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America Is Losing the World—and It Doesn’t Know How to Stop

April 10, 2026, Joshua Scheer

The so-called ceasefire is already cracking—and anyone paying attention knows why.

In this wide-ranging and unsettling conversation, retired U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson pulls back the curtain on a geopolitical order that is not stabilizing, but unraveling. The war with Iran isn’t ending—it’s mutating. NATO isn’t adapting—it’s collapsing. And the United States, rather than recalibrating to a changing world, is doubling down on the very policies accelerating its decline. With Wilkerson saying of NATO: “I think NATO’s dead. I’ve said that before, I’ll say it again. It may take a few months, even a couple of years, for everyone to finally pronounce it dead and say a prayer over its grave—but it’s dead.

Trump may never formally declare the United States is leaving NATO. He’s not that kind of leader—he’s mercurial, inconsistent. You’re not going to get a clear, cogent statement out of him. But it’ll happen all the same.

This is already a fatal situation. Ukraine put the dagger in NATO’s heart—but the wound was there long before that. It began when we broke our promises to Russia after George H.W. Bush, when we failed to integrate them into Europe.

Every president since—starting with Clinton—drove that knife in deeper.”

Wilkerson, a former insider at the highest levels of American power, doesn’t speak in euphemisms. He describes a system running on inertia, denial, and violence—where ceasefires serve as cover, diplomacy is treated as theater, and entire regions are sacrificed to maintain a crumbling illusion of control. The result is not just endless war abroad, but growing instability at home, with the specter of internal fracture no longer unthinkable but increasingly probable.

This is not analysis meant to reassure. It is a warning—from someone who has seen how these decisions are made, and where they lead.

The ceasefire is a lie—and the system selling it knows it.

In this blistering conversation, retired U.S. Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson doesn’t hedge, sanitize, or play along. He calls it what it is: a collapsing global order held together by deception, violence, and delusion. The so-called ceasefire with Iran, he warns, may be nothing more than a tactical pause—a familiar pattern where diplomacy becomes cover for the next round of escalation.

And the implications go far beyond one war.

Wilkerson flatly declares that NATO is “dead”—not weakened, not strained, but functionally finished, a relic already gutted by decades of broken promises and strategic arrogance. He points to a United States that has “created an enemy out of the whole planet,” pursuing confrontation over adaptation as global power shifts away from Western dominance.

Meanwhile, on the ground, the brutality continues. Civilians are being killed at scale, entire cities reduced to rubble, while political leaders posture and stall. There is, in Wilkerson’s assessment, “no inclination whatsoever” from Israeli leadership to stop the slaughter in Lebanon—making any broader ceasefire structurally impossible from the start.

But perhaps most alarming is what comes next.

Wilkerson warns that the United States is not just losing its grip abroad—it is fracturing internally. He describes a political system corrupted across branches, a military being reshaped along ideological lines, and a society saturated with weapons and polarization. The result? A credible path—not hypothetical, but emerging—toward internal conflict.

An empire in denial. A war without an endpoint. And a leadership class, in Wilkerson’s words, willing to “bomb the hell out of everything” rather than confront reality.

But the deeper story isn’t just about Iran or Israel. It’s about a global system breaking apart in real time—and leaders who would rather burn it down than adapt. Wilkerson describes a United States clinging to dominance it no longer has, fighting the rise of a multipolar world with sanctions, bombs, and denial. The result, he warns, is not stability—but escalation on multiple fronts at once.

He points to something even more destabilizing: a fundamental transformation in how power operates. Warfare is changing. Economics are shifting from sea to land. Alliances are dissolving. And yet Washington continues to act as if nothing has changed—doubling down on outdated strategies while the rest of the world moves on without it.

Some of the most important things for all Americans to understand—especially those who may not already—are truths like this from Wilkerson about the United States’ global position: “We’ve created an enemy out of the whole planet—and now we’re shocked the world is pushing back.”

