And kick all American bases out. Because giving an out-of-control, hostile power unlimited access to a country’s territory, political system, resources and culture is tantamount to national suicide.
The US is No One’s Ally: Disband NATO Now
Alon Mizrahi / The Mizrahi Perspective: Substack
(January 20, 2026) — Not a day goes by in Trump’s second term without a new threat against another country or part of the world: from Mexico and Spanish-speaking America to Iran, Gaza, Lebanon, and West Asia as a whole, from Canada to Greenland to Russia and the Arctic, and from South Africa all the way to Taiwan and China.
A quarter of the 21st century is already behind us, as well as over 500 years of unmitigated European, British, and, since the 20th century, mostly American imperialism, now cringingly embodied in its rawest, nakedest form in an American president who is a living, breathing display of everything that has been wrong with the West.
Yet while other civilizations and regions of the world already have organic, healthy resistance mechanisms against the new colonial push, NATO countries (plus Australia and New Zealand) remain, for the most part, paralyzed.
Just as they froze when faced with Israel’s historic barbarism in Palestine, they seem to just vacantly stare at the train headed their way, unable to muster the will to get up and move away from the track.
But the train is coming, and guarantees the destruction of their autonomy, or, potentially, their very existence: one cannot exaggerate the possible outcome of making a country’s institutions and norms seem utterly useless, which is what is in the process of happening to every Western country.
See, unlike his more polished predecessors, Trump does not understand subtlety; he only speaks and gets visible, demonstrable power, subjugation, and takeover.
Trump does not want the quiet reassurance of having Canada in the USA’s pocket in every meaningful way: he wants Canadians actually, directly manhandled by his ICE, and Canadian institutions turning into a global joke. In the same way, he doesn’t want Gaza run by the American satellite Israel, but demands direct control over its affairs.
Everything must be a brutal, vulgar spectacle. That’s Trump’s brand and creed.
We can call him a megalomaniac and bully all we want; without putting up an impenetrable wall of resistance to his pressure, all the indignation and verbalized hurt in the world will do naught to stop him and his barbarian hordes.
Under Trump, the US needs to be taught a lesson that will be as clear as the concrete humiliation and subjugation Trump seeks to impose. This can only be accomplished by stripping the US of tangible assets, reach, and power in a declaratory, openly visible way.
You defeat Trump by making him the victim of a humiliation spectacle of the kind he loves to subject others to, and you add a cold, calculated blow to his ability to perform to return the discourse to normalcy and realism.
There is a lot that can be done to counter American power in the world in a peaceful way, from changing the composition and protocol of the UNSC to denying American platforms and businesses access. The most urgent task NATO members (+Aus and NZ) have, though, which they should see to immediately, is to unfurl the camouflage that allows the US to freely operate as a supposed ally of Europe, Canada, and Australia, while working to destroy them.
These countries must, for their own survival, start helping their populations and cultures realize that the US is not an ally, but a formidable national threat.
This is the key and most important task now. Because, while being confused and unsure what to make of the US, Western systems cannot even begin to stage proper opposition and resistance. And the most prominent apparatus for sowing said confusion is NATO (and its Pacific offshoot, 5 Eyes), an ostensible defense pact designed to make every Western country laser-focused on any other threat in the world, real or fictional, except that posed by the USA.
Look away in every direction while the US occupies you, and gobbles up your will, sense of purpose, and life’s energy, as well as any material possession of note. That’s what NATO and 5 Eyes are designed to facilitate: the takeover of the West, not Russia, China, West Asia, or Africa
And the damage of NATO permitted to carry on existing is far more serious and severe than just the muddying of perspective: with the US given unlimited access to territory, population, and intelligence, it can use it in a very pragmatic military way to take down, or wreak havoc, on any emerging islands of resistance in the West.
This is not an allyship; it is an occupation.
The only crisp, direct, and Trump-fitted way to make it clear to both the US and their own populations that they are not open for hostile takeover is to bring down and cancel altogether the normative and legal architecture that lets the US pass as an overlord-ally.
And beyond the immensely important field of optics and perception, there is, as I’ve mentioned, a practical element to this that could actually be critical for survival, for no one should rule out the possibility that, under Trump, the US could use its military bases in Western countries for actual sabotage and violent takeover, or just to intimidate and blackmail politicians, institutions and figures of influence.
The very presence of US forces is enough to make all local politicians, anywhere, feel like they operate under the weight and dark shadow of a foreign empire, one any criticism of which is taboo (just like Israel, now isn’t that a convivial coincidence?).
The US is used to thinking and acting like it naturally owns the West, and is allowed by Manifest Destiny to take over any additional part of the world it sets its sights on. It is now the urgent job of Western people to make it clear to the US that none of this is true.
Start by disbanding NATO and 5 Eyes now, before American troops take over your parliaments. Make a stand and erect a barrier. The bully will turn away; he can’t handle an open challenge.
Note: It Is Not about Resources;
It’s about Exceptionalism and Sadism
If you’ve followed the Mizrahi Perspective for a while, you know that I have been very persistent with this angle. I don’t buy into the ‘resources‘ discourse: the colonial impulse is not about material possessions, but about other people and the very, very sick need the colonizer has to feel special, exceptional, and supreme. In other words, the colonizer has to constantly be reassured that they can do what you can’t, and best of all, they can do to you what you can’t do to them, or anybody else.
The US could buy or mine all the resources it needs like any normal country. It would have cost less than the insane military machine it maintains to steal everything.
But it is not about securing resources. It is about the need to feel exceptional. It is about showing the world (and spectacle is key here, as Trump demonstrates every minute of every day) that the US can do what other countries can’t. It is a ritual designed to celebrate the sadistic rush that comes from imposing something on people who don’t want it but are helpless to resist.
It is not and never has been about territory or resources. It is about exceptionalism and sadism. ‘Resources‘ is just the nice, capitalist way of marketing barbarism and cruelty.
Don’t Despair: Help Is on the Way
While the US can terrorize Denmark and Venezuela, it cannot do much to impress any serious world actor. China and Russia are not panicking over US imperial outreach: they know they cannot be touched. Iran stands strong, North Korea is unperturbed, and Muslim and African voices and cultures are finding their resistance voices.
The US is growing more desperate, and consequently more avaricious, yet despite all the fuckery and 4th-Reich vibes, actual US power and relevance in the world is undeniably diminishing, and will continue to do so.
Even in the West, and even in the US itself, the atmosphere of decay and collapse is strongly felt, and the majority of the people want nothing to do with colonial adventurism and are not energized by its false promise, even if they have no idea how to organize politically to have a system that truly represents them.
The system they do have was specifically designed to make them politically clueless and powerless.
What I’m saying is: what we’re seeing from the US is not the birth of a new global empire, but the deathbed palpitations of an old, out-of-touch and blind power in its final days.
Wherever the US meets resistance, it will fold, and its failures, defeats, and unbearable contradictions won’t take much longer to bring down this breathtakingly deformed political being.
Let’s not despair. Actually, we need to rejoice: the end is already visible. In fact, it is the fear of the great emasculating, humiliating rebalancing of world power that is the main driver of this latest imperial push.
