This is PART ONE of a two-part series exploring Trump’s now documented mission to fracture the European alliance, walk away from NATO, and abandon 80 years of transatlantic cooperation at the altar of greed and economic global dominance.
You’ll have to excuse Europe if it has decided to take no advice from a man who has spent his entire life cheating on his taxes and his wives, stealing from his own charity, before stealing classified information from a government, which, like a spoiled child, he had to be dragged kicking and screaming from. A Liar in Chief who left an economic wasteland behind in 2020 after his grossly incompetent management of the COVID pandemic. A tragedy which led to the unnecessary death of an estimated 200,000 Americans. In a serious world, Trump is an unserious man who will be remembered merely as a skidmark on history.
Under Trump’s failed leadership, he is behaving as all bullies do; if he can’t win, he threatens, he cheats, and he lies. While he may be able to convince millions of poorly educated Americans he’s a winner, the rest of the world struggles to keep a straight face while gently telling the Emperor he’s wearing no clothes. The fantasy world he inhabits, and expects the others to join him in, is a sign of his cognitive disconnect from a world that is laughing at him under its breath, careful not to laugh too loud for fear he’ll do something stupid like start a war or crash the global economy as retribution.
Those in senior positions in this administration must, by now, at least be considering the legal jeopardy they face when the regime collapses. We know it’s being given serious thought because of new threats to impose yet more sanctions on the International Criminal Court. Reuters reported yesterday (December 10th 2025) that an anonymous Trump official stated:
“There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them,” the Trump administration official said.
“That is unacceptable, and we will not allow it to happen.”
For context, the US is NOT a signatory to the Rome Statute, the foundational treaty that established the International Criminal Court. So why does it matter? It matters because, regardless of whether a nation is a signatory, if the ICC indicts an individual, including a head of state or former head of state, member states have an obligation to arrest those indicted for whom an arrest warrant has been issued. It’s this faint risk that clearly worries Trump, as did the risk of being held accountable in a US criminal court before SCOTUS provided him with a gold-plated get-out-of-jail-free card. He’s simply seeking the same preemptive immunity from the ICC.
As you would expect in this crazy upside-down world, the ICC has no enforcement power to secure arrests, so it is reliant on member nations to secure an arrest should an indicted suspect step onto their soil. The accused is detained and then transferred to The Hague to stand trial. Here’s why I think senior officials like Hegseth, in particular, face real jeopardy. Trump has made no friends since returning to office, except with rogue states and dictatorships. In the eyes of the democratic world, he and his administration are viewed as leaders of a pariah administration running a transnational extortion racket from the White House.
I believe that once Trump either leaves office or is forced to leave office, democratic nations around the world would be more than happy to arrest and deliver any US officials indicted by the ICC to the Hague for trial. This is, of course, purely hypothetical and would likely never happen because the ICJ’s own rules state that it cannot investigate and prosecute crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, etc, if the applicable country’s legal system has investigated and is reasonably capable of prosecuting the alleged crimes. In Trump’s case, the recent Supreme Court ruling would not allow Trump to be charged for actions taken while in office. This does NOT, however, extend to the likes of Hegseth.
From a purely technical perspective, although the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute, it does not preclude those indicted from standing trial. I believe that once Trump leaves office, nobody will lift a finger to help him or any of his accomplices. Republicans will be too busy running around claiming they always knew he was a crook, but lived in fear of threats to them and their family, while the rest say ‘I was just following orders. What you have to remember is that when Trump is gone, so will a large segment of his base, leaving the Republican Party in tatters. There is no natural successor to Trump, which is why I believe Marjorie Taylor Greene is amusingly positioning herself for a doomed run.
If anyone believes that an incoming Democrat administration would allow any US citizen to stand trial at the Hague, I fear they are deeply misguided. I also have serious doubts that we will see any Truth and Reconciliation Commission either. Current Democratic leadership will predictably want to move on so they can begin to fill their own pockets again. I may be wrong, and I genuinely hope I am, but history tells us there is rarely an appetite for airing dirty laundry in public. I believe that without some accountability, the US's rehabilitation on the world stage will face serious questions.
The world, and Europe in particular, is learning a long, hard lesson about misplaced trust and loyalty, which will affect U.S. global and transatlantic relations for decades to come. While Trump has been throwing his weight around, the world has been adapting to what is now recognised by many to be a US threat to Europe, its allies and trading partners. As a measure of the threat the US poses to the world order, you don’t have to look much further than its earlier sanctions on the International Criminal Court. As noted by the global voice of the legal profession, the International Bar Association in August 2025 :
On 20 August 2025, the US imposed sanctions against two ICC judges, Judge Nicolas Guillou and Judge Kimberly Prost, and against Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan and Deputy Prosecutor Mame Mandiaye Niang. As a result of the sanctions, the designated persons will be banned from entering the US and their US assets will be blocked.