The United States is confronting a reality it refuses to face: the world is changing, and where that change is acknowledged, it is met not with adaptation but with resistance—fought “tooth and nail.” At home, the decay is just as severe. The country, as Wilkerson puts it, has been “damned for a generation,” with dysfunction now entrenched across its core institutions—from Congress to the Supreme Court. That internal fracture is no longer abstract; it carries the real potential for conflict, with multiple factions poised in a nation that has “more guns than people.” And all of this is unfolding at the worst possible moment—during a period of imperial decline—where, in his blunt assessment, this is precisely when you do not want incompetent leadership steering a nation losing ground to rising powers.

As Wilkerson mentioned, there is is the distinct possibility of a civil war, with Wilkerson saying, “You have the potential for a lot of different people out there on the streets—and we have more guns than people.”

I would add this: when some states seem determined to drag us back into the dark ages—stripping away rights, narrowing the horizon of what it means to be free—and when our national leadership speaks of little beyond funding the machinery of war, it forces a reckoning. It makes one confront the unthinkable as something increasingly possible.

A nation cannot endure when its parts move in opposite directions—when some push toward repression while others struggle toward dignity and survival. At a certain point, unity becomes a fiction we tell ourselves to avoid the harder truth: that what we call a country may already be fractured beyond repair.

And if that is the case, then the question is no longer whether we hold together, but whether breaking apart might be the only way to prevent something far worse from tearing us apart first.

On that not at home, the consequences are just as severe. Wilkerson outlines a country hollowed out by corruption, gripped by polarization, and increasingly incapable of governing itself. Institutions are eroding. Trust is collapsing. And in that vacuum, more extreme forces are organizing, arming, and preparing for confrontation.

This is not just a warning about war abroad.

It’s a warning about what happens when a declining power refuses to recognize its own decline—and drags the world down with it.

April 14, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | 1 Comment

Ceasefire with Iran: Don’t hold your breath – Israel and US lie all the time

Donald Trump deceived millions of American voters with false promises of ending the wars, stopping globalization and industrial revival, and now he has proven himself to be one of the biggest puppets of Israel.

Trump: The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has undergone what will be a very productive regime change! There will be no uranium enrichment, and the United States, in cooperation with Iran, will extract and remove all the deeply buried nuclear “dust”. (It is more than obvious that this ‘ceasefire’ is just a public relations gimmick and a plan to reset US and Israeli offensive operations.)

 Bruce K. Gagnon , 9 Apr 2026, https://space4peace.blogspot.com/2026/04/ceasefire-with-iran-dont-hold-your.html

• Iran says the United States has agreed to the following:

   1. A non-aggression commitment
   2. Continued Iranian control over the Strait of Hormuz
   3. Acceptance of uranium enrichment
   4. Lifting of all primary sanctions
   5. Lifting of all secondary sanctions
   6. Termination of all UN Security Council resolutions
   7. Termination of all Board of Governors resolutions
   8. Payment of reparations to Iran
   9. Withdrawal of US combat forces from the region
  10. Cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including against Hezbollah in Lebanon

• Axios, citing a White House official: The ceasefire will take effect as soon as Iran opens the Strait of Hormuz.
• Iran’s National Security Council: The agreement stipulates the lifting of all sanctions and the release of frozen Iranian assets abroad.  It is emphasized that this does not mean the end of the war, and Iran will only accept the end of the war when, considering the acceptance of Iran’s principles in the 10-article plan, its details are also finalized in negotiations.
• These negotiations will begin with complete distrust on Friday, April 10, in Islamabad, and Iran will allocate two weeks for these negotiations. 
• Greater Iran and the Origin of Civilizations: We did not abandon our allies in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq; this was a condition for a ceasefire in all these countries.

