The Next American Golden Age?
President Trump has put in motion a plan that will weaken the enemies of liberty and America, and bring the world to new heights of peace and prosperity.
Steve McCann for American Thinker
2026 may well go down in history as the beginning of a new world order and the commencement of a unipolar century. Not since the end of World War II will the world have shifted so dramatically. Donald Trump is on the verge of shattering the dreams of the “Globalist” ideologues in Europe, permanently undermining the hegemonic fantasies of Communist China, and thwarting the mindless expansionist ambitions of Putin’s Russia.
He has set the stage for a de facto American empire. An empire, together with new strategic allies and partners, that would not overtly dominate or control the civilized and developed world, but through financial, economic, military, and technological dominance could bestride the world as the arbiter of last resort.
The foundation of this potential dramatic shift was laid on January 20, 2025, with Trump’s recognition that this is the time (1) to confront the Globalists, China, and Russia and (2) to reconstitute American economic supremacy by unabashedly utilizing the twin weapons of tariffs and access to the world’s largest economy to reset global trade, re-establish American dominance in manufacturing and technology, and reconfirm that the U.S. dollar is irreplaceable as the world’s reserve currency. At the same time, he began to significantly escalate domestic energy production and focus on dramatically expanding not only the size but the lethality of the military.
The next phase of this confrontation began on June 22, 2025, with an astounding exhibition of American power and determination: the unprecedented stealth bombingof Iran’s most secure underground nuclear facilities by seven B-2 Bombers making a 36-hour round trip from the United States.
This milestone achievement was soon overshadowed by the inconceivably successful and, for the Americans, bloodless capture of Nicholas Maduro and the effective takeover of Venezuela on January 3, 2026. The significance of the overwhelming success of the June 2025 bombing of Iran and the Maduro raid was not lost on Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia, and a vast panoply of world leaders.
Lost amid these accomplishments was Panama’s willingness to stand up to Chinese threats and intimidation. On January 29, 2026, Panama acquiesced to Trump’s demands and unilaterally terminated China’s long-term exclusive contract (originally signed in 1997 and renewed until 2046) to operate and effectively control the Panama Canal, an extraordinarily vital global shipping chokepoint in America’s backyard and a major Chinese foothold in the Western Hemisphere.
However, the most significant step of this march toward a new world order occurred on February 28, 2026, after six months of fruitless negotiations with the intransigent and despotic Iranian government. The threat of a nuclear Iran equipped with ballistic missiles in league with China and Russia far outweighed the risk of unilateral military action to permanently halt Iran’s nuclear ambitions and foster a change in its governance. This was an action that could only have been undertaken by a Donald Trump in coordination with America’s most reliable partner and ally, Israel.
The Iranian and Venezuelan campaigns also carried major global implications, as both nations were part of a budding Communist Chinese/Russian coalition to militarily and economically dominate the globe. Among China’s primary objectives over the past 15 years has been recruiting countries, such as Panama, through dubious economic incentives (for example, the “Belt and Road Initiative”) in order to create a global alliance with China at the helm as the world’s sole superpower.
Thus, Venezuela and Iran had significant economic and military ties with China and Russia. Between them, Venezuela and Iran supplied China with roughly 20% of its oil needs at discounted prices. The loss of this volume of cheap oil will severely affect China’s economy and military, as it will have to rely on the vagaries of the oil market now dominated by the United States and other American-allied countries.
Additionally, the weaponry, in particular anti-aircraft and missile defense, that China and Russia supplied to Venezuela and Iran has been exposed to be easily circumvented and grossly ineffective. Further, both China and Russia have remained on the sidelines, refusing to provide financial or military aid to their so-called allies. China cannot risk losing access to the American market, and Russia, after four years of futility and massive casualties, cannot defeat a far smaller Ukraine, much less send military or economic aid to another country
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This reality is not lost on other nations around the world that have either allied with China or are contemplating doing so. Many will soon follow Panama’s lead and recognize that China is an unreliable ally and a potential paper tiger. Then, they will unilaterally sever ties with the Chinese.
The new world order that may well emerge from the first thirteen months of Donald Trump’s second term will also be marked by dramatic changes in alliances. No longer will the nations of Western Europe and Australia in the Pacific be America’s primary allies. The Western European nations will be replaced by Poland and other Eastern European countries as NATO dies a gradual and inevitable death.
In the Pacific, a newly resurgent Japan will evolve into the role of being one of America’s staunchest allies and most reliable partners. This process is being acceleratedby Japan’s newly elected (by a landslide) government, and at the behest of Donald Trump.
Most of the nations of Central and South America, having been awakened from their infatuation with Communist China and Marxism, are now in the process of permanently tying their futures to that of the United States, their global superpower neighbor to the North.
In the centuries-old powder keg that is the Middle East, Israel has evolved into being America’s most reliable, closest, and most valued partner. This is a status that the entire world now sees and that carries strategic importance that is hard to overstate. As Tamir Morag, an Israeli journalist, recently wrote:
Israel is not, as detractors claim, an American client state, it is its closest partner, a sister nation to the empire that carries the entire Western civilization on its mighty shoulders.
Based on the current course of events, China’s dreams of being the world’s dominant superpower are over, and Moscow will no longer register any global attention.
The violent and destructive “-isms” that were an outgrowth of Marxism over the past 175 years are potentially on the verge of being relegated to the ash heap of history.
As it stands today, neither China nor Russia nor any alliance they might forge can stop this process from moving relentlessly forward. However, there is one entity that can. That is the Marxist-dominated Democrat party if it seizes the reins of power in Washington D.C. Democrats represent the last best hope of Communist China and Putin’s Russia to achieve global hegemony. The current iteration of the Democrat Party is, in reality, not only China and Russia’s de facto ally but its Fifth Column.
Thanks to Donald Trump and the American citizenry, the world stands on the brink of a potential golden age led by the United States and its allies and partners. But it is also in the hands of the American citizenry whether this potential becomes reality, not only in how they vote, but also in ensuring the vote is not fraught with fraud and manipulation.