The Decline of the American Empire

If only Trump had won in 2020 his second term might have resembled his first. 

I am sure had he been in the White House Russia would not have invaded Ukraine.

World war would therefore not have become a  danger. 

I imagine, though it's impossible to know, that he would not have attacked Venezuela, killed people in boats on the high sea, prepared an invasion of Cuba or demanded Greenland and Canada. 

He would not have deteriorated mentally in office. 

I don't know whether he would have launched an attack on Iran, which he did for what reasons he never made clear but on  a sugar high after Venezuela. I doubt it but nobody knows.  

As it is he seems to have achieved something that seemed impossible: to be as bad as or worse than George W Bush and Biden.

But there are very good reasons why he won the White House twice and those reasons strongly suggest that America is in decline.