An opinion piece on American political reckoning and global recalibration
By Will Keys.
Introduction
The chickens are coming home to roost—loudly, publicly, and without apology. After decades of metastasising corruption, the United States, under President Donald J. Trump’s renewed leadership, is undergoing a profound transformation. The depth and breadth of political and bureaucratic criminality—much of it entrenched under the Clinton political machine and advanced by a pliant Democratic Party—has finally met its reckoning.
This is not just about Trump. It is about the return of a presidency focused on restoring sovereign authority, dismantling the Deep State, and reasserting American leadership on the world stage.
Clintonian Corruption and Australia’s Costly Mistake
Let’s start with the facts. Under Prime Ministers Julia Gillard (Labor) and Tony Abbott (Liberal), Australia funnelled hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars—close to $500 million AUD—into the Clinton Foundation, under the guise of HIV/AIDS research. This ‘donation’ was cloaked in benevolent intent, yet its utility and transparency remain widely disputed. Australian journalist Miranda Devine, now with the New York Post, exposed this transaction during her tenure at the Daily Telegraph.
To date, no comprehensive audit has publicly cleared this vast transfer of public funds. The Australian public were deceived. It’s a legacy of political naivety—or complicity—that haunts both major parties.
Albanese and Rudd: Nowhere to Hide
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former PM-turned-US Ambassador Kevin Rudd could not resist mocking Donald Trump during his political resurgence. Their comments—patronising at best, contemptuous at worst—were not just undiplomatic; they were strategically foolish. Today, they’re back-pedalling, dining on humble pie, and attempting to whitewash their earlier insults with forced diplomacy.
Six Months of Trump: Monumental Recalibration
In less than six months, the second Trump administration has delivered results that most modern governments would struggle to achieve in four years. It has been a masterclass in political clarity, forceful diplomacy, and economic reform.
– Foreign Policy Reset – The Trump White House has withdrawn from disastrous entanglements, notably washing its hands of the NATO-induced Ukraine war. Trump’s refusal to be drawn into an unwinnable European conflict has saved lives and resources. The US strategic strike on Iranian enrichment sites reaffirmed military precision and deterrence. As I write, peace, albeit an uneasy one, reigns in the Middle East.
Although he has received precious little recognition for it, he ended the recent Indo/Pakistani conflict very swiftly through deft but firm engagement with the leaders of both countries.
In Africa he has used American power to pressure the leaders of Rwanda and the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) into agreeing to a truce.
In global terms he has sent a strong signal to the world that America is back, and world peace underpins the country’s foreign policy agenda.
– Supreme Court Wins – A series of crucial rulings, including broad presidential immunity for official acts, have vindicated Trump’s legal battles. The Chevron deference doctrine, used for decades to empower unelected bureaucrats, has been overturned, restoring authority to elected legislators.
– Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) – Trump’s flagship domestic policy, passed by both houses of Congress, promises a rational mix of infrastructure investment, tax reform, and deregulation. It’s a sharp rebuke to Biden’s failed ‘Build Back Better’ plan, which was bloated, unworkable, and fiscally irresponsible.
Exposing the Deep State
FBI Director Kash Patel, hand-picked by Trump, has led an unprecedented purge of political corruption within federal law enforcement. While the Deep State isn’t entirely neutralised, its grip has loosened. Transparency, long an endangered species in Washington, is making a comeback.
The Biden administration—largely installed with the help of foreign interference and a corrupted electoral system—is now a shell. From the botched Afghanistan withdrawal to the Maidan coup in Ukraine, the Democrat establishment left a wake of destruction.
Worse, under Biden, fake driver’s licences were issued to illegal immigrants to facilitate fraudulent voting. These are not conspiracy theories—they are documented realities, outlined in Patel’s recent reports and supported by multiple whistleblowers.
Democrat Decline, Republican Resurgence
The Democrats are hemorrhaging support. Voter registration in swing states like Pennsylvania now favours the GOP, reversing trends that had held for more than a decade. The demographic tide is turning as blue-state policies collapse under their own weight.
Nowhere is this clearer than in California, a state teetering on the brink of economic and social dysfunction. Water restrictions, rising crime, homelessness, and delusional progressive policies are being exposed daily. Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass are poster children for failed leadership. It took federal intervention—Trump’s intervention—to impose basic common sense and unlock access to fresh water.
