What is Best for the World: Chaos, Wars and Destruction, or Order, Peace and Prosperity?
Professor Rodrigue Tremblay
"As democracy improves, the role of president increasingly represents the soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), American journalist and political commentator (in the Baltimore Evening Sun, July 26, 1920.
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
Marcus Aurelius (121-180 CE), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, (in 'Meditations, a handbook of stoic philosophy', 161-180 CE).
"We do not live [in the United States] in a constitutional Republic any more. We live in a state of soft tyranny. You may not like it but it's true. We vote, but the state runs us, we don't run it. Our government redistributes our wealth in a way that is criminal, and we do nothing to stop it."
Chuck Wooley (1941- ), American actor and game show host, (in a post on Twitter (X), March 26, 2018).
"When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them [the people] under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
American Declaration of Independence, (1776).
World peace and international order are extremely fragile nowadays, and this is very concerning. Indeed, in just a few years, the system of international laws and rules seems to have been replaced, in international relations, by unilateral and mostly improvised arbitrariness, based on brute force. This has created a dangerous situation of global chaos that threatens the peace and prosperity of nations.
In reality, such a legal anarchy and confusion stems from a major flaw in the Charter of the United Nations, which was adopted and signed in San Francisco, on June 26, 1945.
In fact, the U.N. Charter includes a clause that grants a veto power to the five permanent members of the Security Council (United States, Russia, China, Great Britain, and France), which also has ten other non-permanent members. A single negative vote (the right of veto) from one permanent member is enough to reject a Security Council resolution to maintain peace. (Article 27 of the Charter).
In practice, such a provision allows a permanent member state to launch a war of aggression against another country (or to protect a non-permanent member state that is doing so), irrespective of the provisions of the Charter specifically designed to maintain international peace and security.
Ironically, nowadays, it is one of the founding members of the U.N., namely the United States under the administration of President Donald Trump, that most frequently uses its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to launch wars of aggression around the world with near complete impunity.
This does not mean that the United States government, a signatory to the U.N. Charter, is not bound to respect the spirit and the letter of Article 2.4, which obliges all member states to refrain "in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."
However, if the government of one of the five permanent members of the Security Council wishes to act in bad faith, it can use its veto power to circumvent the basic U.N. principles.
I) The U.N. can be de facto paralyzed in its mission of world peace
The last war of aggression to date that the U.N. Charter has failed to prevent is the joint war launched by the American and Israeli governments against Iran, on Saturday, February 28, 2026.
Indeed, it was on this date that an unprovoked and illegal military bombing campaign against Iran was launched, in defiance of international law, by U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This regional war could open a Pandora's box from which all sorts of misfortunes could flow.
Indeed, history shows that it is not always the country that starts a war that ends it. In this particular case, the Israeli government appears to have a regional and questionable long-term military plan, but the Trump administration seems to have been pushed into that improvised war by short-term partisan considerations, without any medium- or long-term planning whatsoever.
Moreover, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 59 percent of the American people strongly oppose Trump's illegal war against Iran, which is being waged without clear motives or objectives. Similarly, Trump's overall approval rating is at a record low of 36 percent, and falling, as more and more Americans get informed about what is really going on.
So far, besides bringing much destruction, this war has killed as many as 3,492 people, including more than 175 innocent schoolgirls and school staff who lost their lives in a direct American missile strike on a girls' school in Minab, southern Iran. According to the Washington Post, about 1,500 civilians have been killed in Iran since the beginning ot U.S.-Israel bombing on February 28, 2026.
II) Economic and financial consequences
Moreover, the economic damage is enormous, with the shock of energy shortages around the world pushing oil prices and interest rates up, and provoking serious declines in financial markets.
For instance, the Israeli-U.S.-Iran war makes Japan especially vulnerable among industrialized economies, because it imports 95 percent of its oil consumption. This puts pressure on the yen to depreciate, forcing the Bank of Japan to sell U.S. Treasury bonds in order to have enough liquidity to sustain its currency.
This could trigger a domino effect, resulting in a major global economic and financial crisis. Indeed, when 10-year U.S. Treasury yields rise due to the sale of U.S. bonds, coinciding with a global surge in oil prices, the latter fuels inflation in many countries and causes financial markets to plummet. A widespread slowdown in economic activity inevitably follows. The overall result could be a severe global economic recession, possibly worse.
III) The role played by Donald Trump in the current disorder in the United States and the world
Since his first election to the American presidency, in 2016, tycoon Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is an autocratic, impulsive, and cunning politician, who often has uncontrolled fits of anger.
He has been a creator of chaos and of systematic destruction through verbal, economic, and military warfare, both abroad and within his own country. In the latter case, his ICE-Gestapo-style domestic police keeps adding new concentration camps.
Donald Trump has also shown himself to be dishonest intellectually, acting as a pathological liar who often makes things up out of thin air, to glorify himself and to humiliate, intimidate or destabilize his political opponents. People need to be on their guard because most of the time when that politician opens his mouth, he lies.
