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Trump: The Deeply Disturbing Descent Into Megalomania.
Article republished by Jerry Alatalo | May 18, 2026
[Editor’s note: Lawrence S. Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press). Please share the article far and wide. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you very much. Peace.]
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The Man Who Seeks to Rule the World
May 18, 2026
tags: authoritarianism, Board of Peace, international security, military spending, Trump, United Nations, war
The Trump-chaired “Board of Peace,” where he has veto power over all decisions, has been criticized as a corrupt enterprise and an attempt to sideline the United Nations. [White House photo]Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.
One sign, of course, is his blatant demand for the territory of other nations. Since January 2025 alone, he has suggested annexing or seizing control of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, Gaza, Venezuela, and Cuba. In addition, he has proclaimed the “Donroe Doctrine,” declaring that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
Although the NATO alliance, a collective security pact, has been the cornerstone of U.S. defense policy for the past 77 years, Trump has become a bitter critic of NATO to such a degree that its other members, aghast at this turn of events, have begun exploring the reshaping of the Western alliance without the participation of the United States.
Other actions, too, have underscored Trump’s decision to “go it alone” in world affairs. Like the foremost military conquerors of the past, Trump has been busy building up his nation’s armed forces and their weaponry. The United States is already the world’s biggest military spender, with about three times the military spending of the number two nation (China).
Nevertheless, this April Trump proposed adoption of a record $1.5 trillion U.S. military budget, with the largest annual increase ever in Pentagon funding: 42 percent. This dramatic increase does not include an expected supplemental budget for the Iran war, which could cost an additional $200 billion.
Trump’s 2027 fiscal year military budget calls for $98 billion in nuclear weapons spending, most of it to build a new generation of U.S. nuclear weapons. Having unilaterally withdrawn the United States from previous nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties with Russia and recently let the last of them lapse, he now has fewer treaty constraints on his nuclear ambitions.
Accordingly, he recently announced that he has given orders for the resumption of U.S. nuclear testing, which has not been conducted since 1992.
Furthermore, like past U.S. presidents, Trump has assumed the power to launch a nuclear war totally on his own. And he has publicly and repeatedly threatened to do so.
Although the U.S. Constitution gives Congress―and not the President―the authority to declare war, Trump has shown no hesitation at sending U.S. armed forces into combat. In a little more than a year, without so much as consulting Congress, he ordered the obliteration bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, the destruction of dozens of suspect boats and their crews, the bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president, a naval blockade of Cuba, and―jointly with Israel―a devasting war upon Iran.
The latter, which has already killed thousands and wounded tens of thousands of people, displaced 3.2 million Iranians, and thrown the global economy into turmoil, is widely unpopular and continues today. Queried in January 2026 about such international actions, Trump brushed aside international law and said that he relied solely on his own opinion, which was “the only thing that can stop me.”
Not surprisingly, Trump has no use for the United Nations and most other international organizations, and has worked zealously to cripple them. Since his second term began, he has had the U.S. government withdraw from such key UN agencies as the World Health Organization, the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Relief and Works Agency, and UNESCO. In addition, the Trump administration has imposed severe sanctions on the International Criminal Court and its top officials.
U.S. funding cuts for the United Nations have been severe. In July 2025, the Trump administration pushed rescissions legislation through the Republican-controlled Congress that pulled back $1 billion in funding previously allocated to the world organization, with devastating effects on a broad variety of programs, including UNICEF, the UN Environment Program, and the UN Fund for Victims of Torture.
Furthermore, the administration refused to make its mandated dues payments to the United Nations, running up a debt to it―by far the world’s largest―of nearly $4 billion. As a result, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned in February 2026 that the world body faced “imminent financial collapse.”
On September 23, 2025, Trump’s hostility toward the United Nations spilled over into what Le Monde called “a blistering speech” during his first UN General Assembly appearance since his re-election. In what the French newspaper termed a “full-frontal attack on the global organization,” Trump condemned it for “empty words,” failing to assist him in the seven wars that he claimed to have ended, and for “funding an assault” by refugees on Western nations. He also depicted climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.”
