But we got politically correct: '"'Ah, let's take it easy!' It's that we're not politically correct anymore. Just so you understand: We win. Now we win."

All these would have been easy – along with Afghanistan.

What was the meaning to Trump's reference to Vietnam? "What he was saying is that 'we' would have won Vietnam easily, if we hadn't been woke and DEI." Some veterans might amplify, "You know: we had enough firepower: We could have killed everyone."

"No matter where you go," Trump adds, "no matter what you even think about, there's nothing like the fighting force that we have [including] Rome … No one should ever want to start a fight with the USA."

The point is that in today's Trump circles, not only is there no fear of war, but there is this unsubstantiated delusion of American military power. Hegseth said: "We are the most powerful military on the history of the planet, bar none. Nobody else can even come close to it." To which Trump adds, "Our market [too], is the greatest in the world – no one can live without it."

The Anglo-US "Empire" is backing itself into the corner of "terminal decline," as French philosopher Emmanual Todd puts it. Trump is attempting, on the one hand, to coerce into being a new "Bretton Woods" in order to re-create dollar hegemony through threat, bluster and tariffs – or war, if needs be.

Todd believes that as the Anglo-US Empire falls apart, the US is lashing out at the world in fury – and is devouring itself through the attempt to re-colonise its own colonies (i.e. Europe) for quick financial shakedowns.

Trump's vision of US unstoppable military force amounts to a doctrine of domination and submission. One that runs counter to all the former narrative-talk of western values. What is clear is that this policy shift is "joined at the hip" with Jewish and Evangelical eschatological creeds. It shares with Jewish nationalists the conviction that they too, in alliance with Trump, verge on quasi universal domination:

"We crushed Iran's nuclear and ballistic projects – they are still there, but we took them back with the help of President Trump," Netanyahu boasts. "We had a precise alliance, within the framework of which we shared the burden [with the US] and achieved the neutralization of Iran." According to Netanyahu, "Israel emerged from this event as the dominant power in the Middle East, but we still have something to do – what started in Gaza will be ended in Gaza."