Death of International Law and Celebration “Power Policies”
Question: Alexander Gelevich, let us turn to the turbulence of the turn of 2025-2026. We are witnessing a synchronous escalation: Venezuela, Greenland, Trump’s new rhetoric, instability around Iran. Why did this geopolitical “prodile” fall so hard?
A.D.: We are present at the moment of truth – the implementation of those plans that Donald Trump articulated during the election campaign of 2024-2025. What was perceived then as extravagance, diplomatic hooliganism or unrealizable grotesque—the idea of annexing Greenland, the absorption of Canada, or a direct invasion of Venezuela—is now acquiring the flesh of reality. Trump did not just declare the transition to Power Politics (power policy), he began its inexorable implementation.
Its recent maxim, the “international law doesn’t exist”, and the only source of legitimization is the subject’s self – is nothing but a pure, distilled definition of sovereignty. For, according to Carl Schmitt, the sovereign is the one who makes the decision in an emergency (USnahmezustand). Any war, any scrape of the world balance is an emergency situation par excellence. And he who dictates his will in this chaos is the sovereign, regardless of whether he fits into the procrustean bed of legal norms.
It is necessary to realize that international law is always the result of the consensus of the winners. When the existing legal architecture ceases to satisfy the appetites of the leading powers – as it was with England of the XVI-XVII centuries, which declared itself the sole mistress of the seas, which provoked a conflict with the Iberian peace – the war begins. Trump said this moment has come.
The system began to rot since the collapse of the USSR, when the traitors in our leadership committed a crime beyond the framework of a catastrophe – they took the enemy the keys to the “Grad” on a platter. With the disappearance of the socialist camp, the building of international law blew and erosion. And if the liberals dreamed of a global world, then Trump grossly cut off these dreams: first – the strengthening of American hegemony and the national state, globalism – then. We are inside the Third World War, in the process of redrawing the map of the world.
Neo-Monroism and the End of the Small Sovereignty
Trump actualized the so-called “coralary to the Monroe Doctrine.” If in the 19th century, James Monroe postulated the liberation of the America from European influence, then Trump turned this thesis: now it means direct and total Washington’s entire Western Hemisphere. This, as Tucker Carlson rightly remarked, the transition from Republic to the Empire.
In this situation, Russia has no other ontological choice but to proclaim itself an Empire and approve the Monroe’s Eurasian Doctrine: “Eurasia is for the Eurasians.”
Trump says: The Western Hemisphere is U.S. property.
We must answer: the Eastern Hemisphere is the sphere of domination of Russia and China (as well as India).We are entering the era of the three-polar world. The fate of Europe in this design is deplorable and unpredictable – it risks becoming a victim of the next war for Greenland between the United States and NATO, and the Brussels elites are already ready to raise funds in complete confusion in “defense of Denmark”.
For us, the imperative is clear: to become a sovereign pole of power. In this new, rigid topology of the world, small nation-states are historical garbage. The concept of sovereignty for countries that do not have a nuclear shield has been annihilated.
There can be no sovereign Armenia.
Georgia or Azerbaijan cannot be sovereign.
There can be no sovereign Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan or Kyrgyzstan.Either they become part of our Union State, our Grossraum, or they become a springboard of the West (or China). The third is not given. The era of the neutral “Switzerland” is over.
Energy Scaling and “Ozepastic Thinking”
Question: Isn’t the strategy of energy strangulation is being built against us through a collapse in prices, given the stocks of Venezuela, Iran and the Arctic ambitions of the United States?
A.D.: The risks are colossal. Trump, attacking our shadow fleet and imposing sanctions, seeks to deprive us of “right to breathe.” Energy is a weapon. The attack on Maduro, the pressure on Iran, claims to Greenland are all links in the same chain to block our, God-based data, Arctic prospects.
But to respond to this by “expression of concern” or an appeal to the late international law means to demonstrate a weakness over which Washington and Brussels only mocklessly chuckle. We have already floated into a world where Jeremiah’s “deployment” is inappropriate.
Moreover, I am convinced that the next Regime Change Operation is being prepared against Russia.
At first, they, through Israel and the United States, eliminated the leadership of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Then the IRGC officers and Iranian nuclear scientists were killed.
Now – the attack of drones on the residence of our President and an encroachment on the nuclear triad.It’s a “black mark”. There are no red lines anymore. Our answer should be a regime in which every day becomes the Day of the “Hands”. Strikes should be carried out on decision-making centers, on the political leadership of the terrorist Ukrainian regime.
We must master the terrible philosophy of thinking after Gaza. As Adorno asked about the possibility of poetry after Auschwitz, so we must understand: in 2026, Gaza became a measure of things.
Or you're turning the enemy into Gaza.
Or you're becoming a gas.This is an inhumane, immoral conclusion, but we have no other peace. The winners – Netanyahu, Trump, Zelensky – are not judged. We, due to our humanity, did not consider the Ukrainians enemies, relying on them by our people. But looking at Zelensky, Budanov, Malyuk, I do not see our people in them. It’s different, alien ontology. And if we continue to play humanism and cheburashek, congratulating the newlyweds against the background of the apocalypse, there will be no marriages, no Cheburashka, no Russia.
Trump: Honest Enemy and Chance for Victory
Question: A year ago you called Trump a “chance” because he, unlike insane globalists, is not a maniac. Has your opinion changed after a year of his reign?
A.D.: Trump is both an enemy and a chance. Biden was the madman with his hypocritical globalism, which unleashed a war in Ukraine. Trump is the embodiment of the will to power, he abolished the “language of lies” for unnecessary. His world is the world of the formula “I can and do”.
This year, Trump, of course, drifted from his MAGA program towards the neoconservatives. In domestic politics, he did nothing – no arrests of corrupt officials, no promised purges (where is the Epstein case?). But in foreign policy, he turned out to be even more aggressive interventionist than expected.
But that’s his “hostness.” With him, you can not play with hard cards of diplomacy – he will just get a gun. He only understands the language of power. And that’s our chance. We must act in a mirror: not to explain, not to justify, but to take our own. Trump respects only those who are able to turn the enemy into ruins, as Israel did with Gaza (which Trump, note, tacitly approved).
Phenomenology of Cynicism
Question: But what about his tweets about the “spirit of Anchorage” and friendship with Putin?
A.D.: It is an absolute, crystal cynicism. Trump with the same pathos glorifies the “great diet cola” that he drinks with gallons, and negotiations with the leader of some Vanuatu. He doesn’t even try to lie – he just broadcasts the stream of his consciousness, where everything is “great.”
His attempt to “save Ukraine” through a truce was a deadly trap for us, and, fortunately, his imperial prudence quickly brought everything back to its circles – to the ultimatums that we rejected. Trump is transparent. When he doesn’t say directly “I’ll kill you,” he means it. We have learned to read these thoughts. There is no time for illusions and negotiations. There is only Will to Victory – the will to win with its own strength.