On January 7, 2026 Donald Trump gave an exclusive interview to the New York Times. In the two-hour long soliloquy of a madman, he made it absolutely clear the sole limit on his presidential authority in foreign policy is his personal judgment, downplaying international law and global opinion.
Trump leaves nothing Unsaid
When asked about constraints on his power as commander-in-chief, Trump replied: “Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.” He emphasized U.S. power over laws or treaties, saying national strength—not agreements—should govern global interactions. Trump declared, “I don’t need international law”. Trump portrayed international norms as “unnecessary encumbrances on a superpower,” dismissing concerns that rivals like Xi Jinping or Putin might mirror this approach. In simple words, it means that the US dominance via military, economic, or political leverage, unbound by multilateral constraints or foreign views.
After this, does anything remain to be said about the real intentions of this man? He has gone absolutely mad with power. He is not the proverbial bull in a china shop; he is a monkey with an AK-47 rifle in his hands with an unlimited supply of ammunition—the worst part of it; the monkey thinks that he is actually Godzilla!
But, to be fair to this madman, America has always been like that—the only difference is that the former presidents were not so gruff.
How America turned Contempt for Law into a Global Operating System
The United States likes to describe itself as a reluctant superpower, dragged kicking and screaming into global responsibility by history’s misfortune. It did not seek empire, we are told; empire sought it. It did not want to police the world; the world misbehaved. It did not desire war; war kept knocking on the door, uninvited but unavoidable.
This is a fairy tale—one so elaborate, so endlessly repeated that it has hardened into orthodoxy. In this orthodoxy, American violence is always reactive, never initiatory; always defensive, never predatory; always moral, even when catastrophic. The deaths are regrettable. The destruction is unfortunate. The law is flexible. The intent is pure. American would put the coyest Victorian maiden to shame.
What is never admitted—because admission would collapse the entire edifice—is that the United States has, for over seven decades, behaved as if international law were a set of suggestions written for other people. Its foreign policy is not rule-based but power-based, with rules deployed tactically as weapons rather than constraints. Treaties are tools. Norms are talking points. Moral language is camouflage.
This is not a story of occasional excess or tragic miscalculation. It is a story of structural arrogance, of an empire so convinced of its righteousness that it sees no contradiction between preaching law and practicing lawlessness.
Imagine this scene: Uncle Sam, donning a cowboy hat and a badge he pinned on himself, strutting across the international stage like a vigilante in a C-grade Western flick. Uncle Sam is the judge, jury, and executioner all rolled into one, dispensing “justice” with drone strikes, economic sanctions, and the occasional blatant kidnapping. Who needs international opinion when you’ve got the mightiest military on Earth? The rules? Those are for the little guys—the ones without nukes or a veto at the UN.
In this farce of global governance, America plays the hero while scripting the plot to ensure everyone else ends up as the villain. And if the world boos? Well, that’s just “fake news” from jealous haters.
Let’s shred the Star-Spangled Banner and expose the hypocrisy, the hubris, and the havoc wreaked in the name of “national interest.” Because when might makes right, the rest of us are left picking up the pieces—or dodging the bombs.
America’s ‘danse macabre’ (French for “Dance of Death”) started right after the Second World War and continues relentlessly till date with no end in sight until someone unleashes the nukes on them.
Korea: The War That Proved You Can Erase a Country and Still Call Yourself Civilised
The Korean War occupies a strange place in American memory. It is “forgotten,” which is another way of saying it is inconvenient. Between 1950 and 1953, the United States conducted a bombing campaign so comprehensive that it would today trigger endless war crimes investigations—if it had been carried out by anyone else. According to U.S. Air Force assessments, nearly every major city in North Korea was destroyed. By the end, pilots reported that there were no viable targets left. Everything that could burn had burned. The Korean War wasn’t just a “police action”; it was a master class in unchecked aggression. Ignoring the complexities of a civil war, the U.S. steamrolled in under a UN banner it basically hijacked, dropping more bombs on North Korea than in the entire Pacific theatre of World War II. Civilian casualties? A whopping 2-3 million, with villages napalmed into oblivion and dams bombed to flood farmlands, starving populations in a tactic straight out of scorched-earth playbook.
