell the masses “what they must believe and what they must reject.” The art of oratory is precisely that: being as convincing as possible to the audience and leading them to think and act as the speaker desires. That is what a politician is. OBJECTIVE REALITY But the problem is that objective reality is never “the discourse.” In other words, discourse (ideology) does not describe reality as it is but seeks to “construct it” in people's minds. For example, flat-earthers (those who still believe the Earth is flat) try to prove their ideas with various “pieces of evidence” that supposedly confirm their claims (a road, a football field are obviously “flat” and not curved), which leads some to consider it “true” and adopt the belief. It does not matter that overwhelming evidence confirms the Earth's roundness; they assimilate the discourse as truth and believe it. The same happens in various fields of knowledge, which consist of a collection of discourses that we all carry in our minds and accept as “true.” This variety and complexity of discourses are so vast that it is unlikely humanity will ever fully agree and accept them uniformly. In science, religion, art, and political thought, the discourses that “shape reality” differ and often conflict. No two scientists think exactly the same about their fields, just as no two believers in the same faith interpret it identically. This highlights the importance of those who construct these discourses—opinion leaders, Nobel laureates, saints, etc.—as they are the ones who “guide” the population in understanding them. However, all this operates exclusively in the immaterial world of our intellect; objective reality, what “is,” never has a discourse that “explains” it. By itself, reality has no inherent explanation, except for the interpretations provided by discourse authors, each in their own way. AND NOW, WHO ARE THE “GOOD GUYS” AND WHO ARE THE “BAD GUYS”? As we can see, politicians and their followers, who rely primarily on their “discourses,” find themselves lost on a path they thought was “clear and transparent.” Those they saw as “allies” are no longer so, while their “mortal enemies” are now treated as “the correct ones.” This is the dilemma currently facing Europe and its satellite, Latin America. “Daddy U.S. is acting irrationally,” they say, failing to realize that it never has—it has always prioritized its own interests over those of others, whether allies or not. The decisions made by that country (which is an empire, although it has always refused to admit it in all languages) are designed solely for its own benefit and not for that of others. THE MEDIA TRAP Why are politicians now astonished by the attitude of the U.S., their former hero of "freedom and democracy"? Because of the media, especially cinema and television. These have created a "solid and untouchable" image of the United States—something it has never been. They fail to realize that there is a difference between "what it seems," "what is said," or "what is shown" and actual facts. From the very beginning, the U.S. was set on becoming the global hegemon, even at the expense of its supposed "Western friends." A clear example of this is how the U.S. only entered World War II eight months before it ended, when the USSR had already annihilated 9/10 of the German army, and it was necessary to stop the Red Army from taking over all of Europe. In other words, the U.S. waited for the continent to be completely devastated before arriving victoriously and imposing its terms of dominance. AND NOW, WHAT WILL THEY DO? On one side, the "progressive left" (which is leftist in name only, as it has been created and funded by the world's major capitalist corporations) is barking at Trump because "the U.S. has betrayed them" after Biden pushed them and gave them orders to wage war against Russia. Meanwhile, the "liberal right" (the non-extremist faction that typically does business following conventional rules) rants against him because he is not acting as he "should"—that is, in line with the patterns set by the IMF and the World Bank. Trump has upended the game and is sticking solely to his strategic plan: MAGA ("Make America Great Again"), which requires discarding anything that hinders it—including Europe's current alignment with the 2030 Agenda, created by the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, and Soros. He is crafting his own "New World Order," and to achieve it, he must break many eggs, many "rules," and, above all, many "narratives" that no longer fit his current objectives.

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