Alexander Dugin, in a recent article, analyzes how Donald Trump’s return to power marks a critical break with the global deep state, which divides the collective West and accelerates the rise of a multipolar world as liberal globalization begins to collapse.
“” With the entry of Trump and his team into the White House, the entire architecture of international relations began to change radically. One of the most important developments in this new world picture is the accelerating fragmentation of the West. Much has already been said and written about this, but a thorough geopolitical and ideological analysis of this phenomenon is still lacking.
The division of the West is primarily ideological in nature. Geopolitical aspects are secondary. The point is that Trump and his supporters, who won the US elections in the fall of 2024, are radical opponents of liberal globalization. And this is not a temporary or partisan political issue. It is a serious matter of principle.
The current head of the White House bases his entire ideology, policy and strategy on the central thesis that the left-liberal ideology that dominated the West (and the world at large) for several decades, especially after the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the USSR, has fully utilized its potential. It has failed in the task of global leadership, undermined the dominance of the United States (the main driving force and general staff of globalization) and must now be decisively and irrevocably rejected.
Unlike the classic Republicans of recent decades (such as George W. Bush), Trump never intended to adapt the neoconservative-style globalization, which called for direct aggressive imperialism to spread democracy and impose unipolarity. Trump is not only an opponent of the Democrats on political details, but also wants to abolish liberal globalization in all its dimensions and offers his own vision of a world order.
Whether he can implement this vision remains an open question: Resistance to Trump’s policies is growing every day. But the president’s stance is serious and his popular support is strong, enough to at least try. And Trump is trying.
Trumpism, at least in theory and in the hopes of its most devoted supporters, systematically and consistently rejects global left liberalism. In this ideology, the object of historical progress is all of humanity, which must be united under a world government (made up of liberals). This requires the strengthening of the global hegemony of Western democracies through a unipolar model and the transition to a world without poles, when all rivals (Russia, China, Iran, North Korea) and hesitant actors will have been defeated and dismembered.
Nation-states are gradually going to cede their power to a supranational body, the world government, which will represent not just a deep state, but a global deep state. This entity already exists in practice and operates according to a networked model: Its agents and supporters are present in almost every society, often in key positions in politics, business, education, science, culture and finance. In essence, the current international elite, overwhelmingly liberal, regardless of its national affiliation, constitutes the infrastructure that sustains this globalized project.
Liberal ideology promotes extreme individualism and denies all forms of collective identity, ethnic, religious, national, gender, and even the category of humanity itself, as expressed in the projects of post-humanists and supporters of deep ecology. The promotion of illegal immigration, gender politics, and the defense of all minorities (including the adoption of the critical theory of ethnicity, i.e. reverse racism) is therefore an integral part of liberal ideology. Instead of nations and peoples, it sees only quantitative magnitudes.
At the same time, the liberal international elite is becoming increasingly intolerant of any criticism. Therefore, it aggressively promotes methods of total social control, up to the creation of a biological profile of each person, which is stored in big data. Under the banner of “freedom,” liberals are essentially establishing an Orwellian-style dictatorship.
This ideology, and the global institutions it has spawned, both legal and secret, dominated the US, the West, and the world at large until the rise of Trump. Exceptions include Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and to some extent Hungary, Slovakia, and other countries that have chosen to maintain and strengthen their dominance despite pressure from the forces of globalization.
The basic conflict thus unfolded between liberal globalists on the one hand and countries oriented toward multipolarity on the other. This opposition reached its most intense expression in the conflict in Ukraine, where a Nazi regime in Kiev was deliberately created, armed and supported by liberal globalists in order to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, which represents an alternative pole to the unipolar world order. In Islamic countries, the same goal is pursued by radical Islamist forces such as ISIS, Al Qaeda and their allies. The globalized puppet regime in Taiwan falls basically into the same category.
In general, this entire system, before Trump, was known as the “collective West”. In this formation, the positions of individual countries and national governments played almost no role. The global deep state had its own programs, goals and strategies that completely ignored national interests. This included the US itself: The liberal globalists of the Democratic Party pursued their policies without taking into account the interests of ordinary Americans. Thus, there was a rise in social inequality, extreme gender experimentation, a flood of illegal immigrants into the US, the outsourcing of industry, the collapse of the healthcare system, the failure of the education system, the increase in crime, etc. All of this was considered secondary in comparison with the global domination of liberal elites, which led humanity towards a political singularity, that is, a universal leap into a new post-human future, in which technology would completely replace humans.
Of course, the countries of the Global South offered passive resistance, and Russia’s active promotion of a multipolar world posed an existential challenge to liberal globalization. But the collective West continued to act together and even managed to rally a significant part of humanity, if not the majority of humanity.
Of course, the problems of global domination began to pile up. Experts predicted possible confrontations, but the liberal plan remained unchanged. The world seemed to be on the path to a world order dominated by the collective West, an ecosystem of liberal elites and obedient, zombie masses. New technologies allowed for even greater control through total surveillance and even biological interventions in the physiology of the individual (via bioweapons, vaccinations and nanochips).
The collective West continued on this path until the last moment, and would have stuck with it if the global deep state candidate, Kamala Harris, had won the US election. But something went wrong and Trump won. Trump didn’t play ball with them. In fact, Trump’s agenda is the exact opposite of the liberal-globalist agenda.