This was not collateral damage. It was deliberate strategy. Dams were bombed to flood agricultural land, ensuring famine. Civilian infrastructure was systematically targeted. Entire populations were displaced. USAF Gen. Curtis LeMay, who would later oversee nuclear bombing strategies, openly acknowledged that the objective had been annihilation, not containment.
And yet, this campaign produced no reckoning. No tribunal. No soul-searching. A fragile truce left Korea divided and the U.S. with permanent bases; all while claiming victory over “communist aggression.” Satirically speaking, it was like invading your neighbour’s barbecue because you didn’t like their grill, then declaring the hot dogs yours forever. Korean War established a precedent that would echo for decades: mass civilian destruction is acceptable if wrapped in the language of necessity. The Korean War was not an anomaly. It was a prototype.
The Original Sin of Vietnam: Civilian Slaughter, Napalm, Lies, and the Normalization of Impunity
Vietnam (1955-1975) was the crown jewel of American overreach. Propping up a corrupt South Vietnamese regime against a nationalist insurgency, the U.S. escalated from “advisors” to full-blown invasion, fabricating the Gulf of Tonkin incident to justify it all. Vietnam was not merely a military disaster. It was a philosophical one. The United States entered Vietnam with confidence and left in humiliation, but the true legacy of the war lies not in its outcome but in the methods it normalized. Vietnam taught American power that facts were optional.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident refers to a naval confrontation in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam, which led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. The core of the lie concerned the alleged second attack on August 4, 1964, involving the destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy. Subsequent declassified documents, including a 2005 internal National Security Agency (NSA) report, confirmed that this attack had never happened. The Tonkin Gulf incident served as the pretext for escalation. Napalm burned villages into memory. Agent Orange poisoned land and people for generations. Free-fire zones turned geography itself into a death sentence.
The genius of Vietnam-era propaganda was not that it denied violence, but that it abstracted it. Body counts replaced human beings. Charts replaced ethics. A war that was visibly failing on the ground was perpetually “turning a corner” in press briefings.
Vietnam’s official 1995 figures estimate around 1.1 million North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters were killed, with approximately 2 million total Vietnamese civilians also perishing. U.S. bombing (Operation Rolling Thunder) severely damaged North Vietnam, destroying 65% of oil storage, 59% of power plants, and 55% of major bridges. Herbicides, including Agent Orange and Blue, poisoned farmland, leading to malnutrition and long-term ecological damage. In My Lai massacres women and children were gunned down like targets in a shooting gallery.
When the Pentagon Papers exposed the scale of deception, the response was not repentance but irritation—irritation that the machinery of narrative control had malfunctioned. Vietnam did not end America’s appetite for intervention. It refined it.
And all this for what? To “contain communism” in a war that killed 58,000 Americans and achieved zilch except propping up the military-industrial complex. The Paris Peace Accords? A face-saving exit that ignored the inevitable fall of Saigon. America’s “domino theory” proved as flimsy as a house of cards in a hurricane, but the real crime was the impunity—war crimes brushed under the rug, with no apologies, just fascinating Hollywood films turning defeat into noble tragedy. Who hasn’t watched Rambo’s First Blood: Part II? If this isn’t the blueprint for “might is right,” what is?
Coups, Not Constitutions: CIA’s Global Laboratory
The United States insists that it stands for democracy. History suggests that what it stands for is predictability. When guns don’t speak, spymasters do the trick. May be someone influential argued: Why bother with overt invasions when you can play puppet master from the shadows? Enter the CIA, America’s not-so-secret society of regime-change enthusiasts, turning sovereign nations into their personal chessboard. In each case, the crime was not tyranny but independence. These were not defensive actions. They were pre-emptive punishments—warnings to other nations that sovereignty would be respected only insofar as it aligned with American interests.
Throughout the Cold War, the United States treated the region as a private security zone. Dictators were supported, trained, and funded. Death squads operated with impunity. Torture was institutionalized. Disappearances were normalized.
When tens of thousands were killed in El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, and beyond, Washington spoke the language of stability. When journalists documented atrocities, they were accused of ideological bias. When survivors demanded justice, they were told to move on.
The irony was almost elegant: the same United States that preached human rights globally spent decades ensuring they were systematically violated locally.