Moreover, business mogul Donald Trump is a politician with a highly controversial past. He has demonstrated himself to be a warmonger, a bully, and a predator. In fact, that is what he has done all his life, and he has transposed into politics the predatory one sided practices he developed in his private business dealings, as a builder of hotels, casinos, and golf courses.
Furthermore, Donald Trump is also an individual with a long list of misdeeds. In fact, his record is that of a con man, convicted on numerous occasions for criminal offenses.
Indeed, it has been reported in detail by Wikipedia that Donald Trump, in his business and personal legal affairs, from 1973 and until 2016, has unbelievably been involved in over 4,000 legal cases of numerous business litigations, personal defamation lawsuits, tax disputes, and cases of sexual misconduct.
Once in power, Donald Trump has been systematically abusing the pretext of 'emergency powers' to violate the U.S. Constitution. He often undermines the courts of justice by attacking judges who rule against his autocratic whims, calling the U.S. Supreme Court 'stupid'! Moreover, he played a leading role in the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, when he tried to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election results. In other words, Donald Trump is a threat to American institutions.
This is on top of his numerous and varied accusations of fraud and corruption, including one for accepting the gift of a $400 million luxury Boeing 747 from the foreign government of Qatar, and obvious manipulation of markets by some investors close to power and privy to inside information. The list is very long.
— All things considered, D. Trump is a politician who is vulgar and who has no class. He is often malicious, petty and obnoxious, like blocking the opening of a newly built bridge, or rejoicing callously when a person dies.
In fact, D. Trump does not project the image of the head of a competent and legitimate government, but he rather behaves like the head of a crime syndicate, who is constantly making aggressive ultimatums that can't be refused.
· The illegal cover-up of the Epstein files continues
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is pursuing its on-going cover-up of Donald Trump's role in the politico-sexual Epstein pedophilia network, which was responsible for having enslaved more than one thousand underage girls, from various countries, and which served many wealthy and influential individuals, and even involved the assistance of some intelligence agencies.
It was also an international sex trafficking ring that received more than one billion dollars from various sources.
All this is not widely known, in violation of a law passed nearly unanimously by Congress, the 'Epstein Files Transparency Act', adopted on November 18, 2025, requiring that the Trump administration release the totality of the documents in the Epstein files, and which is still far from having been done.
IV) How come a candidate as unprepared as D. Trump was elected to the U.S. Presidency?
Future historians will probably wonder about what unusual political circumstances made it possible for such a flawed candidate, convicted of 34 felony counts by a court, with an unstable character bordering on dementia, and who is known to have been deeply involved in the international sex ring of J. Epstein, trading in underage girls, to be elected president of the United States.
They could have trouble explaining how such an individual remained in office many years, without being impeached or removed from office, according to either one of two articles of the U.S. Constitution.
· Art. II, sec.4: ("The President... of the United States shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.")
· 25th Amendment, Sec.4: (Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments... transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.")
Both articles were designed to remove a rogue or sick president from office.
Indeed, on the health front, it increasingly appears that Donald Trump, 79, is being treated currently for Alzheimer's disease and dementia, like his father. Congress should take notice.
Indeed, over the last few months, Donald Trump has become a loose canon and is a global threat. He has been on an insane war path around the world.
Not only has he attacked militarily the country of Venezuela to steal its oil resources and launched another unconstitutional and illegal war of aggression against Iran, in order to steal its oil facilities, but—like a cruel tyrant—he has stooped so low as to impose an illegal oil embargo against Cuba, a small fuel-starved country in need of electricity.
Conclusion
According to numerous doctors, neuroscientists and psychiatrists, American businessman Donald Trump, 79 years old, and currently President of the United States, is rapidly declining and even getting worse on a daily basis, both in physical and mental health. This makes Donald Trump not only sick but also unfit to be head of any government.
Indeed, the sitting American president's questionable and weird behavior, improvised remarks and insults all around, and disruptive and sometimes very dumb policies, indicate that he is most unqualified and too dangerous to be president of the United States.
Moreover, his widespread ignorance causes him to constantly change his mind, which brings him to improvise and to shift positions, depending on the last person with whom he has spoken. His macro-economic policies are insane and improvised and have been condemned by virtually all renowned economists, while his justifications for illegally launching hubristic, destructive and costly wars against other countries have been strongly criticized.
The current political, economic, and war chaos in the world is largely attributable to Donald Trump and his unbridled interventions. This foreshadows not only humanitarian catastrophes, but also a severe worldwide economic recession. It also heralds a significant decline in the United States' reputation in the world.
Therefore, the elected members of the U.S. Congress, and especially the Republican majority in both the House and the Senate, should take concrete steps to put an end to D. Trump's daily political circus. They should stop him from launching unconstitutional wars of aggression and economic warfare against other countries.
Furthermore, as the Nuremberg Tribunal clearly ruled, military officers have the responsibility not to comply with unlawful orders to commit war crimes and atrocities.
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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of the book about morals "The code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles" of the book about geopolitics "The New American Empire", and of his recent book, in French, "La régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018".
He holds a Ph.D. in international finance from Stanford University.
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Posted Thursday, April 2, 2026.
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