Observing the reality around us, it is hard to defy the following suggestion: here the sinister Trump ghost lurks around each corner and pops out like a playful clown's head mounted on a spring, which hits us impertinently after beginning the age of the box.
All you request to do is contact the first better news average to find out. Hence, the global situation irritates observers with its unpredictiveness, and analysts agree that the reason is the policy of the current White home administration not to compose a more explicit narcissistic and impetuous character of the president. We miss the peace and give in to a reasonably common opinion in the media that it will be essential to clean up and it will take a long time for the situation to return to normal.
Tempting Delusion
Only, is this in reality and do we not yield to the illusion of our comfort of thought? It is much harder to admit that possibly we will not return to average (at least in the foreseeable future) due to the fact that the planet has fallen out of balance and predictability. This kind of reflection fits into the more general thesis on the dusk of global order that we have known from fresh past and replacing it with a state that Thomas Hobbes described with a metaphor of "war of all", although there are also allegories describing the current unpredictability of the multipolar planet to mention to even popular "black swans" Nicholas Taleb, as well as those that do not sound sinister to us – simply to take matters into their own hands and not look at others.
In fact, 1 can be tempted to diagnose that Donald Trump It is not the origin at all, but the consequence of the current crisis (loss of balance) which has its origins in erstwhile events, and even in the full causal cycle, which led us to a point from which it is hard to emerge. The US president fits the allegory that he is neither a illness nor a cure, that he is alternatively a thermometer/ barometer which faithfully shows (and sometimes even parody) the state of our politics and our civilization resembling the state of nature. In any case, with its decisions hitting the order (let us remind you that the US has already declared 66 global agreements) the current state of Trump boiling is perfectly in tune.
What has led to global policy corruption?
So what is the problem? surely the dominance of the West is crushing, and along with it the universalist swarms of the construction of the "Pax Americana", due to the fact that against this seemingly lofty and noble plan seem to protest present increasingly prominently these states, civilizations or cultural groups, which may feel harmed by the centuries-old regulation of the West and its bunchonic, although frequently implemented in good religion colonial politics. Others are storming (and waking up – to appeal to Napoleon's celebrated metaphor about Chinese), the planet is trembling in jobs, and others are not mediocre pariahs anymore, but rich, modernized and armed states. There are many fresh points in the planet present from Asia to Latin America, which do not make sense at the minute to remind the White House's tenants about them as part of a mission to redecorate the globe, and behind each of them there is any crucial reason and a historically resounding problem, which now someway comes to remind the Western planet of it - whether it will be only tiny rebels, excluded social groups or offended powers. This is of course a very simplified interpretation, but this matrix explains something.
He explains that we can no longer dream of the Western notions of liberal global law, nor sleep the righteous, due to the fact that we are tired of the exhausting course of history, in the hope that this march has come to an end, and so we deserve a well-deserved rest. These utopian views have revived and in their own way poisoned many minds of Western humanities dreaming of peace guaranteed by global institutions, hence they seemed tempting. 1 typical of specified a position was the French philosopher Montesque believing that a civilized man (but besides a nation) is able to tame possessive instincts through modern law and apolitical institutions, limiting power, and especially its division.
The clash of 2 philosophical rations
There is most likely no text better exposing the utopianity of Montescius's design, and at the same time a text to the degree of the current one, though written in 1864 as "Dialogues in Hell between Makiawel and Montescius"—pamfletu Maurice Joly showing the clash of these 2 points, reflecting the dispute very essential to the nature of the policy, the passages of which quote the last issue of Gdansk's "Political Review". I am not referring to the simplistic explanation of makiawelism as a policy of force, guile of fox or maxim “the end sanctifies means” or Montesque, who allegedly naively praises moderation, reason and virtue. Each of these philosophers is right. Neither Montescius is as kind-hearted nor Makiavili as cynical as we think.
And yet there is any power to explain Maiawel's arguments, in a situation where things don't happen as we wish. While Montescius in the work “On the Spirit of Rights” thinks about society as it should be, Maiaweli in the “Prince” as it is in reality, without beautifying and retouching, which does not mean that he supports it. He is as outraged as modern analysts, observers and Western citizens, yet he understands that politics must be taken from the inside, as if it were a participant, alternatively than a passive instructor, educator or teacher. The second may even harm, origin us to get into a blind alley, e.g. erstwhile moral arguments are imposed in a teacher's speech with the conviction of our own superiority, which will turn out to be twisted in the way of diplomacy and torpedoed by a successful compromise.
Real politics is not utilized to abuse, from where else morally correct concepts derived from textbooks of Western philosophy, ethics and law, hence it may besides be right that politicians will not be saved and all will meet in hell, like the characters of Joly's pamphlet. And yet it is worth having them in control erstwhile courageous decisions defend society from war. The author of the “Prince” focuses on the decisions of his ruler and his personality traits (virtu), which either elude or anticipate the rules. He does not preach his teachings out of love for the odor of blood, as he is accused of it, not due to the fact that he is simply a cold cynic who is betting on his own, not after all due to the fact that he is simply a philosophical ignorant man who does not realize Socrates' argument with the Trazyme, but alternatively due to the fact that there is no another option erstwhile the enemy is an ominous luck and wants to save the lives of citizens.