For long, this unholy business was kept top secret. But, I must grant one thing to the Americans. They commit even their sins methodically. The CIA had produced a full manual titled “Psychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare” in 1983, primarily for training Nicaraguan Contras during the conflict against the Sandinista government. The manual details using professional criminals as agitators to manipulate mass meetings into violence, creating “martyrs” by provoking police responses, and developing general anger that can be triggered into widespread unrest. Its contents were declassified (or rather, leaked) in October 1984, after Nicaragua requested its distribution at the UN bringing it into public international discourse.
Iran 1953: Operation Ajax, where the U.S. and UK orchestrated the overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh for daring to nationalize oil. Fake riots, bribed mullahs, and a compliant Shah installed—voila, decades of repression and blowback, culminating in the 1979 revolution. Moral justification? Zilch; it was all about Big Oil’s profits. Satirically, it’s like robbing your neighbor’s fridge because you fancy their milk, then wondering why they hate you.
Guatemala 1954: President Jacobo Árbenz’s land reforms threatened United Fruit Company’s banana empire, so the CIA armed exiles, bombed the capital, and installed a military dictator. Result? A 36-year civil war, 200,000 dead, including genocide against Maya indigenous people.
Congo 1960: Patrice Lumumba, Africa’s anti-colonial hope, assassinated with CIA backing to prevent Soviet influence—ushering in Mobutu’s kleptocracy and endless misery.
Indonesia 1965: The CIA provided kill lists to General Suharto, enabling the slaughter of up to a million suspected communists in a coup against Sukarno.
Latin America: It was the CIA’s favourite playground. From the Bay of Pigs fiasco in Cuba (1961) to supporting death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua’s Contras (1980s), engineering coups in Brazil (1964), Argentina (1976), and beyond. In Chile (1973), Salvador Allende’s socialist government toppled in a U.S.-backed bloodbath, installing Pinochet’s torture regime—3,000 disappeared, all for copper mines and neoliberal experiments. Add covert ops in Honduras, Bolivia, and Uruguay—instigating riots, funding paramilitaries, and propping up dictators. The latest in the series is Venezuela. No moral high ground here; just raw power plays disguised as anti-communism. If America were a doctor, its cure for “instability” would be a lethal injection of chaos.
Proxy Jihad and Blowback: Propping Mujahideen → Taliban → 20-Year Farce
Ah, the art of arming your enemies to fight your other enemies—America’s gift that keeps on giving. Operation Cyclone (1979-1989): The CIA funnelled billions in arms and cash to Afghan Mujahideen to bleed the Soviets dry. Osama bin Laden? A U.S.-backed “freedom fighter” back then, hobnobbing with Reagan’s proxies. An they also made a great Hollywood film like Rambo III on it.
When the Soviets withdrew, Washington lost interest. Afghanistan was abandoned—not rebuilt, not stabilized, not even acknowledged. The chaos that followed was predictable and predicted. The emergence of the Taliban was not an accident. It was the logical consequence of deliberate policy.
Fast-forward to 9/11: America invades Afghanistan (2001-2021), spending $2 trillion, losing 2,400 troops, and killing 176,000 civilians in a quagmire of nation-building nonsense. Evidence of Osama in Afghanistan? Thin at best; he was chilling in Pakistan, America’s “ally.” The 20-year farce ended in humiliating withdrawal, Taliban back in power—full circle of blowback. Twenty years of war ended not with victory or defeat, but with abandonment dressed as pragmatism.
But why stop at Afghanistan? The U.S. helped create ISIS precursors by arming Syrian rebels, including jihadists, against Assad—only to bomb them later.
And remember Jolani (or Jawlani)? The HTS leader with a $10 million U.S. bounty in 2017, labelled a terrorist. By 2024, after Assad’s fall, America scraps the bounty, meets him in Damascus, and props him up as Syria’s “president.” From dreaded terrorist to White House guest—talk about revolving doors of moral labels. It’s satirical gold: Arm the radicals, fight them, then ally with them when convenient. Blowback? Just the price of “strategic interests.”
