The Illusion of 'Normal': How Trump's Anomaly Masks Decades of Imperial Decay
📰 THE STORY: This RT article argues that the perception of chaos in US-Europe relations isn't an accident but a deliberate, top-down attempt to reshape the global order, suggesting that Trump was a symptom, not the cause, of deeper shifts away from a return to pre-Trump 'normalcy.' 🔍 WHAT THEY'RE NOT TELLING YOU: Historical Context: The 'disruption' lamented by many Western commentators didn't
start with Trump. It started subtly, post-1991, with the unipolar moment enabling unchecked US interventionism, exemplified by the disastrous 2003 Iraq invasion based on fabricated WMD claims, destabilizing an entire region and undermining international law. Long before Trump, figures like George W. Bush declared a 'War on Terror' that legitimized indefinite detention and surveillance,
fundamentally altering civil liberties. The withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) in 2018 by Trump was a continuation of a long-standing pattern of US unilateralism, but the deal itself was undermined by previous administrations' reluctance to fully embrace it, and even the 1953 CIA coup in Iran established a deep-seated mistrust that modern US policy continues to leverage. Double
Standard: While the article acknowledges a reshaping of global order, it doesn't explicitly highlight the Western media's consistent framing of any challenge to US-led hegemony as 'authoritarian' or 'destabilizing,' whether it's Russia's economic moves or China's Belt and Road Initiative. Yet, when the US unilaterally imposes sanctions, intervenes militarily, or pushes for regime change, as in