When Donald Trump won the US elections, I was elated. I thought maybe this guy would be beneficial for the world. How naïve I was.
Being an Indian, I must tell you that previous governments were much better when it came to treating people from other countries.
I don’t mind him using ICE to throw illegal immigrants out because every country should follow that policy.
I don’t hate him for that.
I don’t hate him for closing down DEI, which was a dumb idea to begin with, and India has been suffering from similar issues for ages without having such a department. We have made provisions for it in our Constitution.
I don’t hate him for setting the record straight about the identity of men and women and putting an end to the debate about whether trans males are male or female.
Human civilization cannot be more certain about what gender is and how many genders exist. That was the biggest nonsense I saw in recent times, and it was invading India, where men claimed to be women and women claimed to be men.
I don’t hate him for his rational decisions, but I hate his irrational behavior, where he behaves as if he is the king of the world.
His tenure has seen more tension in the world than ever, and yet he claims to deserve the Nobel Prize for Peace.
I have never seen a more delusional man in my life who craves the Nobel Prize like a madman.
The US made a mistake—a very grave mistake.
The world order of power will shift. The US was known to cuddle every country and make them dependent on it and wouldn’t let them have business with anyone else because it had a very rich consumer market that could buy things at high prices.
Countries were abiding by those rules because they saw profit in them. The US was happy because most of the world’s resources were coming to it.
But it made a mistake. It gave countries a thought they had never considered before.
They never thought that someday there would be a time when they would have to look for alternatives to the US.
Since they never thought about it, US dominance was going on as usual.
This time, Trump scared them so much that they have all started looking for alternatives.
A bully can bully someone only until others are scared of him. But if you stretch a rubber band too much, it will break—and it has broken now.
Countries, on one side, are adhering to Trump’s warnings because over the years they hadn’t thought of looking for alternatives.
Now they still adhere to him and negotiate, but at the same time they have also started looking for alternatives.
These alternatives will create another market, and over the years this market will become so powerful that they won’t need Trump anymore.
US power comes from the fact that the world today deals primarily in dollars. It is like the world’s currency.
But the day the dollar becomes weak and countries start trading in other currencies, some other currency will emerge.
The latest trade deal between India and Europe has decided to deal mostly in non-dollar currencies, which is a good sign of the end of dollar dominance.
There is no official statement from India that it has stopped buying Russian oil, yet the US under Trump keeps claiming that India has stopped buying Russian oil.
They keep claiming victory when there is none and behave like Pakistan, which keeps losing every time yet continues to claim victory.
The delusion of victory is sometimes very detrimental. It can help and motivate you to do more, but it can also delude you to the level where you start behaving like a winner and only look up while something below you makes progress and, in the future, overshadows you.
The Trump regime for the next three years is going to be the worst time for the US. They don’t realize it, but it will be.
I love patriotism, and I love nationalism—something the left hates.
But overdoing anything is wrong.
To fool people over nationalism and fill their minds with jingoistic thoughts while doing whatever you want under the garb of that ideology is a sin for any country’s head.
I have trust in Modi that he will do the right thing. He has always done the right thing. He is also a patriot and nationalist, but he never wears it on his sleeve.
Time will tell what will happen next, while we mortals can only predict and give opinions.
Our opinions can be right or wrong, but one thing is sure: the world order is changing, and Donald Trump is one of the worst presidents the world has ever seen.
By the way, no matter what, I will always love Karoline Leavitt.