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America at the Edge of the Abyss
A Week That Shattered the Free World
It wasn’t an earthquake or a war that erased America overnight. It wasn’t an external enemy, a foreign invader, or a catastrophe. It was a vote. A democratic decision that turned the world’s beacon of democracy into a shadow of itself.
Democracy has never been perfect — only perfectible. But there is a vast difference between an imperfect system and a nation deliberately plunged into chaos. And right now, America is gone. Not in name, not on maps, but in every way that mattered.
The America of the Founding Fathers — gone.
The America of laws, of reason, of integrity — gone.
The America of world-class universities, of technological revolutions, of freedom and opportunity — consumed in a cloud of deception and madness.
What has replaced it? A government built on lies. A Secretary of State who distorts reality. A President who threatens allies while cozying up to war criminals. A nation that once led the free world now blackmails the very countries that counted on its leadership.
Donald Trump has unleashed the dogs of war — Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Elon Musk — each echoing his propaganda, his venom, his calculated destruction of the transatlantic alliance. The same rhetoric. The same attacks. The same…
