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The Last Card of a Fading Empire: How Trump Tried to Save America’s Power Game

*The Last Card of a Fading Empire: How Trump Tried to Save America’s Power Game*

Oh, the money! Say hello to your lovely wife for me. Arm-wrestling with Macron, refusing to shake hands with Egypt’s president, throwing what were probably embarrassing remarks at Italy’s leader, and so on.

All of this was just part of Donald Trump’s grand package of humiliations at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit.

The media called his behavior bizarre and completely inappropriate. But was it really just the result of Trump’s chronic narcissism? Or should we see these antics as something more—a deliberate political performance rather than a personal quirk?

Here’s the truth: the Sharm El-Sheikh summit was, in essence, a global lineup for a crisis-stricken America.

U.S. debt has piled up higher than ever. Nations around the world now prefer gold over the dollar. China, threatened by Trump’s trade games, has bared its teeth.

Russia keeps pressing closer to NATO’s borders. And Iran, despite being non-nuclear, still refuses
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