Cracks in the Facade: When Illusions Fail

From Trump’s economic fantasies to collapsing luxury myths and Singapore’s quiet warning, today’s reality check is long overdue, and the wreckage is impossible to ignore.

Good morning! It feels as if reality is finally swinging a wrecking ball through the Potemkin villages built by strongmen, marketers, and mythmakers alike.

We begin, fittingly, in Singapore, where Prime Minister Lawrence Wong delivered a speech that should be required reading for every American official clinging to the illusion of endless empire. In clea…