The Master Outdone by the Apprentice
Ultimately, if we look through a window into the future, the view is chilling. In less than a year, Donald Trump’s only real « success » has been beating Vladimir Putin at his own game. The master of the Kremlin, once the undisputed champion of thug tactics, has had the spotlight stolen by his apprentice in the White House. We are no longer witnessing geopolitics, but a sinister competition in brutality where the American president no longer seeks to lead the free world, but to outdo autocrats in the art of blackmail, contempt, and lies. In this duel of egos for the title of planetary « Godfather, » Trump has proven he can go further than his role model, leaving democracy behind as mere collateral damage.