Afrasianet - Buthaina Aleeq - Throughout history, Arab and Islamic regimes have dealt with American lies and have been Washington's primary motivation to continue targeting the security of the region.

Since the founding of its daughters, the United States has been shaped by a stark paradox between rhetoric and practice. It presents itself to the world as the home of freedoms, democratic values, and the cradle of scientific and technological progress, but in reality it has often practiced the opposite of these values in a behavior that is to say the least based on deception and lying.

The Americans realized early on that power is not only based on weapons or money, but also on image and symbol, so they worked to create a soft face that would entice the people and lure them into the space of American influence.

As Noam Chomsky observes, the American media system "does not present the truth so much as it creates a false consensus about what the authority wants to believe," and Joseph Nye argues that America has "made others want what it wants," expressing the illusions into which Americans drown others who turn into breathless behind the mirage of the American dream, which in its essence hides the projects of control and control.

Today, it seems that American tyranny has reached its limits; the United States, in its Trumpian version, is no longer interested in beautifying its image as a role model, but is more concerned with projecting the face of the powerful autocrat, who relies on the tools of deception and coercion to impose his will, domination, and power over others.

One of the stark ironies of this political performance is that Donald Trump is not only seeking to impose influence, but also to impose concepts and norms: he sees the failure to award the Nobel Peace Prize as a personal insult, while announcing his intention to change the name of the US Department of Defense to the "War Department", claiming to have ended seven wars, when in fact he has started a war against Iran, encouraged the escalation of aggression in Gaza, threatened to "open the gates of hell" there, and publicly called for to ethnic cleansing by demanding the displacement of the residents of the Gaza Strip and turning it into a tourist area.

Trump, who claims to have "ended the wars," sends his planes to the shores of Venezuela, bombs fishermen's boats, and sets a prize for information about Venezuela's democratically elected president. He is the same one who said that if he were president, the Russia-Ukraine war would not have broken out, but he did not offer any real solution to it, but instead re-engaged in it more than his predecessor Biden, providing more weapons and information to Ukraine, and pushing countries to boycott Russian oil, in an escalation of a new economic war that threatens the global economy.

As for Afghanistan, the man who has long criticized Biden for his performance there has repeatedly warned of "bad things" that will happen if Washington does not grant Bagram the base, consecrating the same logic of political and military blackmail that he criticized in his opponents.

At home, the "man of peace" does not shy away from militarizing the American street, plunging the army and the National Guard into the face of citizens, which has contributed to deepening divisions within American society and striking at the image that his predecessors long sought to burnish: the image of America as the "homeland of refuge" and the "land of freedom," a freedom that today seems more false and deceptive than ever. 

All of this confirms that the "Trumpian" concept of peace is based on the United States of America being the ruler of the world, controlling the decisions of the peoples, and dominating the resources of countries.

In an article titled "America's Lies About the Middle East" by Robert Malley and Hussain Agha, Foreign Affairs magazine noted that "the conundrum of American politics is that its leaders know much, but they understand little."

Trump is clearly one of the presidents most fits this description. Sure, the man knows the capabilities of his country, but he does not understand the fact that every power has its limits and that all tyrants and tyrants throughout history have been driven by their tyranny to the path of decline and demise.

In the same article, the authors state that "over time, it becomes difficult to distinguish between the end of self-deception and the beginning of pretending to deceive others," which causes dictators to believe their illusions and sink into paranoia, thinking that what they wish for has become a reality. This is the case of Trump, who promoted the idea that he could solve wars with his own words, but was captivated by these illusions, and his failure ended up becoming more authoritarian and contradictory, as evidenced by his volatile and contradictory statements.

This conundrum in American politics is not new, as it has been addressed in numerous articles, including an article titled "How an Illusion Becomes a Lie," which argued that "lies lie at the heart of politics and diplomacy, but there are lies that are purported to serve the common good, and others that are used to get things done, even if they are ugly, violent, or heinous." In Trump's case, we are facing the worst of it: a combination of lies, deception and misunderstandings, coupled with the enormous destructive potential to kill life on Earth.

Possessing such capabilities under the authority of a reckless administration like Trump's makes countering these policies an existential issue for the entire world.  The future of the peoples of the earth has become tied to the ability to confront this dangerous and dominant situation in Washington, which requires a unified global position, the responsibility of which begins within the United States itself, where the American people are also beginning to suffer the consequences of policies based on lies, deception, and ignorance.

In our Arab region, the long experiences with successive American administrations since World War II have yielded nothing but lies, deception and double standards. Our regimes were supposed to have absorbed these lessons, but for the most part they are still in Washington's orbit, suppressing its people to its satisfaction, and selling illusions based on empty American promises, until they have become linked to their national security, and even their existence, to American projects that ultimately serve only Israel, while the real security of the region remains under the weight of the region's American hegemony.

Today, we find ourselves facing a new version of American deception. The US president presents his plan to stop the war in Gaza as a victory for the logic of peace, while the facts confirm that it is nothing but a plan to invest in killing, destruction, and hunger, with the aim of imposing the American-Israeli vision on the region.

The Arab and Islamic regimes' handling of American lies throughout history has been Washington's primary motivation to continue targeting the security of the region.

With the narcissistic Trump on the throne of lies and deception, acquiescing to his illusions and plans will lead to existential threats to the very national entities. The real fear is that the fate of our region will be decided between Tel Aviv and Washington, while the Arabs and Muslims will once again be bitten by the same hole, as they did after World War II when they left the task of determining their own destiny, while remaining mired in the illusions and deception of the old colonial powers.