The United States’ relationship with terrorism is not ethical; it is transactional. Militants are terrorists when they oppose American objectives. They become “rebels,” “moderates,” or “partners” when they align with them. Jolani’s transformation from bounty target to political actor is merely the latest example. Violence does not offend Washington. Unapproved violence does.
Iraq: The Lie That Killed a Million
If hypocrisy had a monument, it’d be the Iraq War (2003-2011). Hans Blix, UN weapons inspector, scoured Iraq for WMDs—found zilch. But facts? Who cares? America manufactured the bogeyman: Colin Powell’s vial of “anthrax” at the UN, bogus yellowcake uranium claims, and “mobile labs” that were helium balloon inflators. Ignoring UN protests, the U.S. invaded, toppling Saddam (whom they once armed against Iran) in a shock-and-awe spectacle. Result? Over a million Iraqi deaths, cities reduced to rubble, Abu Ghraib torture horrors, and ISIS rising from the ashes.
Postwar “reconstruction”? A looting spree for Halliburton cronies (a phrase used to allege cronyism, war profiteering, and conflicts of interest involving U.S. government officials and the corporation Halliburton, particularly during the George W. Bush administration and the Iraq War), with billions vanishing into corruption. No WMDs found—oops, but no apologies. The UN? Contemptuously bypassed, treaties like the Geneva Conventions shredded in secret prisons. Moral grounds? None; it was oil, revenge, and Neocons’ wet dream of remaking the Middle East. Satirically, it’s like accusing your neighbour of hiding weapons, breaking in, trashing the place, and then charging them for clean-up.
Abductions, Renditions, and Pirate Justice
America’s justice system: If you can’t extradite, just kidnap. Easy, isn’t it?
Panama 1989: Invasion to snag Manuel Noriega, a former CIA asset turned drug lord. Thousands dead in “Operation Just Cause”—just cause for what, exactly? Noriega’s trial? Tainted by U.S. payoffs to witnesses. Then came extraordinary renditions post-9/11 (transfer of a person from one state’s jurisdiction to another’s): Snatching suspects worldwide, flying them to black sites for torture. Maher Arar, a Canadian, renditioned to Syria—tortured for a year, innocent. Khalid El-Masri, German, kidnapped to Afghanistan—sodomized, beaten, released when mistaken identity dawned.
Maduro: Fast-forward to Maduro’s recent and blatant abduction in 2026: U.S. strikes on Caracas, Delta Force raid—pure piracy. The US Department of Justice now admits “Cartel of the Suns” isn’t real, just a “patronage system.” But facts didn’t stop the invasion.
Add high-seas hijackings: Seizing Russian-flagged tankers linked to Venezuela, ignoring maritime law.
Moral justification? Zero; it’s gangster diplomacy, where America grabs what it wants, treaties be damned.
Sanctions, Sieges, and Economic Warfare
There is yet another school of thought. Why bomb when you can starve? It’s economic waterboarding—drown the people until the government gasps for air. Sanctions are America’s weapon of mass deprivation.
Cuba: 60+ years of embargo, crippling an island for daring socialism—millions suffer, no regime change.
Iran: Sanctions post-nuclear deal withdrawal, punishing civilians for leaders’ sins.
Venezuela: “Maximum pressure” starved millions, exacerbated migration—yet Maduro clung on until kidnapped.
Iraq pre-2003: UN sanctions killed 500,000 children; Madeleine Albright deemed it “worth it.”
Rules are for Thee, Not for Me
America loves rules—when others follow them.
ICC: U.S. unsigned, threatens sanctions on judges probing American crimes.
UN: Vetoes resolutions criticizing Israel 45+ times, ignores Nicaragua ruling (1986) on mining harbors—paid no reparations.
Treaties: Withdraws from Paris Accord, JCPOA, INF—then cries foul when others bend rules.
Guantanamo: Indefinite detention, torture—breaching Geneva Conventions. Drone strikes: Extrajudicial killings worldwide, civilians as “collateral.” Cluster bombs in Yemen, Laos remnants still maiming. The hypocrisy? America lectures on human rights while running black sites. Satirically, it’s the pot calling the kettle black—while melting the kettle for scrap.
Neo-imperialism: “National Interest” as Universal License
“National interest”—code for “we want it, so it’s ours.” There is a joke plus a meme doing the rounds on social media. It says that if you have oil and if you don’t have nuclear weapons, the oil is America’s.
