Yuri Kobzar15:17, 06.09.25

Now America is a problem for its allies, not its enemies.

A little over seven months have passed since Donald Trump’s inauguration , but this time has been enough for him to completely destroy the international authority of the United States. Under the slogan “Make America Great Again,” Trump has turned his country into an international laughing stock, with whom fewer and fewer people are taking into account. This is what the authoritative American magazine The Atlantic writes .

“The leaders of Russia, China, and North Korea are not good people. They run brutal autocracies replete with secret police and prisoner-of-war camps. But they are serious people nonetheless, and they know a frivolous person when they see one. For nearly a decade, they have evaluated Donald Trump and come to a clear conclusion: the president of the United States is not worthy of their respect,” the author of the publication writes.

One of the most telling moments is the World Dictator Summit, held recently in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. Even Lukashenko, Putin’s puppet who rules Belarus, was invited to the event. But the US president was not invited, even though it was the US that made the main contribution to the defeat of the Japanese Empire, which the Chinese communists now claim as their own.

The Atlantic sees a striking contrast between the Alaska summit, which ended in a diplomatic humiliation for Trump, and the Beijing summit of dictators, where Putin, Xi, and Kim expressed solidarity with each other amid a brazen display of Chinese military might. 

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“Trump reacted to his exclusion from the gala concert in Beijing by behaving exactly like the third-tier leader that Xi, Putin, and Kim seem to consider him to be,” the journalist writes, referring to Trump’s statement on social media about a Beijing “conspiracy” against the United States .

The author of the publication emphasizes that authoritarian leaders have a good relationship with Trump, taking advantage of his incompetence, while US allies are focused on constantly soothing his ego. 

As The Atlantic writes, Trump ran for president not to solve America’s problems, but for personal reasons – to avoid prison. His foreign policy is just an extension of his personal interests – the desire to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. And the worst thing is that now Trump does not have a team of competent bureaucrats who can do all the work for him, as was the case during his first term. This time he has gathered around him incompetent sycophants who are loyal to him personally.

“America is drifting with the tide. It has no coherent foreign policy, no team of senior experts to guide its national defense and diplomacy, and a president who has little interest in the world except for what it has to offer him. It’s no wonder that the men gathered in Beijing—three autocrats whose countries collectively point hundreds of nuclear weapons at the United States—boldly act as if they don’t even think about Trump or the country he leads,” The Atlantic summarizes.

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