Although it’s tempting to regard this behavior as reflecting an overheated nationalism, the remarkable degree to which Trump regards himself as the savior of the world suggests a more personal lust for supreme power.
The Trump-centered vision of the world is exemplified by his creation, soon thereafter, of an international “Board of Peace.” Although the Board’s initial activity was a peace project for Gaza, its charter called for “a more nimble and effective international peace-building body,” which―together with Trump’s remarks―has led disgruntled European officials to describe it as a substitute for the United Nations.
Trump, who appointed himself lifetime chair of the Board of Peace, would decide which nations could join the Board (with those paying $1 billion or more becoming permanent Board members) and which members could join the Executive Board (which would implement the decisions of the Board of Peace). The power to veto decisions of the Executive Board was granted by Trump . . . to Trump!
This descent into megalomania is deeply disturbing, for the dangers to the world, and even to human survival, are sharply enhanced by one-man rule, and even by one-nation rule.
How long will it take to recognize that international security requires the sharing of power by all people and nations in the human community?
(Source: PeaceandHealthBlog.com)
#BoardOfPeace #DonaldTrump #DonroeDoctrine #History #MentalHealth #NuclearDisarmament #Philosophy #Psychology #UnitedNations -
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Historians’ rankings of America’s best and worst foreign-policy decisions show the U.S. succeeded when it led cooperatively through multilateral institutions and failed when it turned inward or went rogue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/02/02/world/best-and-worst-us-foreign-policy-decisions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #marshallplan #nato #un #brettonwoods #worldbank #imf #gatt #wto #treatyofversailles #parisagreement #monroedoctrine #donroedoctrine #iraqinvasion #donaldtrump
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What many saw as a brazen abduction of Nicolas Maduro, Trump pitches as proof of revived US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, dubbing it the "Donroe Doctrine" in echo of the 1823 Monroe Doctrine. But does the world still fit Monroe’s assumptions? Here’s what the numbers say.
Read on HT news app: https://www.hindustantimes.com/editors-pick/can-donroe-be-a-geopolitical-doctrine-number-theory-101768793967192.html
#NicolasMaduro #Maduro #Trump #Donroe #DonroeDoctrine #Monroe #Geopolitics #WesternHemisphere #LatinAmerica #DataViz #Venezuela
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The #DonroeDoctrine appears to be inspired by #Risk. The board game.
Coincidence or dumb timeline?
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#Trump Foreign Policy.
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His 'Donroe' atavism fits with his other primitive throwback policies, from tariffs (recalling the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 that deepened the Great Depression) to immigration, racial discrimination and restriction (recalling the Johnson-Reed Act of 1924 excluding southern and eastern Europeans and barring Asians)."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
#Trump #economy #tariffs #TradeWar #immigrants #Venezuela #Greenland #oil #Iran #affordability #DonroeDoctrine
/9https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/17/americans-on-trump-foreign-policy
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The #DonroeDoctrine is here. After capturing #Maduro, Trump’s "American pre-eminence" targets the #PanamaCanal, #Greenland, #Mexico, #Columbia, #Nicaragua, #Nigeria, #Cuba… and bombs #Nigeria, #Iran, #Syria, #Yemen. 20th Century Diplomacy is out; return of Imperialism is in. Disaster!
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The #DonroeDoctrine is here. After capturing #Maduro, Trump’s "American pre-eminence" targets the #PanamaCanal, #Greenland, #Mexico, #Columbia, #Nicaragua, #Nigeria, #Cuba… and bombs #Nigeria, #Iran, #Syria, #Yemen. 20th Century Diplomacy is out; return of Imperialism is in. Disaster!
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The inspiration is the 19th cent #MonroeDoctrine that prioritized #USsupremacy in the #WesternHemisphere & which #Trump has embraced & renamed the “#DonroeDoctrine.”
Experts say that while the revival of this playbook may have unnerved some #US #allies, it could also serve the interests of #Russia, locked in a war in #Ukraine, a former Soviet republic, & #China, which has long had its sights set on #Taiwan.
