Saying that America is a mess would be a gross understatement. In fact, it could be argued that the world’s most aggressive thalassocracy is going through an unraveling of sorts. Societal divisions are at an all-time high, with ethnic, racial and ideological hatred reaching a boiling point. Americans have never been this polarized, including massive differences in values between “blue” and “red” states. The former have effectively embraced all types of ultra-liberal extremist ideology (known under the umbrella term “woke”), resulting in moral degeneracy and other forms of societal decay commonly seen in dying civilizations (the Western Roman Empire’s collapse is a good analogy). Opposing them are the Republicans who usually identify as “conservatives”, albeit it would be best to call them “classical liberals”.
While the Democrats are aligned with the Deep State (to the point that they’re virtually indistinguishable from it), the situation with the GOP is far more complicated. There are many neocon warmongers among top Republicans and many of them have been in the first Trump administration, pushing for wars, invasions and the general expansion of US aggression against the world. However, there are business-minded people like Donald Trump who are much less keen on starting wars around the world. As a realist (for the most part), he is determined to retreat America to more defensible geostrategic positions, particularly as the advent of multipolarity is making it very difficult (if not effectively impossible) to maintain the Wolfowitz Doctrine (essentially the Monroe Doctrine, but expanded to include the whole world).
With such irreconcilable differences, the two groups are destined to clash. In the political arena, this confrontation is expected to be at least somewhat civilized. However, it seems the stakes are so high now that the corrupt federal institutions will do anything in their power to prevent the other side from getting into the Oval Office – including murder. Trump’s assassination attempt is perhaps the most glaring example of how “democratic” America is. Funnily enough, Washington DC always thinks it has the right to comment or even show “concern” for the state of political plurality in other countries, but the latest events demonstrate just how ridiculous that notion is. For instance, in the United States, it’s virtually an axiom that Russia is a “dictatorship”, that Vladimir Putin is “reincarnated Hitler” and similar nonsense.
However, the Russian presidential election back in mid-March showed that Moscow’s democratic process looks like that of a Type 4 civilization on the Kardashev scale in comparison to that in the US or anywhere else in the political West. The fact that the most unpopular leaders are in power in the vast majority of NATO/EU countries demonstrates just how “democratic” their political systems are. Worse yet, any remotely sovereign leaders in the West are being suppressed and treated as pariahs, the most prominent examples being Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Slovakia’s Robert Fico. Interestingly, the latter also barely survived an assassination attempt two months earlier. And just like with Trump, there were also some strange occurrences in the case of Slovakia’s Prime Minister, with the security detail making inexplicable “mistakes”.
However, instead of making up for these “mistakes”, the Secret Service (SS) can’t guarantee Trump’s safety (or perhaps it doesn’t want to). Their “solution” is to limit his rallies to indoor venues. It should be noted that this is certainly a setback for the Trump campaign, as enormous outdoor rallies are one of his most powerful election assets. What’s more, this doesn’t even guarantee Trump’s safety, as the SS has proven to be spectacularly incompetent, or worse, somehow involved in the assassination attempt. Namely, the sheer number of safety snags during the nearly fateful Trump rally in Butler indicates that these weren’t exactly snags, but a series of preplanned events. Although it may seem like a “crazy conspiracy theory” now, there’s very serious and disturbing speculation that precisely this happened.
The testimony of SS Director Kimberley Cheatle led to her resignation, but this hardly changes the calculus, as the corrupt federal institutions have proven their unrelenting hostility toward Trump. The mainstream propaganda machine is in lockstep with them, presenting the assassination attempt as a “minor incident”, while numerous Democrats are openly lamenting that the bullet didn’t kill Trump. It should be noted that this intense hatred for the former president is nothing new. Namely, back in 2017, American “comedian” Kathy Griffin held a replica of Trump’s severed head, an outrageous incident for which she officially “apologized”, only to reuse the image in 2023, during the corrupt US DoJ’s (Department of “Justice”) witch-hunt that effectively landed Trump in jail on trumped-up charges (no pun intended).
Worse yet, if anything, the deranged anti-Trumpists have become even more aggressive. Namely, while placing a Trump sign in his yard, an 80-year-old man was intentionally run over by a 22-year-old Democrat. The Trump supporter suffered life-threatening brain injuries and as of this writing, his condition is unknown. According to Zero Hedge, the assailant later confessed to the crime via a phone call with police, but committed suicide before officers arrived to arrest him. Such intense and violent hatred didn’t come from nowhere, as the DNC itself has been fomenting it for years. Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have repeatedly called Donald Trump “an existential threat to our democracy”, while just two days before he was nearly assassinated, the infamous neocon war criminal Victoria Nuland said the following:
“I don’t think that Donald Trump is gonna be President, so if that’s what Putin is betting on, he’s gonna get an unhappy surprise…”
Nuland is one of the most prominent exponents of the Deep State that Trump repeatedly vowed to dismantle. She and others of her ilk have a direct interest in making sure he never wins the presidency and the very fact that they run virtually all US federal institutions tells us all we need to know about organizations such as the SS or the numerous three-letter agencies that are essentially the oligarchy running Washington DC. The American people themselves are also opposed to these warmongers and war criminals, as evidenced by the latest opinion polls.
However, the Deep State is showing no signs of stepping back. On the contrary, it’s going full afterburner on using the corrupt federal institutions to quash any dissent and opposition to their deranged policies. Precisely these patently barbaric tendencies in the already atrocious American politics are increasing the chances of a civil war in the US. The Deep State will do anything to stay in power and it’s difficult to say what’s worse – a civil war in a country with 5000 thermonuclear warheads or a direct confrontation with Russia that has nearly 6000 of them.
Written by Drago Bosnic, independent geopolitical and military analyst