Greenland: Trump threatens annexation, “easy or hard way”—ignoring Danish sovereignty. Why? Arctic resources, bases.
High-seas piracy: Seizing Russian tankers, flouting maritime law.
Shipping lanes: South China Sea patrols, ignoring own UNCLOS non-ratification.
Panama Canal: Trump eyes “reclamation.”
Venezuela: Maduro snatched for “drugs,” but really oil.
Interventions in Libya (2011): NATO-led chaos, slave markets ensue.
Yemen support: Arms for Saudis’ famine-inducing war.
Drone wars in Somalia, Pakistan—sovereignty? What’s that?
Add covert ops: Instigating Hong Kong riots, Ukraine Colour Revolution.
Moral? Nil; it’s empire-building, the flimsy pretext of “spreading democracy” via destruction.
Behold the Empire without a Mirror
The United States does not merely ignore the mirror. It shatters it—and calls the shards freedom. America, gazing at its reflection in a funhouse of delusions, sees only exceptionalism while the world sees a bully. From Korea’s napalm rains to Maduro’s abduction, the pattern’s clear: Rules bend to might, morality’s a prop for the propaganda machine. No self-reflection, just endless interventions, coups, and economic sieges—all justified by contrived threats.
The joke? A nation preaching liberty while chaining the globe, claiming to fight monsters while becoming one. Morally? It’s bankrupt, a rogue state cloaked in stars and stripes. Until America finds that mirror, the world pays the price—in blood, treasure, and lost trust. But hey, freedom is not free—unless you’re the one dropping the bombs.
Why America must be destroyed
I have taken you on whirlwind tour of the sins of America. One article cannot do full justice to it. It actually needs volumes. If the United States were judged by the standards it applies to others, it would be sanctioned, isolated, indicted, and condemned. Its leaders would be fugitives. Its doctrines would be exhibits. Instead, it writes the rules.
Rest assured, they will continue to commit even greater sins with complete impunity in the future also. The question is what can you do about it? Haul them before the UN? Bullshit. Forget about it. America does not care tow hoots about it. As I had explained in an earlier article titled ‘The UN is a huge farce and should be disbanded’, the UN is more impotent than the most desperate patient of erectile dysfunction waiting inside a quack’s clinic, hoping for a magic potion. Beg before it; surrender your dignity before it? Well, you might try it but beware of the domestic public opinion and the next election. Mortgage your country’s economic interests to it? Do it at your own peril.
USA is nobody’s friend. They propped up the Taliban and the Mujahideen to fight the Soviets when it suited them. Then they fought a two decades long disastrous war against the Taliban. Muhammad al-Jawlani carried a bounty of $10 million on his head. A tweet of the US Embassy in Syria dated May 15, 2017 carried a photo of Muhammad al-Jawlani with the caption ‘Stop this terrorist’, and said “We remain committed to bringing leading AQS figures in HTS to justice. #Syria”. His terrorist past is now both forgotten and forgiven. Now he is not just the recognized president of Syria, he is a partner, friend and associate of the USA. In entire human history, have you ever seen such despicable hypocrisy, opportunism and absolute lack of morals?
Take it from me. The USA understands only one language—that of force. The bully’s naked dance can be stopped only if it is militarily not just defeated but decisively defeated. Now, given its awesome military power, America cannot be defeated in a conventional war.
The only way to contain the marauding USA from raping the world is to destroy it completely in a nuclear war. The destruction has to be complete so that the snake does not rear its head again.
I am acutely aware; many readers would immediately jump that this would plunge the world into the Third World War. I know that. So be it. But I still insist on it because I strongly believe in the Roman maxim ‘fiat justitia ruat caelum’ (justice must be done, the universe may perish).
There will be heavy casualties and massive destruction alright but a nuclear war can be fought and won. In my next article ‘How to fight, survive and win Third World War’ I will disclose to you how Soviet strategists and even the Americans themselves had prepared for this. Contrary to popular perceptions, there shall be no Nuclear Winter and the human civilization will survive a nuclear war. If destruction is the price of self-respect and honour, I am prepared to pay it.
