The USA’s latest puppet regime – the USA

The United States has spent decades perfecting the art of regime change. From Latin America to West Asia, it has overthrown governments, installed compliant leaders and crushed resistance – sometimes with military force, other times through economic warfare. Washington dictated the rules of a unipolar world – and for years, no one could challenge it.

But the tide has turned.

This time, the coup is not in Caracas, Tehran or Baghdad. It is happening in Washington DC. And the orchestrator is no foreign adversary but Elon Musk.

A dramatic photograph, taken on February 11, shows Musk standing in what many have begun calling his “courtroom” while President Donald Trump sat at the Resolute Desk, his presence seemingly reduced to that of a poker chip. The New York Times compared it to a “king’s court”.

In the days since Trump was sworn in, Musk has moved aggressively. The United States Agency for International Development, USAID, was shut down. The Consumer Protection Bureau is being dismantled. Career bureaucrats are being purged. Regulatory agencies – most of which were investigating Musk’s companies and business practices – were hollowed out. Financial systems were taken over by his new department of government efficiency, infamously called DOGE.

Musk’s donations and support for Trump were largely dismissed as political activism. But he did not lobby for power; he seized it. His “buyout offers” – thinly...

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