Hollywood, Media, and the Collapse of Narrative Control
The mainstream media is disintegrating. CNN’s ratings have collapsed. Once-influential publications like The Washington Post and The New York Times are hemorrhaging credibility. Hollywood, too, is on the ropes—its unholy alliance with CCP-linked investors is now public knowledge. Audiences are walking away from the preachy, partisan content. The silent majority has had enough.
A Word of Caution: Stay the Course
Historian Victor Davis Hanson, one of the few sober voices in American academia, urges caution. He warns the Trump Cabinet to avoid hubris, to ‘take a cold shower’, and stay focused. The Big Beautiful Bill is not a silver bullet; it will require ongoing stewardship to avoid falling into the same traps as its predecessors.
Most critically, Trump must continue to guide the European Union away from antagonism with Russia. The reality is this: Russia will win in Ukraine unless the West wants a third world war. Realpolitik, not rhetoric, must define the path forward.
Conclusion: A Historic Rebirth
The Trump presidency is more than a political comeback. It is a systemic correction. A bold declaration that American exceptionalism cannot be extinguished by bureaucracy, media lies, or globalist overreach. In just six months, the United States has gone from leaderless to resurgent. The fight is far from over—but for the first time in years, the odds are tilting back toward the Constitution, towards sovereignty, and toward truth.
Let the world take note.
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GGS
Will’s right about NATO pushing that war Errol – Marco Rubio has admitted it was a proxy war and the New York Times publicly interviewed the American generals who advised strategy from the side, amid mass armament of the Ukrainian army, long before the war started. In this regard in ‘first Trump’ the Ukrainian army quadrupled in size and, as he so often brags, he equipped them with Javelins. So he, as directed by the neocons contributed significantly, and is as guilty as anyone. Seems your mind is fixed so won’t give it to you chapter and verse – suggest you google Prof Jeffrey Sachs address to the EU Parliament – it’s all there – once again, Will Keys is one hundred percent correct on that score.
Thanks John, re Ukraine we seem to see eye to eye.
NATO did not “push the war.”
They helped Ukraine to PREPARE for a possible Russian invasion….Crimea style.
How right they were.
By your logic, any nation that arms itself or its friends against possible aggression by another is “pushing war.”
That makes no sense at all, as it means that no nation must even attempt to defend itself from an avowed and proven aggressor.
No doubt our Armchair Generallisimo Supremo Will Keys (aka Wilkies Circus), will disagree in his feverish attempts to pucker up to Putin.
Errol – how are we to engage you in discussion if you’re not open to doing the most basic research – Sachs’s address to the European Parliament, other Professors Mearsheimer and Diesen, Daniel Davies, Col MacGregor, Rachel Blevins, Lord Robert Kilkenny, Dominic Cummings, Ian Pound, Alistair Crome, Alexander Mercouris, Larry Johnson and a host of others, they’ll articulate the case better than anyone on this blog because they’ve been there on the ground and done proper research. The Spectator published a letter of mine in October 2016 warning that one more inch of NATO expansion eastwards and war would break out. Quite frankly any fool could have seen what was going to happen next and how it would end. (And we’re not talking yet about the hateful systematic persecution of Russians in the Donbas and Crimea by the fanatics running the Kiev regime, installed in power by the violent CIA-directed Maidan coup of 2014 – the so-called democratically elected government made it illegal to speak, read or write Russian, their native language, they closed their churches, they slaughtered 14,000 of them. On the point of the banned language, the fifth most spoken in the world, how do their children get educated, how do you explain to a doctor where it’s hurting, etc etc? That’s the other reason Moscow intervened – cavalry to the rescue. But, and this is important, they were happy and literally about to sign the peace proposals presented to them by Zelensky himself in Istanbul in 2022 when Boris Johnson, in league with the Queen of the Deep State, Victoria Nuland, ordered him not to sign and rather continue the war so as to defeat Russia and effect regime change in the Kremlin, the grand plan all along (articulated to, and approved by Bill Clinton in 1994, in direct contravention of the assurances made by the American, British and German governments to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1981. Yet another broken American promise. About as stupid as stupid gets because all they’ve accomplished is the destruction of Ukraine, galvanised the Russia-China union and entrenched Vladimir Putin as his country’s Winston Churchill enjoying the wholehearted support of 95% of his people.