• Kan Hebrew Channel: If the agreement includes Hezbollah, we must burn the [Israeli] state down.
• During this two-week period, Israel will bolster its defenses, the United States will reinforce its forces, and the global economy will be revitalized. However, the negotiations could very well be a charade, as has happened before, with America launching a new offensive accompanied by assassinations. 
• There’s a saying in Farsi which says: “My eyes aren’t watering.” ‎من چشمم آب نمی‌خوره Which means: “I don’t think anything will come out of this.” But….if this truly does get implemented, this might be the biggest victory (for Iran) of all modern time.
• Donald Trump deceived millions of American voters with false promises of ending the wars, stopping globalization and industrial revival, and now he has proven himself to be one of the biggest puppets of Israel, the World Economic Forum and the Bilderberg Group. 

• Over 55 US lawmakers called for invoking the 25th Amendment after Trump threatened to destroy Iranian civilization. Former Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene called it “evil and madness.” Tucker Carlson urged military personnel to refuse orders; the Pope and UN Human Rights chief condemned threats against civilians as violations of international law. 
• Moscow and Beijing blocked a Bahrain-drafted Security Council resolution on Hormuz, with Russia’s envoy calling it a “greenlit aggression” that ignored the conflict’s root causes. The two powers submitted an alternative text calling for negotiated settlement. China’s representative said the vetoed draft would have “added fuel to the fire.”
• Around 10 AM today, Iran’s Lavan oil refinery facilities on Lavan Island were attack by the enemies. In response, Iran struck targets inside UAE & Kuwait. 
• Iran’s UN representative: Israel must adhere to the ceasefire in Lebanon; continued attacks will further complicate the situation and have dire consequences. 
• Lebanese Health Minister: Hospitals are overflowing with the injured and victims, and we have hundreds of martyrs and wounded throughout Lebanon as a result of the Israeli strikes. The raid that targeted Shamshtar occurred during a funeral procession, when the enemy bombed the place, resulting in the martyrdom of all those present. “Eternal Darkness” is the name given by Israel to the new aggression against Lebanon.
• Lebanese hospitals are appealing for blood donations due to the large number of injuries and deaths in the major zionist offensive.
• US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Let’s be clear, a ceasefire is a temporary pause. The US Secretary of Defense told US forces involved in the war against Iran: Stay prepared.
• Iran’s IRGC Navy warned ships near the Strait of Hormuz that they must obtain permission from the IRGC naval forces to pass, stating over radio that any vessel attempting to transit without authorization “will be destroyed,” according to a recording shared with The Wall Street Journal. 
• Trump: The United States will work closely with Iran, which we have determined has undergone what will be a very productive regime change! There will be no uranium enrichment, and the United States, in cooperation with Iran, will extract and remove all the deeply buried nuclear “dust”. (It is more than obvious that this ‘ceasefire’ is just a public relations gimmick and a plan to reset US and Israeli offensive operations.)
• Iranian media, quoting a high-ranking Iranian military source: We have begun a wave of attacks on US-allied countries in the region as a warning message to implement a ceasefire throughout the region, including Lebanon.
• Spain has called Israel’s continued attacks in Lebanon “unacceptable,” despite the recent U.S.–Iran two-week ceasefire. Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said all fronts, including Lebanon, must stop.
• Israeli main opposition leader Yair Lapid: There has never been such a political disaster in all of our history. Israel wasn’t even at the table when decisions were made about the core of our national security. Netanyahu failed politically, failed strategically, and did not meet a single goal he set himself. It will take years to repair the political and strategic damage caused by arrogance, negligence, and a lack of planning. Israeli Channel 12 reports from a source: Washington will ask Tehran to cancel the ballistic missile program.
• U.S. Vice President JD Vance: Trump “lacks patience” to make progress on everything related to Iran. If the Iranians do not act in good faith, they will discover that President Trump is not to be trifled with. 
• (Update): Iran has halted the passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz after Israel’s ceasefire violations against Lebanon — Fars.

April 14, 2026 Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics international, USA | Leave a comment