The US will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its Declaration of Independence from Britain on Saturday, 4 July. In particular since the start of President Donald Trump‘s second term in office, the global power’s standing in Europe has diminished, as a glance at the commentaries confirms. The harder they fallJOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. The US’s long heyday is over, Mladina (Slovenia) posits: “In 2026, the American constitutional republic is looking more and more like a system in which the president wields almost monarchical power while the state is dominated by an alliance of political and business elites. Its political order is becoming ever more akin to the state-controlled capitalism of Russia and China. The US is the undisputed political and economic winner of the ‘long 20th century’. Yet the economic costs of this global supremacy are becoming increasingly unsustainable. The United States’ waning political legitimacy is seen as an almost inevitable harbinger of the decline of the Pax Americana.” Post-war model on its last legs The Insider (Russia) sees the world heading towards global chaos: “Even if someone ‘more reasonable’ from the perspective of traditional diplomacy were to hold the US presidency, a return to the model of the past 80 years would be impossible. The world is careening towards a state that feels like global chaos, and the current US administration is only accelerating this process. ... Until recently, we assumed that if a country abided by the rules, it would enjoy a more or less predictable future. If it broke them, a predictable backlash would follow. ... But now the very ‘architects’ of the rules are beginning to resort to direct violence.”