Your diatribe was to be expected.
So too your insult and complete lack of manners – Hannes, this guy is a lowbrow with a hackneyed trope that does absolutely nothing to contribute to your blog – can’t you block him?
Yes John I’m all for robust debate but this constant barrage of personal insults is pointless and unpleasant.
I agree. When the person who writes an article calls all those who disagree with him ignorant, he must be challenged.
When called out, he repeats his contention that they are ignorant and resorts to childish acronyms to convey his disdain.
That is, it is hardly a “debate”.
So is calling people ignoramuses at every opportunity.
Hi John, you are spot on, I could not have articulated it better. Errol and Anthony shoot from the hip, making unwarranted ad hominem tu quoque statements that misinform. Igoramus et ignorabimus – “we do not know and will not know”. I admit I find it hard to suffer fools and these two ignoramusus are fools. I apologise to the general high calibre of this publication for the ignoramus et ignorabimus.
Well, well. So the stand-in circus act “articulates”.
Those who brook no point of view other than their own should not be surprised when theirs is challenged. If you debated instead of throwing childish acronyms about and tell others they are ignorant for not agreeing with you, you might get a better response.
Ignoramus = anyone who doesn’t share MAGA alternative facts.
Will, you have got to lighten up and realize there is reality and there is MAGA and QANONsense that has fractured the entire world including families.
Agreed!
Vladimir Putin is NOT the Winston Churchill of his people.
Rather he is every dictator who has tenaciously hung on to unbridled power through brute force, cunning, erosion of any semblance of fairness and democracy in the political system, patronage, rampant corruption that makes him worth upwards of $200 billion by some estimates and over $500 billion by others, which in either case places him in the top 5 richest people on the planet.
As an American, I agree with what you wrote. The timescale is pretty short to know how all this will work itself out in the long run, as the battle against the “deep state” is only just getting started. I think that it will take perhaps three or four conservative administrations to fully scale back the bureaucracy
Thanks John, re Ukraine we seem to see eye to eye.
Will, your entire paragraph on the perceived failures of my state of California can’t be further from the truth.
California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Yes, California not the USA. Meanwhile Australia comes in at number 13.
Trump right now is doing everything to destroy our economy by raiding farms and other entities that have historically utilized undocumented labor. I we didn’t do that, a head of lettuce would cost five bucks.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement have become ubiquitous in my county, one of the most affluent in the country
. Citizens are being detained along with the undocumented as this orgy of nazi-like operations by operatives in black balaclavas continues.
Yes, if Trump continues to let his jack booted thugs terrorize California’s population, resulting in widespread fear to the extent where farmworkers and those in the construction industry are not showing up for work, he will achieve his diabolical objective of destroying this hardworking state.
Hi Anthony,
Our grandparents were the original Rhodesian settlers and they purchased their land from the BSA Company. Rhodesian born and bred (near extinct) both my parents were Rhodesian born. Late formal education after dedicated para-military & police service in wartime. I understand disappointment, betrayal and detest mindless ignorance. We circumnavigated the globe many times (eight)and have friends in Orange County California. I can assure you that if you met me you would not question my education, knowledge, or committment to US traditional values. Anthony, you are parochial with a limited US perspective of the outside world.
If these words come across as ad hominem tu quoque then I apologise.
There you go…. never short of an aggrieved insult.
Anthony. How right you are.
Will Keys (strange how that chimes with “Wilkies Circus” of yesteryear.)
I reckon friend Will must be the last remaining clown of that circus.
GGS
Errol,
I miss Boswell Wilkie Circus, and am grateful to Will for outdoing the original clown cast.
Like Forrest Gump once so wisely said:
Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.
Will,
You write very eloquently.
However, Your tenuous hold on facts and the truth is disturbing and your righteous indignation at all things deemed anti Trump blindingly ignorant.
I live in the US. You obviously have scant understanding of the situation here.
And despite your please for no ad hominem attacks, you still liberally dish out GGS,s to people who have differing opinions.
Waiting for mine.