In a statement by the IBA’s Executive Director, Dr Mark Ellis he said:
The International Criminal Court was created to ensure that victims of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and aggression can seek justice. With these sanctions, the US administration continues to shamefully obstruct justice for these victims. Sanctioning eminent lawyers and judges for doing their jobs is a perversion of the rule of law and an affront to the integrity of the international legal order. The Trump administration is using bullying tactics to intimidate and deter an international court from performing its legitimate functions, and in doing so aligns itself with the worst of oppressive regimes.’
Let’s be very clear, this is a lawless administration not only disappearing people from its own streets, incarcerating the homeless, stealing healthcare from low and middle-income workers, not to mention food from the food-insecure. It’s deliberately expanding its abhorrent behaviour by sanctioning ICC officers and lawyers doing their job to uphold international law. It’s easy to think these actions are symbolic, but they are MUCH more than that. Beyond prohibiting travel to the US and blocking access to any US assets, the sanctions also led the US government to order Microsoft, a US company, to suspend access to the email accounts of the sanctioned ICC lawyers.
Anyone in any doubt that Trump is prepared to use the tech ‘kill switch’ option should take careful note. The ICC has since shifted away from reliance on U.S. technology, adopting open-source alternatives instead. This, of course, raises the further question of whether any data held in the US tech stack is truly secure.
You don’t need to look much further for another example of how the US uses leverage; the UAE has been building its Tech Stack around a mix of US and Chinese AI to hedge against reliance on a single technology. Under Biden, there were significant security concerns about the UAE, whose largest trading partner was and remains China. The concerns were that China would gain access to US chip technology.
This all changed on Trump’s recent visit to the Middle East, when, as reported by the Economic Times, Trump signed a deal with the UAE to build the largest artificial intelligence campus outside the United States. The agreement is classic Trump. The UAE ‘committed’ to a $1.4 trillion investment in the US over TEN YEARS. This gave Trump the $1.4 trillion soundbite to add to his fantasy investment list. Investment, which he speaks of almost daily as money in the bank today. In truth, it’s based on a long-term ‘commitment, ’ not a guarantee. It’s just more economic window dressing for his ‘America is hot’ false narrative. You will see he has pulled off the same ‘commitment’ stunt with leaders around the world, each time failing to mention that you can’t spend or invest a commitment.
There is a good reason Trump likes doing business with the Gulf States: it’s the same reason He’s desperate to do business with Putin. Bribes in both cultures are an everyday part of doing business, and that fits Trump’s real presidential agenda perfectly. He’s working on the assumption that the UAE will not allow China access to leading-edge AI chips. His guarantee is driven by the ‘kill switch’ option that Trump is betting the house on. Good luck with that. It should also be noted that, as of December 9th 2025, no deal had been finalised despite Trump’s having already metaphorically banked the invisible $1.4 trillion.
The bottom line is that the only real way to win the AI race is for the best technology to prevail, but there is so much at stake for the US that customers are being forced to lock in US technology to protect against Chinese market penetration. I can see the direction of travel for the Trump agenda, but ultimately, cost and efficiency in a global market will always prevail. He’s telling customers, ‘You’re either with us, or you’re against us. ’ It’s a flawed proposition in a competitive global market. Holding hostages rarely ends well, but that’s Trump’s way. What he fails to recognise is that historical evidence over the past four decades indicates that China will catch up and eventually lead the way at a lower price point.
In part two of this piece, we’ll explore Trump’s two-track mission to dominate tech and to reimagine Europe's culture, including a new C-5 alliance with the US, China, Russia, India, and Japan.
First establish normal ties with Europe and Asian countries again, and in coordination take money, and power from Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, and all the other Corporate Media owners that financed Trump and his lies about the corruption. A special tax of one percent for every million dollars over ten million dollars salary. Something like that.
I would hope this is the ultimate lesson on ‘filling pockets’. It’s going to take every decent person in America to clean up this monstrous mess that the trump administration is making (daily). Anyone who thinks they are going to make a buck while trying to clear the way for future generations will be called out by the Elizabeth Warrens of the country (I would hope). Anyone who has been paying attention is now more than leery of the rich folk - if not, they need to be.