At the peak of the U.S. and Israel strikes in Iran, the liberal propaganda machine domesticates the idea of American military defeat in the Middle East. “We are losing this war”, and “… geopolitical failure” are CNN and MSNBC’s prevailing talking points, summarizing the legacy media’s narrative. In Europe, the smoldering Anti-American spirits are re-inflamed: “Arbiter of Chaos”, “…road to a great barbarism”, and “Worse than the Law of the Jungle” are some of the leading European headlines on the war.
Today, the dizzying speed of world events, the deluge of information, and the media’s transition from arbiters of fact to architects of narrative all blur the big picture and take away the fundamental question: Whither the West? I am less concerned by the ideological subversion of the liberal media — acting as a diplomatic rearguard for a genocidal regime — than by the deepening pathology it reveals: a suicidal push by the American Left and the European mainstream in a direction diametrically opposed to their societies’ interests. The trigger for their inversion on Iran’s war is clear — hatred of Trump.
Such a fall is not just a tactical error, but an inevitable result of a decade-long civilizational retreat. As an American immigrant from Bulgaria, I am now doubly troubled: both the U.S. and Europe abandon common sense to an extent surpassing my nightmares from behind the Iron Curtain. Since 2016, it has been painful to watch part of America battle every notion of normality. The shockwaves of this ideological war shake the other side of the Atlantic. The name “Trump” triggers the European mainstream exactly as the radical Democrats at home.
We saw a similar polarization during the Reagan era, though then the homegrown Anti-American “useful idiots” were fewer. Reagan built his legacy by defeating a foreign threat. Today, Trump is dealing with a lethal mutation of the same virus, endangering the fabric of society from within. Forty years apart, both presidents are viciously attacked and mocked by the Left and their media.
Europe, on its part, seems unable to exit the spiral of historical decline. In the last century, it was saved by the U.S. three times — from itself in WWI and WWII, and from communist takeover during the Cold War. The Modern Era European political tradition — regardless of the form of government — has always aimed to keep power in the hands of the entitled. The self-reproducing governing class has led the Old Continent to two world wars, some 100 million deaths, the Holocaust, the rise of Nazism and Socialism, and is now turning the once Great Europe into its mournful caricature.
Despite the deepening political, economic, and identity crisis, Europe still clings to its “guided” democracy. The embrace of the perfidious elitist concept of “professional political class” has long held Europeans hostage to controlled freedom, permitted speech, and ideological restrictions — in contrast to the “We the People” foundation of American politics and public life. That’s why today, the onetime cradle of freedom is strikingly close to China: both are ruled by unelected bureaucrats, define boundaries of allowed ideas, fight “disinformation,” and prosecute for speech crimes.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the Obama/Biden era politics aimed at a similar reality, renouncing the Founding Fathers’ anti-elitist concept of self-governance and constitutional republic. It was a literal “return to Europe” push — the Mayflower was turning back in history as a woke entertainment cruise, decorated with pride flags, “Free Palestine” banners, and “No Kings” placards. The passengers are angry descendants of the Pilgrims, offended by Christianity, burning the Stars and Stripes while apologizing for the land they stand on.
On the European shore, they are welcomed by veiled girls from Marseille and turbaned men from Birmingham, with “No to Hate Speech“ badges. Behind them, paleface “Gays for Gaza,” wearing Ukrainian attire, are chanting Bono’s “American Obituary.” All are hugging; the passengers of the returning Mayflower hand their hosts an inlaid Quran as a present from the mayor of New York; at the end, they all burn an orange-haired doll together.
In America, this “Back to Europe” ritual suicide was suddenly disrupted by Trump. On the other side of the Atlantic, the greeters still wait, cursing his name.
Unlike the U.S., where the far Left is losing and shrinking its base, the European decay is no longer confined to its political elite. For decades, its “career politicians” were wrong on everything: sacrificed the economy to the green cult, neglected its military defense, and opened the floodgates of uncontrolled immigration. Their Middle East policy was a laughingstock, and the stance on Iran’s nuclear ambitions — an utter folly, endangering the world. Yet, as if gripped by Stockholm Syndrome, the broader European mainstream continues to applaud the current generation of political buffoons while cursing the only Western leader who has the vision, courage, and determination to fight their fight.
Today, the anti-American propaganda inundates the Old Continent. Still, I don’t view the agreeing Europeans as mere propaganda victims. They have all the information in the world and yet, always side with those in the States who fight for open borders, defend rapists from deportation, support gender affirming surgeries for minors, and believe that men can get pregnant. In the age of infinite knowledge, the conjoined ideological twins on both sides of the Atlantic prove how dangerous Artificial Intelligence (AI) could be when not using the natural one (NI). Now, their hope is in “No Brains” rallies and still-fighting ayatollahs.
The anti-Trump madness in the U.S. and Europe looks like an ancient death cult — a complete break with reality, fixation on an imaginary world, and indifference to the coming end. Shattering the elites’ managed decline, Trump has forced the West to choose: Healing or cursing the cure; deepening irrelevance, or a victorious return to the path of hope, prosperity, and common sense; civilizational restoration, or “safe” management of the final surrender.
Bringing the U.S. and Europe to this choice has already made Trump, with all his flaws, the most consequential political figure of our lifetime.
The decision is ours.