Anthony, If these words come across as ad hominem tu quoque then I apologise.
Anthony. We all know that Will Keys is very opinionated, always ready to dish out insults. Rather full of himself (did I say rather!!?).
Solves the world’s problems from his armchair and could build a fortress using his empty bottles.
Errol,
Are you perhaps confusing our countryman with Walter Mitty?
GGS.
Lol
ha ha ha ha ha
Errol, GGS
You and your acronyms, so childish.
Will – your article overstates Trump’s achievements in terms of global realpolitik – 1) his fundamental intellectual weakness is stark for all to see – without any frame of reference in the humanities, as is institutionalised from top to bottom throughout the USA, Trump relies for his information on the input of others – thing is he cannot distinguish the ‘good ones from the bad ones’ – as evidenced in the likes of Kellogg and Korilla, (not to mention Netanyahu), holding sway over the one bright star in his team, Tulsi Gabbard – see one flip flop after the other on Ukraine and the contrived bombing of Iran, where nothing substantial was achieved – despite his deceitful oratory affirming the “obliteration’ of facilities that were too far underground for his bunker bombs to have effect – this attack taking place moreover, during and despite his two week promise of ceasefire, so they could consider his offer – just another broken promise which underlines neither he nor the American government is remotely trustworthy (as any Rhodesian knows only too well)? 2) Said bombing of Iran has backfired profoundly for every number of reason, not least of all that Israel’s ‘iron dome’ of Patriot missiles, as in Ukraine, have proved inept against the more modern rocketry of both Russia and Iran; on that point the Americans have now expended too much of their weaponry on the Ukraine proxy war that they are down to only 25% of said-patriot missiles for their own defence, with Raytheon way too slow on reproduction, and that is the real reason the Americans have curtailed the arms supply to Ukraine; 3) his leadership shows no dent on the reckless asininity and behaviour of Messrs Starmer, Merz, Macron and Rutte – though I grant you generally he’s taking, not taken, the wind out of their sales as he flip flops so much, 4) as for his budget it takes the US borrowing deficit even further into dangerous, if not suicidal territory approaching $40 trillion where the annual bond interest payable exceeds the entire military budget of $1trillion (itself an absurdity); 5) as for his tariff threats China, Russia, et al and BRICS have called his bluff, and without fear – quite frankly, he has been humiliated and exhibited to the world that America, if anything, is weaker than ever before, and in the words of the brilliant geopolitical commentator, Alexander Mercouris, the USA is nearing its Suez Crisis moment on his watch. It’s a function of the catastrophic policies of previous American governments I grant you, including his first term, but my sense is the Deep State, those same people who said there were WMD’s in Iraq and now nukes in Iran, (and they weren’t) are still very powerful and running the show. The best I can give you on Trump is the jury is still out but my sense is he overestimated the power and clout of his country, not to mention the strength of the other major countries and the complexity of realpolitik and, in doing so, has exposed the USA as a paper tiger.
Hi John, yours is not my opinion, not close. As the Zen Master said, “we’ll see”.
I do think Trump’s handling of the Epstein files tells us the Deep State is alive and well and Israel call the shots.
Hi Hannes,
I don’t like the way DJT has handled the Epstein matter, but I still reserve judgement until I have all the facts. As for Israel calling the shots re Iran, we stand with Israel.
As if DJT gives a toss what Will likes or not.
Weasels,
Thank you. Trump’s relationship with Epstein will soon come to light. He was the senior player in that diabolical duo. MAGA has woken up at last to confront lies that cannot ever be put to bed. I eagerly await the naming of clients of any party involved in this demonic betrayal of young girls and women. Trump led the ring.
Anthony, you make ad hominem tu quoque allegations without evidence or decency. Informed discussion requiries ‘objectivity’ not mindless ‘subjectvity’. If you insist upon being an ignoramus, so be it.
Will,
MAGA has seen through Trump’s lies on the Epstein affair. They are rightfully calling for honest answers and only receiving lies and obfuscation.
They are tired of getting their intelligence insulted. Watch this space for resignations in the Justice Department perhaps even Pam Bindi or Kash Patel.
How do you arrive at the claim that my attacks on a convicted sexual felon are ad hominem?
