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I had this thought the other night, that I'm remembering now, and it went something like: The world is being terrorized by the US empire (that part is nothing new). In addition, the combination of it being in decline and the persona of it subsequently being a spiraling narcissist (clinical definition of one) gives it a layer of disorienting and erratic that it would otherwise not have. Its decisions seem senseless at times because some of them are, while also having more thought out mechanics behind them because the head of the regime is just one person and the characteristics of the empire still exist underneath. These two priorities, the plodding and plotting empire and the erratic and self-interested narcissistic, are in a certain amount of contradiction, even as the one has helped create the other in leadership. Maybe a good example of internal contradiction.
It's like Trump is a psychological embodiment of the empire crashing out over being in decline. The worse its conditions get, the more erratic he gets, and the more erratic he gets, the more it accelerates the contradictions, creating a kind of feedback loop.