#MafiaState #imperialism #geopolitics #NewWorldOrder #law #WarPowers #InternationalLaw
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The U.S. seizure of Venezuela’s leader shows that Washington is not retreating into a tidy world of spheres of influence but is instead using raw power to challenge rivals and weaken the rules-based order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/01/13/world/us-sphere-of-influence-is-big/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #venezuela #nicolasmaduro #us #russia #china #taiwan #ukraine #donroedoctrine #monroedoctrine #vladimirputin #latinamerica
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See how their precious and hallowed Constitution stopped all this....🙄
#Trump #ClanOfPeadophiles #USPOL #USPOLITICS #DonroeDoctrine #Fascism #Imperialism
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“Venezuela and the logic of US decline”
by Rares Cocilnau in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@[email protected]
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@[email protected]“Trump, albeit unwittingly, has placed the US on the path of decline, one in which imperial power is no longer mediated through neat institutional consensus or economic integration, but increasingly asserted through militarisation and coercion”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/08/venezuela-us-decline/
#Press #US #Trump #Empire #Coercion #Decline #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine #Hegemony #China #Contradiction
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This is the truth of the American regime, a truth the cowards here in Westminster would rather the public not know about.
"Special Relationship" they ooze, in defence of the Paedophile.#USPOL #USPOLITICS #ReneeNicoleGood #ICE #ICEMUSTBEDESTROYED #DonroeDoctrine #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #ClanOfPaedophiles
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Keir Starmer's 'great friend' there....
#Trump #DonroeDoctrine #Venezuela #USPOL #USPOLITICS #KeirStarmer #Starmer #GOP #Dems -
Won't he just ignore this though?
Does it have teeth?https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/trump-venezuela-senate-vote
#USPOL #USPOLITICS #Venezuela #DonroeDoctrine #trump #imperialism #USSenate #USCongress
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This is the 'Freedom' the Paedophile in Chief wants for the United Kingdom...and Keir Starmer will hand it all to him for a kind word...
#Venezuela #ClanOfPeadophiles #USPOL #USPOLITICS #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #Colonialism #Imperialism #DonroeDoctrine
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"Winter weather would also make any operation very difficult, he said. “I hope the Europeans can convince the US that we will indeed shoot back,” he said. “US soldiers would come back to the US in body bags.”
#ClanOfPeadophiles #DonroeDoctrine #trump #Greenland #Colonialism #Denmark #EUPOL #USPOL #USPOLITICS #NATO
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They never did this for Ukraine or Europe, but they'd do it for the Paedophile In Chief?
Is anybody in Westminster going to call this out?
#ClanOfPaedophiles #Trump #USMiltary #Russia #OilWars #DonroeDoctrine #WWIII #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS
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‘What an #Authoritarian #Oligarchy Looks Like’: #Trump Says #OilExecs Tipped Off About #Venezuela Attack
“I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,” said one critic. “He did not inform #Congress but he’s saying he informed the #OilCompanies.”
by Jon Queally
Jan 05, 2026Excerpt: " 'I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,' said Fred Wellman, an Army combat veteran now running for Congress as a Democrat in Missouri. 'He did not inform Congress, but he’s saying he informed the oil companies.'
" 'Keep in mind who he means,' Wellman added. 'The #billionaire #MegaDonor that just got control of #Citgo. Our service members were used directly to move the interests of Trump’s #donors.'
" 'The oil companies were notified before Congress,' said Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health. 'This is what an authoritarian oligarchy looks like.' "
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-says-oil-companies-tipped-off-venezuela#MoronDoctrine #Oiligarchy #PaulSinger #USPol #WorldPol #DonroeDoctrine #USImperialism #NoNewWars #NoWar #WarMongers #USWarCrimes #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchs
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Without even a vote on it, Keir Starmer is bending the knee to a Mafia State that means us harm.
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #WWIII #ClanOfPaedophiles #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #DonroeDoctrine #Qusiling #Appeasement