Never mind, Anthony. Will Keys is the new incarnation of his roots in Wilkie’s Circus. We grew up laughing at the clowns in that circus…. now, lo and behold, we find at least one of them is still out there causing mirth. Step forward, Will Keys.
Will,
Given the choice between being an ignoramus and being Will Keys, choosing the former title is a no brainer.
And you’re right. Netanyahu is now the most powerful man in the world and the Jews have everyone cowering in fear of saying anything, however innocuous that will be interpreted as antibiotic and repotted to the new and improved Stasi.
Anthony, don’t talk like a fool.
That should have been antisemitic and not antibiotic. This post was written in half darkness in a tent on Mt. Whitney.
I stand by my foolish opinions.
His “military parade” was a window into just how sloppy and uninspiring US forces are.
Errool, your comments about US forces is contempuous. Now GGS.
If * you have ever participated in precision marching / parading /military drill, you will have giggled at what Trump was honoured with.
Sauntering along, dressing like a drunken stagger, out of step, chatting, chewing gum.
Even Trump was scathing and hugely disappointed.
When the US military puts its mind to it, such as with their war memorial guards, they are razor sharp.
That is what was expected by Trump, not the clown show that was on full display in front of the world.
Btw * As an armchair warrior ….have you????????????
GGS
So the answer is never. Thought so. When are you next performing in the Big Top, being a clown between the main acts?
Our drill instructors would have described the parade as a Shower if S***.
Trump’s little Tonka toy parade was poorly put together and must have made XI, Jong UN and Putin piss themselves with laughter and scorn.
I can’t imagine that the footmen were in lockstep, no pun intended with the organizers.
Since January 2025 when MAGA re entered the White House, daily events have closely resembled a garish and malevolent remake of The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Sometimes you talk sense, other times pure twaddle…..from an as yet unknown planet.
* Europe antagonises Russia. Really? What do you call an invasion of your neighbour?
* “Washing its hands of the NATO-induced Ukraine war.” Seriously?
Get real and stay out of that hot Australian sun; it tends to addle pontificators.
Errol, GGS.
Errol Chandler and Anthony Roberts are bad for this blog. The reason is that they both engage in PERSEVERATION. It means that when the reasons behind PERSISTENCE is lost, all that is left is PERSEVERATION. In other words ‘perseveration’ is persistence that is empty on logical reason.
Thank you, Comrade Keys.
I am sure the editor is experienced enough to recognise self-promotional flannel and waffle when he sees it.
Those who try to shut down voices that disagree with them are desperate to appear to be on top of their hobby-horse and will resort to any means possible to silence others. They want to retain their real or imagined position on the platform.
Now, by waffling about “perseveration”, he is explicitly saying that I and others are of unsound mind.
We know that Mr Putin is adept at silencing his critics by confining them to institutions and declaring them unstable, so it comes as no surprise that his mouthpiece attempts the same tactics and rallies others, such as the editor, to achieve his aims.
But as I said, I am sure the editor can recognise self-centred flannel when he sees it.
Like all such, they are only interested in self-preservation.
Errol, you are an ignoramus, GGS.
The editor has said that he is not happy with the insults he sees, implying that they should stop
Yet here we have Will going ahead full steam.
I guess it is out of a sense of frustration that the cracks in his ivory tower are widening.
Will,
MAGA is in full revolt against DJT. They have finally said fool me once
( in this case several hundred times) shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
I believe they are showing him that no matter how cunning you are, you can fool people some of the time but you can’t foll everyone all of the time.
The container of documents, photographs, video, audio recordings from secretly obtained situations will be revealed soon
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a letter from DJT to Epstein’. Take a look. Rupert Murdoch are friends as much as those two are capable of friendship.
Trump begged and cajoled Murdoch not to publish. Rupert is firstly the most ruthless newsman on the planet. He published, notwithstanding the fact that his scion Lachlan, sat with Trump at the World Cup of Soccer in Philadelphia last weekend as he tried to get him to kill the story. Lachlan, a clone of his ruthless dad, went ahead and published anyway.
btw, Trump stole a winners medal at the ceremony, and somehow managed to steal the original World Cup of Soccer winners trophy while poor Chelsea didn’t even get to touch the original.
This is not an American. Russia, please take him back.
GGS