‘Moment of Makiawel’
Makiawel's teachings hold their actuality regardless of historical circumstances, worth knowing, which does not mean that their importance should be overestimated. It is besides possible to apply them in the explanation of the current global situation and the anticipation of unraveling the Gordian node in which the West and its – otherwise perfect – philosophical concepts looped. any analogies come up on their own. surely Europe is guarding the “reasonable” and average rights of Montescius, defending its pacta sunt servanda like a fortress. In a sense, it is understandable, due to the fact that the intention is that erstwhile a individual gives up, all decision individual will want to violate its sacred principles and its blissful peace, hence, force cannot be repaid with knowing or with questionable moral compromises.
The White House, on the another hand, represents the applicable and decision-making nature of the political mission, which is geared towards the purposes of national interest, in a way resembling the Machiawel bare force without masking these goals with the rhetoric of moral propriety, as notabene critics of American politics frequently referred to as hypocrisy until recently. Of course, there is no hypocrisy present due to the fact that Trump plays open cards and calls things by name (his interests and oil fields count). From this point of view, 1 might even be tempted to believe that in political reality the student has outgrown the master of Florence. Even references to doctrine James Monroe is John Quincy Adams from the 19th century, they do not sound very credible in Trump's mouth, for the second called not to go abroad "in search of monsters to destroy" (Adams' return). The president has repeatedly declared that he is resigning from abroad intervention, while already in his first year of office he issued orders for attacks from Iran to Yemen, from Nigeria to Venezuela, from Syria to Somalia, not to mention his interest in Greenland, Iceland or Panama, to constantly endanger with his finger, etc.
From the point of view of real politics, however, all these mistakes, shortcomings and changes of head are of small importance, as Trump is not a slave to any doctrine, although, of course, breaking the rules of the game is an annoying situation for the environment. In a sense, however, this fits into the Makiawel strategy to take on the political reality that is with its deficiency of rules and effort to outsmart it with it itself. It's like maxim. Ernst Jünger, not to complain about the era (this is an allusion to de Maistre's moralism), but to play with it for a full stake, so a small in Nietzschean. I'm not saying that this will contribute to the nonsubjective or that this trick will actually work. Who knows what happens? I simply show how this should be understood, and that the Florentine discipline can be applied to the explanation of the present global situation.
The aim is besides to effort to cut the "Gordian knots" with applicable intervention in the course of accidents, even by force imposed negotiations with "homicidal states" (when armed intervention is impossible, due to the fact that these countries, for example, have atomic weapons) and frequently with force imposed peace conditions, which Europeans will always mention to as betrayal or capitulation; the Makiawel sovereign will insist that this was essential in the circumstances in question, in order to save peace and preserve the lives of citizens.
Of course, Makiaweli is referred to as a "exceptional state" philosopher (because only by the exception of Montesque law and procedures can be suspended), while the answer to the question of whether we are actually surviving in a Makiawel state of exceptional – "policy corruption" is not as easy as we think. Although much is said about chaos, media fuel the atmosphere of war and unpredictability. However, if they asked for the opinion of observers from 20, 30, or 40 years ago, they would most likely agree that their times are dangerous and exceptional, small of which they could illustrate by suggestive examples or by the number of wars and conflicts. But there is simply a difference. The current situation fits into the model of political realism as to its rule (not our subjective feeling), as a consequence of the dusk of liberal global law and the gradual formation of multipolar/polycentric relationships, which is the consequence of historical processes characterized at the beginning of the article. So it is not so much about the number of conflicts, but about their character set by the Twilight of the Transatlantic Pax Americana and the shifting of the world's gravity point towards another formerly peripheral states and cultures, each of which present demands its own – according to the “hobbes state of war of all”. If we look at it this way, we will grasp the sense of the implementation of Makiawel's doctrine for knowing the specifics of our times and their historical context, which the prominent expert of his doctrine J.G.A. Pocock of fresh Zealand described as "Moment of Makiawel". Today's times, how fewer have earned the title "Moment of Makiawel", I think we agree on that.
America in the game
From the above point of view, however, the president of the United States – how much he would not annoy us with his inconsistent behaviour – has crucial aces up his sleeve, for example, from the fact that he is the holder of a real power confirmed by a four-year electoral mandate and faces problems as real as possible and not imagined, which the Old Continent unfortunately does not understand. In the meantime, Europe presents its arguments from the position of the theorist and observer, who conveniently sat in a chair with a library of works of large European culture behind his back. He eats in this serviceful media, well-sailing “stealing concepts” of Western zero-one morals, according to the biblical “those who are not with us, who are against us”. However, European politicians are powerless to solve real problems, awakening only in consequence and outrage at someone's actions. From here, they are always secondary and step backwards.
Significant that the president Volodymyr Zelenski At the last forum in Davos, he criticised European leaders for their inactivity and deficiency of firm action in the face of global threats, stressing that they repeated the same warnings year after year without making changes. As he pointed out, Europe is inactive more like geography, history, tradition and not real political power with the will to act. The intentions of the president of Ukraine are understandable, as is his pro-American position, which so irritated all those European friends who support Ukraine at a distance, with the aid of loud media and socially catchy ideological matrices, although neither themselves nor the Jota decision forward.
Michael Graban
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Think Poland, No. 7-8 (15-22.02.2026)