AMERICAN HEGEMONY

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The United States’ U-turn on values, priorities, and ideology under Trump: can it be trusted?

12/05/202620/05/2026

Can the United States truly reverse the ideological architecture it spent decades constructing, or is Trump’s “U-turn” merely a strategic rebranding of enduring American hegemony and geopolitical continuity?

Banksy’s “Napalm”: nine-year-old Kim Phúc, burned by U.S. napalm in Vietnam, flanked by Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald

What have the Americans ever done for us?

31/03/202615/04/2026

From Hiroshima to Guantánamo, from Guatemala to Iraq: as American hegemony fractures loudly and in real time, history demands we finally ask what the world’s last empire is now leaving behind — and for whom

AMERICAN HEGEMONY

The United States’ U-turn on values, priorities, and ideology under Trump: can it be trusted?

What have the Americans ever done for us?

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