Trump’s initial stance was against the deep state, initially mainly within the US, against the Democratic Party elite and the ecosystem that the globalists had created after decades of unchallenged rule. Their networks had permeated everything: the administrative apparatus, the intelligence services, the judiciary at all levels, the economy, the government, the Pentagon, the education system, schools, healthcare, big business, diplomacy, the media and culture. For many years, the US was the bastion of the collective West, and American influence in Europe and around the world was synonymous with liberalism and globalization. This is precisely what Trump has declared war on.
The first steps of his administration were aimed at crushing the deep state. The creation of DOGE under Elon Musk, the closure of USAID, radical reforms in education and healthcare, and the appointment of Trump loyalists (Vance, Hegseth, Patel, Gabbard, Bondi, Savino, Homan, Kennedy Jr.) to key positions in the government, the Pentagon, and the intelligence community were political-ideological operations against liberalism.
On the first day of his term, Trump issued an executive order abolishing gender policy, woke ideology, and the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) principle. He immediately began combating illegal immigration, crime, and the unhindered penetration of Mexican drug cartels into United States territory.
In fact, Trump began by detaching the United States from the collective system of the West, dismantling the structures of the global “deep state” and crushing the interconnected ecosystem created by liberals over decades. At first, he did so openly and decisively. Elon Musk took on the role of the anti-Soros through Platform X, actively supporting right-wing populist forces in Europe and Africa that directly opposed the globalists. Opponents of globalization also received support from Trump’s ideologues, Steve Bannon and Vice President JD Vance.
Consequently, Trump’s geopolitics is completely different from that of the globalists. He rejects liberal internationalism, calls for a realist approach to international relations, and proclaims the sovereignty of the United States as a great power as the ultimate goal. He rejects any argument that favors global liberalism at the expense of American interests. He is tightening immigration policy to the extreme, seeking to bring key manufacturing sectors back to the US, restructuring the financial system, and focusing on strategic interests close to his homeland, namely Canada, Greenland, and security on the southern border with Mexico.
It is in this broader context that we must understand the war in Ukraine. For Trump, as he has repeatedly stated, this is not his war. It was prepared, provoked, and then led by the global deep state (i.e., the collective West). As president, Trump inherited this, but since his ideology, policies, and strategy are almost completely opposite to those of the globalists, he wants to end the war as soon as possible. It is not just someone else’s war, but the opposite of his own agenda. He is much more concerned about China than Russia, which is no real threat to US national interests.
We should now recognize that Trump’s reforms are on a massive scale. He is in the process of radically reshaping the world order. A united collective West is now being replaced by two actors: the US as the MAGA project (with Canada and Greenland) and the EU as a fragment of the once monolithic liberal-globalized system.
The global deep state still rules the EU, and the liberal ecosystem remains deeply rooted in the US itself. Thus, Trump is not only separating America from the collective West, he is also carrying out a revolutionary transformation of his country. Despite popular support and key allies, he is up against a deeply entrenched globalized infrastructure that has been built up over nearly a century.
The first steps towards a liberal-globalized US foreign policy were taken by Woodrow Wilson after World War I. Since then, this approach has dominated, with some deviations. Trump is determined to abandon it in favor of classical realism, unyielding national sovereignty, and the recognition of a multipolar world in which other great powers exist alongside the United States, powers that need not be liberal democracies. He categorically rejects the idea of abolishing nation-states in favor of a world government. As for gender politics, the cult of immigrants, the abolition of culture, and the legalization of perversions, Trump openly finds all of this repugnant and says so.
What conclusion can we draw from this overview? First of all, the division of the collective West is in full swing. The once unified liberal-globalized system with a planetary reach (which had penetrated deeply into the highest levels of power even in Russia in the late 1980s and 1990s and almost dominated until Putin took office) is giving way to a new world order that more closely resembles multipolarity. This change is in line with Russia’s short-term and long-term interests. The crisis and possible collapse of the liberal-globalized project and the weakening of the global deep state are to Russia’s benefit. That is precisely what we are fighting for: For a world in which Russia will be a great dominant power, a player, not a toy.
The severity and depth of the global changes since Trump’s return to power are extremely significant. While these developments are not irreversible, everything Trump has done, is doing, and is likely to do to dismantle the collective West objectively contributes to the rise of multipolarity. However, the forces of resistance should not be underestimated. The global deep state is powerful, deeply rooted, and strategically reinforced. It would be reckless to ignore it. These structures still control the major European powers and the EU itself. It is extremely powerful in the US, and it was the global deep state that created modern Nazi Ukraine as a terrorist entity.
This is what we are really fighting, not the West, not the US. Once the leadership in Washington changed, the whole picture changed. But the global deep state, which can no longer be confined to the US, the CIA, the Pentagon or Wall Street, still exists and pursues its global agenda. It is very likely, almost certain, that agents of the deep state will try to influence Trump, lead him into fatal mistakes, sabotage his initiatives or even eliminate him altogether. As we know, such attempts have already been made.
This is why, now more than ever, we must seriously and thoroughly deal with what we really face in the form of liberal democracy, with its theories, values, programs, goals, strategies and institutions. It is not as easy as it sounds: Until recently, we ourselves were under their dominant influence, and in some ways, we may still be. Until we fully understand the true nature of our enemy, we have little chance of defeating him. In Ukraine, we are not fighting Ukrainians, nor the US, nor even the collapsing collective West. The nature of our enemy is something entirely different. The only task left for us is to find out what it is.“”
Alexander Dugin
